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Poetry

The Healing Heart

FouzKhalid Khan   Mar 28, 2009   interacts: 2

I could not wait to let the show
Get started and enthrall us more.
But fate had marked me for

Poetry

Living Together

Mutaal Mooquin   Mar 28, 2009   interacts: 26

Is it for taking that we give?
Is it for living that we live?
The question remains in our brain

Poetry

Bequeath the Rose That Beareth the Thorn

Anum Ali   Mar 28, 2009   interacts: 3

Not fragrance, not beauty
Or a dew drop's fun.
A simple vow to guard
Instead

Short Story

My November Rain

Hina SajidKhan   Mar 23, 2009   interacts: 79

One's personality could be judged by choice of tea. “Light� for the kind, shy girl and “Strong� for the ambitious

Opinion

The Tablighi and the Doctor Hop a One-Way Plane

Omer Aijazi   Mar 13, 2009   interacts: 36

It just doesn’t seem right when uncles and aunties argue in their jaded accents that the country is imploding -

Narrative

My Failed Independence

Ali Rizvi   Mar 11, 2009   interacts: 1

It was raining. It was too cold, with every drop, I kept thinking. What was I doing here? Here in

Narrative

White Bride

Prashant Bhatt   Mar 8, 2009   interacts: 5

They called it the ‘White Bride of the Mediterranean’ and it is still one of the most charming and peaceful

Short Story

Speechless

Amber Bokhari   Mar 19, 2009   interacts: 44

I am thinking of him tonight and the universe seems to mourn the death of our love. I don’t talk

Short Story

Izzatdar - The Respected

Khalid Bhatti   Mar 18, 2009   interacts: 43

They beat her up badly, and decided that she be married in the first instance after her iddat of three

Poetry

Insha'Allah: An Evening Walk in the Time of Terror

Sankrant Sanu   Mar 10, 2009   interacts: 9

Ma! Terror reigns In each corner. Every criminal Has armed himself Using the name of Allah. Or if not that-Freedom.

Poetry

God of Many Needs

Mutaal Mooquin   Mar 7, 2009   interacts: 51

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

Poetry

Al-Aah: The Lover's Sigh

Saima Shah   Feb 27, 2009   interacts: 99

They have tried hard to tell me you don't exist,
That you are a figment of my imagination
And what

Narrative

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not...

Amber Bokhari   Feb 10, 2009   interacts: 27

What are we doing? Here we are spending most of our time together. Endless hours spent talking about

Short Story

The Smile of Dinah

Ayesha Umar   Feb 2, 2009   interacts: 6

She seems gazing at me with a mockingly triumphant smile, head drenched in blood, eyes fixed upon me as if

Narrative

In the Gallery Of Pakistan

Nikhat Rasool   Feb 4, 2009   interacts: 28

What had happened here? All those pictures were mutilated as if some anti-art psychopath was unleashed. There was blood, hate,

Short Story

A Third View

Anand Mahajan   Jan 31, 2009   interacts: 2

Bendre had come to Mumbai to see his son. Suddenly, a Marathi movement against north Indians in Mumbai rose to

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