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Articles with tag: Doubt

Mother Teresa’s Moment of Truth

Mohammad Gill   Sep 4, 2007   interacts: 98

Soon afterwards the doubts and skepticism, not about her missionary work but her faith, began to assail her mind and lasted until her death.

anti-depressant

Fatimah Ihsan   Jun 23, 2005   interacts: 34

come give me little deaths
stroke my pain
silence will come
encore


Sharded Past

Harish Nambiar   Dec 21, 2004   interacts: 10

When guests go
And I return to me
I’ll cure the hangover

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 was searching for someone within herself, someone who was there, yet missing or hiding.

Doubt Reason

Shahab Riazi   Jul 27, 2003   interacts: 5

Swaying her hips for all beings, while deciding, not to be

The Visitor - Part II

Quinton Zondervan   May 24, 2003   interacts: 19

The Visitor returns to reveal more of his purpose

Under the Hill (part 2)

Abdullah Arian   Mar 12, 2003   interacts: 2

short story--part II

Midnight's Knights?

Farzana Versey   Dec 29, 2002   interacts: 152

Both Rushdie and Naipaul belong to the streets. They are clinging to roots they have no claims over.

The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses

Subroto Roy   Dec 28, 2002   interacts: 33

Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art

Saveray Jo Kal Aankh Meri Khuli

Mohammad Gill   Dec 14, 2002   interacts: 18

When a jackal is hounded by death, he heads towards the city...

Shammo’s Curse

Aamir Ibrahim   Dec 9, 2002   interacts: 15

falling out of love is easy if the foundations are weak

Foreword of Aag ka Dariya

Mohammad Gill   Dec 4, 2002   interacts: 14

There is such a well-established chain of rumors about this novel that any refutation of them is beyond me.

San Salvador

Quinton Zondervan   Aug 18, 2002   interacts: 15

The lander stood like a giant gleaming egg against the orange sky.

Kashmir Fatigue

Ajay Raina   Jun 17, 2002   interacts: 705

I still have a home there and I am looking forward to my permanent return

Top Ten South Asian Pieces of Music

A J Nabi   Aug 25, 2001   interacts: 214

What to take in the event of natural disaster

The Shah of Chicago II

A J Nabi   May 25, 2001   interacts: 18

the place was thick with smugglers and heroin factories

The Shah of Chicago: A Novel

A J Nabi   May 18, 2001   interacts: 6

Will you purchase more narcotics?

Spew

Shandana Minhas   Feb 12, 2001   interacts: 27

the city staggered to its feet like a dazed Cockroach

Wishing Numbness

Sharjeel Abbas   Dec 19, 2000   interacts: 25

No doubt it was you that lived in me

Let’s talk about Bollywood

Futema Jafri   Mar 1, 2000   interacts: 126

While many people would rather drown in a nearby lake than admit that they watch Bollywood movies...

Deprivation

Shandana Minhas   Aug 13, 1999   interacts: 43

This is my story. Leave me and you die

Why Did Led Zeppelin Name the Song Kashmir?

Steve J Simske   Mar 27, 1999   interacts: 5

A tongue-in-cheek look at a song that is ostensibly related to South Asia ...

Nine Lives

Kaukab Jhumra   Oct 29, 1998   interacts: 9

I told my father about his father’s death.

Lata Mangeshkar & Noor Jahan Chalte Chalte

Ras Siddiqui   Oct 21, 1998   interacts: 6

The nightingale of India and the other great voice of the sub-continent.

Vanishing Point

Sheldon Pacotti   Sep 8, 1998   interacts: 2

... if by chance our lives, unmolested, had been allowed to continue

Incantation

Sheldon Pacotti   Jun 29, 1998   interacts: 3

Where intelligence can be enhanced with expensive pharmaceuticals, a poor boy needs an alternative medicine

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 an Agnostic.

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