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Under the Hill (part 1)

Abdullah Arian   Mar 10, 2003   interacts: 8

Do not enter, for you may not like what you will find...

Dusk

Ozer Khalid   May 12, 2005   interacts: 164

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

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Chowk - Ek Katha

Concerned    Aug 14, 2001   interacts: 38

the year was 2001 and a farangi would pop-in with some shrills ...

The Way We Were

Revathy Gopal   Apr 25, 2004   interacts: 14

Hearing Paul McCartney sing “Yesterday” recently, I was surprised to find my eyes moist. It’s a long time since any

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Squeamish in the Name of Science

Bina Shah   Sep 11, 1998   interacts: 8

Refuting the great Desi Dream

The Gray Cotton Shawl

Hamidah Hemani   Nov 21, 2002   interacts: 22

Kashmira is the bastard child of Pakeezah and Indir.

Translations

Victory?

Temporal    Feb 1, 2003   interacts: 25

death's victory, death's defeat

Translations

Last Kiss

Hussain Burhani   Jan 15, 2001   interacts: 54

frozen in time as life goes by

Translations

March on! Fellow Robots and Cyborgs!

Udayakumar    Nov 21, 1998   interacts: 17

We are the technocratic power barons ... And anyone human is a clear moron!

The Spell of Winter

Ibrahim M Khalil   Sep 14, 2003   interacts: 4

poem on winter

Poetry

The Sufi Tarot Card Reader

Rakshanda Khan   Jan 1, 2008   interacts: 12

‘Hello! Would you like a reading?’ he asked, shuffling the cards with a flourish, his round, bald head settling into

Poetry

The Disturbed

Ayesha Umar   Dec 11, 2007   interacts: 20

“Written words are dead letters… I am sick of writing; I want to speak. It feels good when your voice

Poetry

The Thirteenth Hour

Faiza Hussain   Feb 2, 2004   interacts: 19

She could never survive without me; she could not withstand my trials and tribulations, she must leave before I make

Times to Come...

sameena khan   Jan 4, 2004   interacts: 16

The non-conformists who retained their attraction for the opposite sex were subjected to derogatory and condescending looks; their families disowned

The Skeletons who would be People

Shandana Minhas   May 17, 2000   interacts: 15

Ayesha came flying into the room like an Indian projectile

My Summer of ’69

ahmad hayat   Jun 20, 2006   interacts: 82

It all happened three years ago, not quite a long period, but to me it seems like it happened, perhaps,

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