Poetry

Hidden Desires

Oh, chaste wither away! And set her lust free--
held incarcerated, long ago a romance ceased to be
to whisper

The King’s Gambit: Chapter 4 (The Aviator)

The seventy-two year old Christian Palestinian was confidently sitting at the head of the most powerful group of Muslim men

Narrative

Socialist Yuppies 3: The Jihadi

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

Other Side of Rabbi Shergill

Punjabi pop singer Rabbi Shergill - the Bullah ke Jaane fame - talks about peace, politics, his dreams,

Death

she died long before her life ended

Jihad and Chicken Pox

I was hardly thirteen and had two problems. Firstly, I was continuously embarrassed by the hard thing in my thighs

Poetry

Last Kiss

frozen in time as life goes by

Baghdad Lullaby

They say the price of war is never cheap ...

Narrative

Gulp Fiction

Magazines I’d like to see: Paranoid 911, Talwaar Times, Cannibalism Today, HardOn

Beating the Donkey

The Minister roared from the ground

From The Table

You can’t dance around or over me, cannot provoke me, arouse me or hear the scream of my soul.

Novellete

Sehra

Sehra ki bheegi ret meN, maine likha aawaargi.... I was puzzled. The words made no sense to me. Sehra always

Anarkali Bazaar

Ever since she could remember, Mari felt there was no other place in the world quite like Anarkali Bazaar. Located

Translation

Parveen and Asad

She is considered by many to be the best Urdu poet of this generation. She is considered by

Dystopia: After the cliché

Dystopia. The opposite of Utopia. Or a Utopia gone bad. An idea and vision of a perfect world getting lost

Short Story

Baby’s Room

She got up then, and laughed out aloud, her laughter drowning out the baby’s cries. As the baby heard the