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Nipa Chowrangi

Shandana Minhas   May 8, 2008   interacts: 5

The neighbors couldn’t hear her screaming over the sound of the building’s generator, so that particular Sunday Aslam was able

Short Stories

Myanmar Disaster

kashkin dabruski   May 8, 2008   interacts: 3

“Dedicated to the people of Burma in their hour of need………but stands there, the government and its obstacles “!!!

Translations

Still Looking!

Tahera Sajid   May 3, 2008   interacts: 20

“No, no, no!” I had stormed out yesterday leaving my Mum baffled and Shabbi Auntie angry, when she brought in

I, Samurai

Sahir Shah   Apr 22, 2008   interacts: 6

my finger twitch
my neck hair rise
my throbbing pulse
my blistered foot
I'm full of life

Short Stories

Spinning the Public Beating and the Mob Justice

Sindhyar Talpur   Apr 8, 2008   interacts: 1

You really need to be a bad administrator or power usurper that people are so full of hatred for you

Socialist Yuppies 3: The Jihadi

Adam Khan   Mar 25, 2008   interacts: 61

o chore, yaar…… OYE! Look who is coming on the way… Khasi, meet my cousin from Braadford in Englaand, Faltu

Translations

Snowflake

MVJ Simon   Mar 17, 2008   interacts: 5

Sparkling in the sunshine
Pristine, white and pure
I am a snowflake there
High up above them all

Translations

Mosquito Music

Lokhi Menon   Mar 18, 2008   interacts: 2

That’s one form of music
That makes me quite sick,
whose notes are malaria,
dengue or filaria.

Short Stories

An Unnecessary Interview with History

Amer Nazir   Feb 25, 2008   interacts: 38

Tonight we have an unnecessary interview with ex- Chief Executive, ex- Chief of Army staff and soon to be the

Poetry

Between Sanity and Insanity

Amar Jaleel   Feb 9, 2008   interacts: 14

No one knows what kind of torture was perpetrated on Zen during his 15-day interrogation. After 15 days when he

Poetry

Chimera

Ayesha Umar   Feb 12, 2008   interacts: 11

They sipped the coffee quietly then she asked, “So what brings you here?” “You know very well.” He replied looking

Translations

Inside you

kashkin dabruski   Feb 18, 2008   interacts: 3

As colour drift apart from painter’s brush
Says the picture, I am inside you
As the ocean turns itself upside

Poetry

Dr. Bari's Toothache

Sanaullah Khan   Feb 12, 2008   interacts: 4

The maid was amazed, contrary to her master she had no regards for molar aches. “Wise men too have toothaches!”

Translations

Untitled

Feroz R Khan   Feb 9, 2008   interacts: 4

Forlorn we must die as we once lived
And no one shall speak of us in death
As we were

Translations

Targeted Taxi Drivers

Lokhi Menon   Feb 5, 2008   interacts: 7

Day passes and night creeps up over the city,
Suddenly the TV chatters “taxi drivers targeted in Mumbai”

I Thought I Heard You Laughing

kiran kiran   Feb 4, 2008   interacts: 10

Unlike most people I know, I don't believe in love at first sight. But the world being as mad as

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