Articles with tag: woman
Black Pencils
Fatima Mirza Aug 15, 2008 interacts: 13jehad in a woman?
daggers in a jar full of berry-nectar
pleasant as honey-sugar
ordinary, crowd senses as usual.
Bionic Woman
Saroop Gul Jul 8, 2008 interacts: 13The corporate woman is such a powerful and inspiring symbol when you are studying. It’s a realization you get later that a married working woman is a warrior.
It's ME on Both Sides!
Asra Nadeem Jan 24, 2008 interacts: 51I was told that my dad had been by my mother's side when I was born but left only after he found out that his child was a girl.
Mukhtar Mai's December 11th Fundraiser in Sacramento
Ras Siddiqui Nov 13, 2007 interacts: 39This effort is not about dwelling on what already happened but what's possible; to change the future of some girls and women in Southern Punjab.
Sumera Jawad: The Excavated Linearity
Nadeem Alam Nov 10, 2007 interacts: 1Sumera, through her brush, tries to explore the true image of contemporary woman by exhuming the historical representation of the South Asian woman.
This Is For The Men Who'll Roll Their Eyes
Sidra Omer Jul 20, 2007 interacts: 154I’m waiting for the day when the word feminism will not be a synonym for extremism.
Women's Image and Imagery
Emma Alam Jul 19, 2007 interacts: 2Sumera Jawad has excavated with her brush, the buried history by unveiling the “image” of women.
Window Shopping
Maria Amir Jun 18, 2007 interacts: 3Since the female/object in question is not really required to speak or profess her opinions during the proceedings it allows her free reign to watch at will.
Soaps Sans Sanity!
Emma Alam Sep 1, 2006 interacts: 7In every tale, a woman protagonist is dominating and manipulating others consistently and her counterpart man is bound to obey her in each matter. Male characters sit idly at home all the daylong, busy in resolving domestic disputes.
The Disappearances of a Woman
Anand Mahajan Aug 16, 2006 interacts: 6The sacred fire of Havankunda near the altar, the recital of Mantras by the Pundit, and a segue of film songs played through loud speaker in marriage ceremonies, always brought an ecstatic enthusiasm to Nimmi...
Ashiana-e-Ali
Rezwan Bajwa Aug 21, 2005 interacts: 19Mohsin bhai retired from the military service many years ago with the rank of Colonel. He must be approaching seventy now but what a spirited man I thought. Still going strong. The will to live, to accumulate wealth.
The First or the Last Letter
Amber Bokhari May 29, 2005 interacts: 24I have considered what will I do with you and what will I do without you? I guess it is time that I find an answer to one of these questions and leave the other alone.
Sultan Mints
Nadeem F Paracha May 12, 2005 interacts: 33Yes, sir, she sure felt like living in a pornographic film. A film made by sex fanatics.
Two Poems: Attention Please and Say What?
Fakhra Hassan Apr 29, 2005 interacts: 25'Take off your veil, woman!
you are drawing too much attention
Can you veil yourself without the veil?
Reveal without being revealed?'
Premala ka Pyar
Madeha Chaudry Jan 12, 2005 interacts: 13She waited with patient resoluteness for the rising sun as he slept with his fingers entwined deeply in her hair…
Bharati Mukherjee : The American Dreamer
Zeynab Ali Jan 11, 2005 interacts: 94‘The experience of cutting myself off from a biological homeland and settling in an adopted homeland that is not always welcoming to its dark-complexioned citizens has tested me as a person but it has made me the writer I am today.’
The Three Queens
Revathy Gopal Aug 10, 2004 interacts: 10My mother was her mother’s slave. And her mother was queen. Who was my father? I do not know. It was not important... As worshippers of the old religion, of our mother goddess, we understand that women are the subtle rivers that carry the world forw
Guide
Kyla Pasha Jul 7, 2004 interacts: 32Where are you going?
It’s too gray for blood here
and you are far,
far too quiet.
The Rain
Hamid Mahmood May 19, 2004 interacts: 10In this small, isolated village, with illiterate farmers, Suraiya found life for the first time in her life. She understood that life was not all about snatching whatever little others have, but giving whatever you could share.
In a Glass of Red Wine
Zia Ghory Feb 17, 2004 interacts: 16I bend down and pick up the largest, the brightest shard of glass from the glittering gems by my feet. I can see the shadow of red gleaming along its edges. Definitely a sign. In each piece of glass I am someone else. Every reflection of me is a reflectio
The Thirteenth Hour
Faiza Hussain Feb 2, 2004 interacts: 19She could never survive without me; she could not withstand my trials and tribulations, she must leave before I make my final exit.
