Articles with tag: Hope
The Peacock Moments
kashkin dabruski Jul 3, 2008 interacts: 2Hope cannot be lost or forgotten
Carry they will these droplets of rain
Change will arrive, peace will reside
The old effect, the peacock moments!
A Life Created
raghav chopra Jan 11, 2008 interacts: 2Responsibility for a miracle,
another life, another hope
another start, a new beginning
a fresh Phoenix has risen.
I thirst
Sahir Shah Jan 4, 2008 interacts: 7I will shed this wretched skin
shred it, peel it, skin myself
Courage in a Time of Chaos
Bina Shah Dec 29, 2007 interacts: 45The enemies of our country are vast and they are clever; they would like nothing better than to see us sink into lawlessness and despair.
The Missing Pakistanis
kashkin dabruski Dec 17, 2007 interacts: 3Where are those souls
Into wilderness, they disappeared
Like autumn leaves,
With no traces
Dreams of Dania
Faisal Shahid Oct 28, 2007 interacts: 4Kamran lives in the old part of Lahore, near Lahori Gate. Living there, he says, makes him feel in sync with the heartbeats of the City.
He Dared to Call His Own
Sadia Khatri Jul 18, 2007 interacts: 4He screamed and he screamed, until he was certain his lungs were forced empty of fury intermingling with paining love. And still, nobody listened.
Its Another New Year... What's to Celebrate?
M B Qasmi Dec 26, 2006 interacts: 7This is going to be a festive season: Eiduz Zuha, Christmas, New Year and many other festivals in many lands will be celebrated in late December, followed by the dawn of 2007. Will it be a new beginning; respite from mayhem and relief from deprivation for
Dreams, Hopes, and the Road Ahead
Shaheryar Akbar Nov 5, 2006 interacts: 5We often look to the West for guidance. Let us therefore discover the true meaning of modernity as it historically unfolded within the fabric of Western societies. Bound by the chains of dogma and doctrine; unable to explore their own creativity; and incr
A World of Dreams
Xoheb Sheikh Feb 7, 2006 interacts: 8No dream is not worth having. No dream is distant. The only thing that separates us from our dreams is ourselves
An End
Farah Jan 7, 2005 interacts: 7Waiting for that grinding to begin
of small small hopes and stupid little feelings
When I see you again
Sirosh Bokhari Nov 14, 2003 interacts: 12Physical distances between loved ones are painful but bearable as hope lies in the existing space and time. But death imparts distances impossible to comprehend as hope is pushed beyond eternity and its becomes difficult to put feelings in some worldly pe
Running Mascara: Behta Kajal
Honeyed Poison Oct 3, 2003 interacts: 6A common sight seen waiting for the expats at the Arrivals Lounge
The Recompense
Zafar Anjum Apr 21, 2003 interacts: 25Ten years ago, when Samina had come to Shakeel’s house in her bridal finery, she dreamt of a happy family life amid a brood of children.
My Beautiful Rizwan
Samina Rizwan Apr 5, 2003 interacts: 79Such was the overpowering presence in my life, of Rizwan - my husband, my friend, my soulmate, my shaheed.
The Visitor
Quinton Zondervan Mar 28, 2003 interacts: 7If aliens came to Earth, why would they come, and how?
One Ring to Rule Them All
Kaukab J Smith Feb 19, 2003 interacts: 27I see something I never noticed at the jeweller's. My ring displays the universal symbol of nuclear capability.
An Interview with Govind Nihalani
Zafar Anjum Feb 16, 2003 interacts: 9For Hindi film buffs, Govind Nihalani needs no introduction.
Antarctica
Quinton Zondervan Jan 2, 2003 interacts: 7Once again the world was engulfed in war. For what reasons no one knew, least of which the soldiers, for the reasons had been so contrived and ill supported that they were also soon forgotten.
The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses
Subroto Roy Dec 28, 2002 interacts: 33Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art
Shammo’s Curse
Aamir Ibrahim Dec 9, 2002 interacts: 15falling out of love is easy if the foundations are weak
The King’s Gambit: Chapter 5 (The Diplomat)
Omer Rafique Oct 21, 2002 interacts: 65Carl Davis had just lost one group of swing votes in his home state. He was going to make sure he did not lose the other group also.
Don Shultz
Mohammad A Shaikh Sep 5, 2002 interacts: 23He was a thin dangling creature nearing eighty
Kashmir Fatigue
Ajay Raina Jun 17, 2002 interacts: 705I still have a home there and I am looking forward to my permanent return
The Red Dress
Zafar Anjum Mar 29, 2002 interacts: 70With the mountainous weight of forty-three years
Whose Iqbal — Ours or Theirs?
