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The Girl from Napoli

Asif Naqshbandi   Apr 7, 2004   interacts: 48

Al Ghazzali said that it is impossible to describe the pleasures of orgasm to an impotent man no matter

Translations

The Falcon’s Hearth

Umair Raja   Dec 22, 2004   interacts: 103

'Speak! for your lips are free,' as a bird
Speak! if you don't, you'll never be heard

Truth Hurts

Hira Nabi   Sep 18, 2002   interacts: 80

Ironic. Our indigenous culture is now being imported.

Poetry

Pity

Paritosh Uttam   Feb 17, 2001   interacts: 98

Do you think anyone could be as happy as we are?

Translations

Illusion Begets Magic

Aisha Sarwari   Mar 26, 2001   interacts: 76

What they felt at that space and time

The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses

Subroto Roy   Dec 28, 2002   interacts: 33

Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art

A Conversation With Abdullah Hussein (Part One)

Rehan Ansari   Dec 26, 2000   interacts: 58

Udaas Naslein is a novel I have heard about as I would a rumour.

Plays

Habib Wali Mohammad

Anis Shakur   Sep 13, 2003   interacts: 27

He came to be known as the Taan Sen in his college.

Sometimes…

Asif Naqshbandi   Jan 10, 2005   interacts: 47

A translation of Sahir Ludhiyanvi’s Urdu poem, “Kabhi Kabhi”

Cactus Gas

Nadeem F Paracha   Aug 16, 2004   interacts: 67

Rajan. That’s what my alcoholic father used to scream every time the pathetic man wanted his trembling drags tensely

Translations

The Song of a Grasshopper Found Dried in a Textbook

Saeed Urrehman   Aug 25, 2001   interacts: 97

on a borrowed charpoy

Poetry

His Gift

Bina Shah   Sep 8, 1999   interacts: 63

He knew things without knowing how he knew them.

Flashbacks from School

Nazar Khan   Dec 17, 2003   interacts: 54

Those were also the days when we grew by an inch a month and the body chemistry was changing rapidly.

The Abu Ghraib Scandal: Who’s Shame is it?

Laila Kazmi   May 22, 2004   interacts: 99

As a Pakistani-American, it is especially difficult to watch this war between “good” and “evil.” On the one hand, our

Dude, Where’s My Reference Point?

Samina Shahidi   Feb 18, 2005   interacts: 56

The edge to Harold is that he affirms to us the mainstream perception of the Asian Ivy League quota buster.

For a few words of love

Saima Shah   Jan 3, 2001   interacts: 78

my god is better than yours

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