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Can We Write An English Ghazal (or Stack)?

I believe, by its nature English appears to be not lending itself very well to the poetic form of a Ghazal. On the other hand, forms such as Sonnet, which are even more complicated, had been so successfully used by the great masters of English poetry.

An Encounter with Green Zone Living

In every person there is a centre and at the core of this centre is the green zone.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Margaret Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in it.

Obama's 100 Days of Presidency

Wipe off that smile please,
Your pleasant face does not excite me
Any more.

Living Together

Is it for taking that we give?
Is it for living that we live?
The question remains in our brain
And we look at it but do not see.

God of Many Needs

I am infinite
I am a god;
Self-sufficient
Creator
Shaper
Destroyer

Creepy Chemicals

This Holiday season, toys containing harmful phthalates, which are known endocrine disruptors, will fill up the shelve space in the markets.

Ridiculing Religion or Religion of Ridicule

One leaves the theater with a strong sense that Bill Maher is rallying the atheists in a battle cry.

The God Delusion

In protest of all religio-zealots, I am bringing to attention of all, the work of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion".

Bihar & Louisiana: A Poem

You are not God,
Not even half God.
Nor Poseidon or Neptune.
Why this bloody ruin?

Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays

"woh koh-kun to naheeN tha leikin
karree chatanouN se larr chuka hei
woh thhak chuka tha aur us ka teisha
usi ke seenay mein garr chuka hei" - Ahmed Faraz

Global Warming: Green with Controversy

Its effects will happen 30 years down the road, and then you say, "Okay, do something about it."

Mahboba Andyar: A Poem

Andyar, an Olympic aspirant is gone missing;
Sole Afghan woman sprinter slated for Beijing.
Andyar, A rising spirit, a brave soul,
Pride of a nation, an archetypal role.

Diabetes: Wrestling with a Twenty-First Century Monster

“Half of world’s population at risk of diabetes by end of next decade.� This disorder is encroaching on the traditional confines of age, ethnicity, and geography—in particular AGE.

The Cruel Expulsions

Reaction to “Twenty Three Students Expelled From Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad�

Paper Trail

To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but at a cost far greater than that of electricity.

Logotherapy: Humanism In Psychiatry

The heart has reasons that reason does not know ... A reflection on Victor Frankl’s “The Unheard Cry for Meaning�

Hope of Despair

With this news calamitous
With thus murder heinous
My country falling to pieces

A Scene

The horse without the rider
Baby without the mother
Not one chasing the other
Sitting silently - over the ruins

Mutaal Mooquin

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