Zafar Anjum Mar 11, 2002 interacts: 182As if I am the traveler as well as the destination itself
Some Birds Don’t Fly
Hamidah Hemani Nov 11, 2001 interacts: 20I can hear the jingle of her ankle bracelet in rhythm to the heavy tabla beats
A Father’s Letter To Daughter: A short story
Harish Nambiar Nov 5, 2001 interacts: 14whichever clan rules the earth, I shall always be the outsider
Top Ten South Asian Pieces of Music
A J Nabi Aug 25, 2001 interacts: 214What to take in the event of natural disaster
The Evolution of Urdu Literature in the 20th Century
Farid Khwaja Jul 29, 2001 interacts: 63Literature is the narration of time
Loves loved {some not so loved}
Zehra Rizvi May 11, 2001 interacts: 83My future has been flirting with his past
Spew
Shandana Minhas Feb 12, 2001 interacts: 27the city staggered to its feet like a dazed Cockroach
San Diego Warming’
Rizwana Z Khan Sep 4, 1999 interacts: 4... fifty plus people of all sizes and ages convened for a slumber party
Reshma: Voice of Mother Earth
V Ramaswamy Jul 16, 1999 interacts: 9The voice of Reshma is the voice of Mother Earth
Madame Noor Jehan and Urdu’s Best Song Ever
Ras Siddiqui Dec 9, 1998 interacts: 12A tribute to the Malikah-e-Tarannum.
Lata Mangeshkar & Noor Jahan Chalte Chalte
Ras Siddiqui Oct 21, 1998 interacts: 6The nightingale of India and the other great voice of the sub-continent.
Evil Spirits Travel in Straight Lines
Sheldon Pacotti Oct 19, 1998 interacts: 3Two French scientists go to Senegal to fight a resistant strain of malaria.
Khodoki
Sheldon Pacotti Aug 11, 1998 interacts: 1Down and out in Leninsk, Kazakhistan: an old technician at Russia’s largest spaceport
A Column of Ants
Amar M Tipu Jul 22, 1998 interacts: 7There is crack in the wall a little below the window...
Incantation
Sheldon Pacotti Jun 29, 1998 interacts: 3Where intelligence can be enhanced with expensive pharmaceuticals, a poor boy needs an alternative medicine
The Life Hereafter
A Sheraz Jun 3, 1998 interacts: 5And just when we shelter under death, life comes at us sideways
Man or mouse
Anita Zaidi Apr 28, 1998 interacts: 11Miss Parveen had simple requirements. Where was the man who could fulfill them?
A Fallen Man
Nathan Rabe Apr 1, 1998 interacts: 9An unexpected encounter on a cold winter’s morning in Minneapolis.
Azadi
Sheldon Pacotti Mar 24, 1998 interacts: 5A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol
The Bitter Taste of Milk: A Novel
Quinton Zondervan Mar 18, 1998 interacts: 3Chowk showcases the work of a young writer with the weekly serialization of his first novel
Climate Controlled
Shan Anwar Mar 1, 1998 interacts: 6The stench of poverty, was real,unfiltered, emanating from the open sewers, over which, now, a dark, naked child smiles, squats.
The Bulletin Board of a Believer
A Believer Jan 27, 1998 interacts: 3I do not define myself as an Agnostic simply because I do not know enough to be sure of being an Agnostic.
Diary of an Agnostic
An Agnostic Jan 9, 1998 interacts: 11In my time I have been an inveterate but shallow reader. Everything I have read has shaped me and I can’t quote any of it.
Tania
Umair A Khan Nov 20, 1997 interacts: 15Tania. He has looks, he has a BMW, he has all the girls he can handle, said Saadia beginning to wrap the phone cord around her fingers.
The MIT Commencement Mystery, and Other Stories
Umair A Khan Aug 20, 1997 interacts: 1Did Kurt Vonnegut pay Mary Schmish to write the MIT commencement speech for Kofi Annan? Well...
Faani Here Baaqi There
Kew Aug 18, 1997 interacts: 3From the Kew Continuum comes a eulogy for the late, great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Reminisce
Kenyan Aug 8, 1997 interacts: 1Our first entry in The Leafy Glade Inn’s Victorian Study, is one in which the author softly remembers people in a place far, far away in the past.
