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Articles with tag: Festivals

Dance of the Seasons / American Amavasya

N Bajpai   Dec 7, 2004   interacts: 30

Diya dances light
From jack-o-lantern
On our American
Amavasya


Basant 2002

Rozaiba    Feb 13, 2004   interacts: 46

As the policeman began to walk toward his pick-up, the writer blurted out, ’Basant Mubarak!’

Ramadan Special: The Felicitations of Fasting

Asif Naqshbandi   Nov 9, 2003   interacts: 28

The one who fasts has two joys in which to delight...

Prayer and Foliage/Compassion and Consistency

Aaria Ahmed   Oct 29, 2003   interacts: 24

Two views on Ramadaan: 'I pray for peace, and love and happiness' --Aaria Ahmed; 'I hope for compassion and consistency' --temporal

Diya JalaiN: Light the Lamp

Temporal    Oct 25, 2003   interacts: 15

Who’s afraid of (a) little more happiness, little less hatred?
In diversity is hope: in hope, light. let’s light that lamp and nurse its flickers ..

Broken-Hearts, Dream-Filled eyes

Hamid Mahmood   Jul 2, 2003   interacts: 42

You see them everywhere. You see them on the roadside begging, or in a waste dump collecting worthy trash, or bringing you hot cooked food on a roadside restaurant, or trying to sell you roses or a cheap bouquet at a traffic signal. They are everywhere.

Bari Imam’s Republic of Peeristan

Hala Malik   Jul 2, 2003   interacts: 46

Before, this disease was limited to the illiterate population of Pakistan, but now it’s becoming more of a fashion for literate and well-known people to be seeing some Pir or Sufi. It’s the latest new trend.

When the Lights Hurt the Eyes

Farzana Versey   Nov 14, 2001   interacts: 384

Our superstitions are world-renowned. We feed the poor in designated months...

A Conversation with Om Puri in New York City

Saniya Ansari   Aug 25, 2001   interacts: 49

Other than acting I think I can only be best as a farmer

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