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Articles with tag: struggle

Revival of Passive Resistance in Indian Commercial Cinema

Vaibhav Jain   Feb 7, 2008

That non-violence is an integral and a much respected part of our culture, seems to have slowly escaped our memory.

Mukhtaran Mai vs. the Rest of Pakistan

naeem sadiq   Jun 14, 2005   interacts: 281

There are examples in history where armies were dispatched to protect the honour of a single woman. There is however no example of a single woman dispatching herself to fight against an army of institutions that collectively represent an entire countr

The Real Blasphemy

Bina Shah   Nov 17, 2004   interacts: 345

Van Gogh had received death threats for directing a film that accused Islam of condoning violence against women... there is something in the subject that seems to arouse the basest of passions in the human heart; the need to annihilate the person who says

The Fight

Syed Ali   Sep 18, 2004   interacts: 10

Hai yeh jang zindagi ki mot say
Man will find a reason to live
In the most desolate desert of life
There will always be a worthy fight


Bus

Sucheta Potnis   Mar 30, 2004   interacts: 45

What is it, she wondered, her eyes still closed. ’Feels like an elbow’ - the answer came up in her mind. ’Maybe the owner of the elbow doesn’t know it is there’, she thought.

Warped

Samir Fayaz   Nov 16, 2003   interacts: 3

Breathing in and out still alive without a doubt between truths true to themselves trying hard not to warp

Mutant Muslims

Abdullah Arian   May 9, 2003   interacts: 27

Another case of art imitating life?

Midnight's Knights?

Farzana Versey   Dec 29, 2002   interacts: 152

Both Rushdie and Naipaul belong to the streets. They are clinging to roots they have no claims over.

Siachen Theatre

Mohammad A Shaikh   Oct 18, 2002   interacts: 72

“They died on the ice-capped peaks of Siachin, 22,000 ft. above ground!

Whose Iqbal — Ours or Theirs?

Zafar Anjum   Mar 11, 2002   interacts: 182

As if I am the traveler as well as the destination itself

At Your Table: Gluttony

Jawahara Saidullah   Sep 1, 2000   interacts: 13

I follow visions of food that turn to dust and ashes in my mouth

Threads (Part I)

Star Marlboro   Jun 18, 1999   interacts: 15

He wasn’t that bad, for a desi man.

Evil Spirits Travel in Straight Lines

Sheldon Pacotti   Oct 19, 1998   interacts: 3

Two French scientists go to Senegal to fight a resistant strain of malaria.

Incantation

Sheldon Pacotti   Jun 29, 1998   interacts: 3

Where intelligence can be enhanced with expensive pharmaceuticals, a poor boy needs an alternative medicine

A Consummate Professional

Anita Zaidi   Apr 15, 1998   interacts: 5

We all gather around her bed,
hugging each other, eyes brimming with tears.

The Bitter Taste of Milk: A Novel

Quinton Zondervan   Mar 18, 1998   interacts: 3

Chowk showcases the work of a young writer with the weekly serialization of his first novel

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