Karachi Dreams

a metropolis vast in size and tiny in the scope of its productivity

Bharati Mukherjee : The American Dreamer

‘The experience of cutting myself off from a biological homeland and settling in an adopted homeland that

Risky Routes and Rootless People

A dhaba on a desolate crossroad in Gujarat is the place this young Muslim boy, parents gone adrift in the

Memoirs

Roshanara Begum in Lahore Karachi ISLAAMABAD

So you think I can tempt a nun

Translations

London Targeted: Numbers Game

today’s mourning
in the wake of
yesterday’s jubilation
and the futility of
fragmenting one
into us and them

Translations

Unnoticed Invisibility

I am nothing more than a plain woman.
The one sitting next to you, that you never notice

The 20 best local pop albums … ever!

The production and creative qualities of VS:2 have helped it to sound as modern as anything done with the help

Basement

Don’t know where you came from and where you went afterwards. I only knew that my house was in your

Translations

Phoenix, Unqua, and Huma.

A whirling twirling in a trance
the three bagan to dance and prance

Second Letter to Uncle Sam

It is possible that women’s legs out here may be better than legs in your country but, uncle, no one

What is Wrong with Shahrukh Khan?

As an old time film-addict, I fear that the problem begins with the new Shah Rukh Khan image that we

Ismat Chughtai’s Autobiography -- A Transalation

Let her, said my father

Aurangzeb The Nude

Religions, Violence, Justice

The Allahabad I Knew

A customer was looking for Jacques Derrida’s works. He and the owner lamented Derrida’s death before launching into a passionate

Translating Ghalib - A Tribute, An Effort

On a cold December night, on the the shores of Lake Ontario...

Dusk

Dusk prays for me to transform. Out the pavement through the sliding doors of life into a crowded capsule of