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His Hurry

Hamidah Hemani   Aug 12, 2002   interacts: 69

I had my gut punched for being brown

Roshanara Begum in Lahore Karachi ISLAAMABAD

Rehan Ansari   Jun 21, 2001   interacts: 18

So you think I can tempt a nun

Hazrat Khansaa

zainab siddique   Jul 22, 2005   interacts: 41

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

More Tales of Sufi Wisdom

Asif Naqshbandi   May 22, 2005   interacts: 44

Onlookers were amazed, the venerable old Sufi kneeling next to the stray dog

The Aftergod

Nadeem F Paracha   Jun 10, 2005   interacts: 49

Lucifer, kneeling in front of God: And it will be done, my Lord. Detonates a massive anti-matter bomb: And away

The Rock Star and the Mullahs

Bina Shah   Jul 9, 2004   interacts: 51

Salman Ahmed is a man on a mission: to challenge Pakistan’s hardline mullahs on why they believe music is not

Sehra

Anil Kala   Aug 31, 2006   interacts: 19

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

An Evolving Conversation

Saad Shafqat   Feb 5, 1999   interacts: 25

A One-Act Play on the topic of biological evolution

The Corrupted Daughter

Fakhra Hassan   May 7, 2004   interacts: 31

What makes us corrupt? I sometimes wonder whether it is related to the awareness of having nothing or all. She

Bharat Builders - A One Act Play

Udayakumar    Sep 1, 1999   interacts: 6

As the people of Bharat flee for their lives, the monkeys’ pursue them with greater vigor

Anushakthi Amma

Udayakumar    Sep 21, 2004   interacts: 18

It is year 2015. The Kalankulam Nuclear Power and Bomb Project (KNPBP) has been functioning since 2007. The farming villages,

To Hold Up the Floor

Kyla Pasha   Nov 16, 2005   interacts: 2

How gently you knock when your blood
courses underneath, can you teach me that?

No Choice But This

Sheela Jaywant   Aug 29, 2007   interacts: 3

A Three Act Play ... what does a father do for a son paralysed neck down...

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