Baghdad Lullaby II

Who is going to mourn the dead?

Translations

Kashmir

Let Kashmir speak, world don’t turn away
Its not just mist that we see in her eyes

Translations

Different Strokes

'I’m a Woman, No Goddess Am I'
'When Idols Fall'
'A Bedtime Story?'
'Night’s Lost Sleep'

Run Ayesha Run

Women are not built for speed

Suicide: My Salvation

Life: how we give up everything for it
How unfair it is to death
Silence, peace, freedom, yes death
Is what I want

To Hold Up the Floor

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

Reminisce

Our first entry in The Leafy Glade Inn’s Victorian Study, is one in which the author softly remembers people in

Advantage, Men

Not all men… are such perverts though. You still have a gentlemanly breed, at your neighborhood pharmacies, which unfailingly wrap

Satire

The 786 Cybercafé on Tariq Road (continued)

Karachi in the 1990s was a wasteland of failed opportunities; the salaried class was on its knees under the burden

Buddha of Rumtek

Black sun, briefly breached

A Flight into Time

We fly over runway threshold, enter the runway and flare out at 30 feet. Then throttles get back

Plays

Johnny Walker

Despite our re-assuring self-glorification about having one of the biggest and most vibrant cinemas in the world, film studies in

Our Mother

And together we stand as one before our mother. Our mother, who at times didn’t give enough and at other

Down the Memory Lane

Today since morning, your cute face is flashing up in my mind every now and then. Your bright eyes, snub

The Myth Of Three Words.

'Only if life had been so much blissful, I would have just sat and cried!”

Bapsi Sidhwa: From The Pakistani Bride to Earth

Bapsi Sidhwa is one of Pakistan’s most prominent English fiction writers. In 1991, Bapsi Sidhwa was the recipient