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The Comfort Zone

Ali Riaz   Feb 6, 1998   interacts: 3

To its vast expanse
I am inexorably wed.

Standing in the Fields

Bina Shah   Apr 9, 2004   interacts: 11

The rest of the world wants to grow wings and fly
We only want to grow roots deep within the soil,
Where we belong.

Still Looking!

Tahera Sajid   May 3, 2008   interacts: 24

“No, no, no!” I had stormed out yesterday leaving my Mum baffled and Shabbi Auntie angry, when she brought in yet another rishta-seeking brigade.

Wonder

Omer Fayyaz   Dec 28, 2003   interacts: 4

‘I wonder how these stones reached here’, said the boy to his friend

Living Through a Revolution

Muhammad Tariq   Aug 31, 2007   interacts: 54

An account of my personal experiences in Iran as it went through a transition from a monarchy to an Islamic Republic

Nothing to Wear!

Anita Zaidi   Dec 27, 1998   interacts: 13

All these clothes and nothing to wear!

Basking in Controversy

Ali Hasan Cemendtaur   Jan 2, 2005   interacts: 3

'Suppressed Voices', a cultural program hosted by Friends of South Asia (FOSA) in December

Western Feminism and South Asian Women

Godot    Dec 30, 2004   interacts: 182

The gander that’s caught in New York cannot be cooked in Nowshehra

Fire Fly

Sadia Rauf   Oct 11, 2006   interacts: 10

Wrecking the semblance
You are it, not an uncanny resemblance

The Modern Bogeyman

Shandana Minhas   Nov 14, 2006   interacts: 28

Suited sadomasochists, persistent forces of nature, varied forms of organic degradation…our fascinations are becoming increasingly morbid. Instead of fearing nothing but God, we fear everything

Gardens of Stone

Feroz R Khan   Aug 26, 1999   interacts: 9

In memory of Kargil

What is it going to take to have a Clean Bombay?

Ajay Kamalakaran   Mar 6, 2007   interacts: 94

If we are to ever look civilized in the eyes of the world, it has to start with ensuring that our major cities are clean.

Black Longings

Farzana Versey   Feb 8, 2005   interacts: 31

'Will you kiss me, please?' she pleaded. Are the desires and dreams of the disabled all bleak? I had spoken to two blind people to

Local Knowledge, Capital, and Social Change in the Age of Globalization

Rohit Chopra   Sep 20, 2007   interacts: 3

Whether it is selling vegetables or tourism, the local agent does not, by definition, possess anything that cannot be brought from elsewhere in the globe.

Karachi Burning

Asif Memon   Jun 11, 2004   interacts: 8

I yearn for the day when this unholy mess and the blood shed will stop.

I Cheat Therefore I Am

Suds Jiff   Sep 21, 1998   interacts: 25

Our most cherished phone calls home are from some stolen calling card

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