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Don Shultz

Mohammad A Shaikh   Sep 5, 2002   interacts: 23

He was a thin dangling creature nearing eighty

Faani Here Baaqi There

Kew    Aug 18, 1997   interacts: 3

From the Kew Continuum comes a eulogy for the late, great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

All The Way To Maine

Dilip DSouza   Sep 12, 2002   interacts: 30

How some Pakistani and Indian kids found out that the enemy has a face.

The Reflection In My Window

Salma Omar   Jul 2, 2008   interacts: 5

As he twisted her wrist, the little girl writhed in pain, tears welling in her eyes as she struggled to free her self. Her brother,

White

Tahera Sajid   Aug 14, 2007   interacts: 6

A lone tear escapes her eye. And burns a trail down my cheek.

Resurrection

Jawahara Saidullah   Jan 15, 2003   interacts: 9

That night he dreamt of her hands again. They threaded small, white buds of the queen of the night into long strands. And wove them

Forced Marriages in the UK

Tariq Ali   Dec 30, 2001   interacts: 41

Parents don’t listen to what their children want

Dust and Color

Anne Shamim   Jan 25, 1999   interacts: 19

From the world of glass and gray to a world of dust and color.

Don’t Shoot the Messenger

Shandana Minhas   Sep 1, 2006   interacts: 63

Did it really make sense to continuously invest belief into an enterprise that paid no dividends? Could a slaphappy PR job keep at bay the

A Courier With Urgent News

Saima Shah   Nov 14, 1998   interacts: 9

Out there, up there somewhere is tomorrow and tomorrow will make today okay

Tales From Yore

Jagmohan Chadha   Mar 12, 2003   interacts: 35

success in business

Unpoet

Temporal    Apr 14, 2005   interacts: 27

float and fall like flakes
one after another
in a suffocating embrace
to the ground
unloved and undead



Eqbal Ahmed - As I Knew Him

Pervez Hoodbhoy   May 27, 1999   interacts: 10

I had not heard of Eqbal Ahmad until I heard him speak in 1971 at an anti-war demonstration at MIT

Water Buffaloes

Shan Anwar   Mar 30, 1998   interacts: 26

...I could probably use a shave, but I’ve got on this outrageously expensive shirt from the A/X that makes up for any other visual short-comings.

Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road: A Review

Kanishq K Sethia   Sep 9, 1999   interacts: 5

the future of most Indians looked like hell

Basic Levels of Awareness

Rehan Rizvi   Jun 1, 2000   interacts: 17

...Do We Really Know What We Don’t?

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