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Poetry

A Consummate Professional

Anita Zaidi   Apr 15, 1998   interacts: 5

We all gather around her bed,
hugging each other, eyes brimming with tears.

Two Score and Ten

Asif Naqshbandi   Feb 11, 2005   interacts: 26

Books that have somehow changed my life...

Leaving so soon?

Amber Bokhari   Jun 3, 1998   interacts: 6

You want to soar free and I will let you go.

The Star or the Sail?

farrukh kamrani   Oct 11, 2006   interacts: 1

Holderlin says that the man has God’s most dangerous gift-language, which is given so that he may tell who he

The Rift

Saad Siddiqui   Nov 28, 2003   interacts: 8

Every time you turn around and walk away, the rift widens. One day, the image will lose itself in the

NYC

Ashwin Gandbhir   Jan 29, 2003   interacts: 20

Fifteen million souls haunt this limbo

Poetry

Camera

Aamir Ansari   Feb 14, 2003   interacts: 10

Smile, she says

Translation

Animal Language

Lok Raj   Oct 10, 2006   interacts: 5

Now they are about to issue ‘fatwa’ against me. They suspect that I have changed my religion. But this is

Short Story

Vandalism

sadaf bandeali   Jul 28, 2005   interacts: 16

'How do people walk on stars?' The question caught me off guard. Smiling my most enigmatic smile, I said, 'Bare

Short Story

Superseded

Anand Mahajan   Oct 12, 2007   interacts: 0

A divorced woman, suspects misfortunes to rob her again in a new turn in her life; this time it didn’t

From The Table

Temporal    Apr 16, 2002   interacts: 44

You can’t dance around or over me, cannot provoke me, arouse me or hear the scream of my soul.

Poetry

Letter from a Soldier

Bina Shah   Apr 14, 1999   interacts: 14

What would that soldier, captured by the Serbs, say?

Poetry

Weaving...Sailing - Two poems

Alberto Ceras   Jan 10, 2006   interacts: 6

My lips shrill
Against the tumult’s rise
Yet I am whole
A man still


Ilogs

sameena khan   Aug 24, 2003   interacts: 10

It helps you “read, write and think”. With such indulgence you can only derive pleasure……mental, emotional and intellectual and certainly

The Tiresome Transport Travesty

Ali Pracha   Apr 22, 2005   interacts: 15

Music that blared through the cheap speakers. The side panels were covered in scrawls of ballpoint ink complete with email

Poetry

Shehnai Wails

Temporal    Mar 19, 2004   interacts: 13

like in-laws they fight
over the usual suspects
how the times have changed
wails the shehnai


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