Dark Places
Soysauce Mar 31, 2005 interacts: 15Helena’s story rekindled some age-old longing that had been put away in a back corner of my heart. A love I had shut out in
Down the Memory Lane
Ritu Mathur Mar 30, 2005 interacts: 4Today since morning, your cute face is flashing up in my mind every now and then. Your bright eyes, snub nose, shiny black hair and
Oh So Vicious
shyema khan Mar 25, 2005 interacts: 12She had instructed me to stay away from him because she really liked him. She was only joking about how he was the type that
Asoka
Zehra Rizvi Mar 23, 2005 interacts: 32
I’m sitting and rubbing my back, smiling.
I want it to hurt.
Corporal Punishment
Kinza Farhan Mar 22, 2005 interacts: 25The moment a child is admitted to school, he or she starts serving a sentence of corporal punishment and verbal abuse. No doubt, every child
Somebody’s Done For
Shehlah Zahiruddin Mar 19, 2005 interacts: 16I am very pleased today because all the servants of the house got a scolding. Look at me, I have never been scolded.
A Flight into Time
Nazar Khan Mar 15, 2005 interacts: 28
We fly over runway threshold, enter the runway and flare out at 30 feet. Then throttles get back to ’Idle’.
Half a Confession II
Temporal Mar 5, 2005 interacts: 6Body sponges, change of sheets, the general bull shit and I cannot help but smile -- what everyone prays for and dreams about -- I
The Covered Trucks
Harish Nambiar Mar 4, 2005 interacts: 30PART II - We left Vapi the next morning, March 3. We started out towards Nasik, back into Maharashtra. Nasik was a four hour ride
A Taste of Lahore
Ras Siddiqui Feb 23, 2005 interacts: 11Since lunch in Delhi was a big affair, the officially forced frugality at weddings in Pakistan was quite welcome, as bowls of chicken corn soup
Daughtering
Amrita Rajan Feb 21, 2005 interacts: 9I am afraid I will say things like I hate you and you killed my father to my mother if I see her again…
Deliciously Delhi
Ras Siddiqui Feb 18, 2005 interacts: 70Food and history are something that both Delhi and Lahore have in common.
My Mother, Myself
Samina Rizwan Feb 8, 2005 interacts: 9As an Air Force wife who saw her combat pilot husband through two wars and a highly charged flying career, my mother witnessed many fatal
SoulMate
Umair Mohsin Jan 14, 2005 interacts: 27There’s something about finding a soulmate. You just know what the other person is. You never have to explain yourself or even tell another about
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…
Sometimes…
Asif Naqshbandi Jan 10, 2005 interacts: 47A translation of Sahir Ludhiyanvi’s Urdu poem, “Kabhi Kabhi”
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