The Nylon Descent

The rocket under my seat fired. My seat was catapulted out of the aircraft at a high speed

Indian Classical Music in Lahore

The Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) in its desire to spread its

Acidity - Novellete Part III (final)

A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and

Translations

Love Song

Some apples, a sudden sunset, the visiting flu, a poem or two

An Alternative Spelling of Eed

Ibrahim snatched the boy out of his mother’s arm and hurried up the hill. Suddenly, he was told by the

First Letter To Uncle Sam

I had long wanted to translate these letters into English ... What we have here is vintage Manto.

Prudent Rosy Knew My Vital Signs

There are other men too…thousands… passionate… but smoldering like soaked wood… plenty of smoke to burn others eyes but not

Poetry

Good-Riddance

Dukkhi chamar was sweeping and his wife, Jhuria, was busy putting the cow-dung on the walls.

Plays

Parveen Babi Passed Away

Parveen was a glamorous actress who brought charm and unique attraction to the Bollywood film screen. The first time I

Memoirs

Hazrat Khansaa

Khansaa’s (R.A.) poetry has its own value and her poetical genius has always been acknowledged not only during her life

Absent in the Spring

There seldom was any sympathy - but of humiliation there was no shortage.

Satire

The King’s Gambit: Chapter 1 (The Immigrant)

Mister Prime Minister, you will start World War III

Loves loved {some not so loved}

My future has been flirting with his past

Poetry

Broken Stones

I had forgotten that my mother was a Hindu. They had changed her name from Savita Damle to Salma Khan.

Sargodha & Migs

But the skyline of Sargodha would always remember the roars and thunders of those quaint Chinese birds

Documenting the Pain of 1984

The film Amu attempts to delineate the trauma that haunts the children whose lives are forever wounded by communal riots