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Sunshine, Smiles and Flowers

Raiya Hashmi   Jun 26, 2007   interacts: 4

A small rectangular album fell in my lap as I pulled out the dusty box resting in the innermost corner

Full Moon on the Ganges

Rebecca R Kose   Feb 17, 1999   interacts: 21

Night time on a cremation ground, among the bones and the spirits.

Poetry

Broken Stones

Farzana Versey   Dec 5, 2003   interacts: 76

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

Translations

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


Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road: A Review

Kanishq K Sethia   Sep 9, 1999   interacts: 5

the future of most Indians looked like hell

To Love or to Like?

Temporal    Oct 15, 2003   interacts: 44

Cross gender and cross generation friendship is an under explored subject in literature and in movies. Yes, we have Sugar

Translations

Kufa upon Euphrates

Temporal    Jan 11, 2003   interacts: 34

dusty words, we should, but learn not

Translations

Cadburys, Pickles, and The Red Stuff

N Khan   Mar 30, 2001   interacts: 9

bodies like tubs of lard

Miscued Doldrums; The Saga Revisited, The Feud Recreated

Babar Hashmi   May 24, 2003   interacts: 49

The age-old anti-Pak syndrome grips dejected Indian musicians...

Napier’s Bride

Zadig    Sep 5, 1999   interacts: 7

How much more shall ye bleed
How much more shall ye suffer


Story of the Night

Fahd Raza   Jul 3, 2006   interacts: 6

They had known each other forever, and they loved each other more than any family ever could. Love sometimes transcends

Sargodha & Migs

Nazar Khan   Oct 19, 2003   interacts: 79

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

The Bulletin Board of a Believer

A Believer   Jan 27, 1998   interacts: 3

I do not define myself as an Agnostic simply because I do not know enough to be sure of being

Poetry

Common Things

Samina Wahid   Aug 6, 2002   interacts: 73

When I first thought of visiting Heera Mandi

Translations

Of No Importance

kashkin dabruski   Oct 21, 2007   interacts: 4

I need to move,
To some other place
Away from all this mayhem

Translations

Poems: There is No Way & After the Rain

mehr yaqoob   May 6, 2005   interacts: 2

And around me,
silently
life packs up
and leaves.


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