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Articles with tag: friend

Pigeons on My Balcony

Prashant Bhatt   Jul 5, 2008   interacts: 5

"They have laid eggs. Now Bhatt, if you do not throw them out, the babies will dirty your balcony like anything." That is the way they look at it, my dear human friends.

The Horse and The Zebra

Rafi Aamer   Jul 12, 2007   interacts: 53

“Do you know the most important difference between a horse and a zebra?” Shazi asked me after the first drag of his cigarette loaded with hash. “And don’t tell me that a zebra has stripes and a horse doesn’t,” he added

Internet Relationships – Blessing or Curse?

Khalid Sohail   Mar 9, 2006   interacts: 25

As a student of human psychology I feel that the mystery of internet relationships stimulates people’s imagination and they start the relationships where reality merges with fantasy

Dev, Harry and I

Burpinder Singh   Sep 26, 2005   interacts: 40

It’s always a rather sensitive topic for guys my age. Carried away by misplaced patriotism and a rather low opinion of our own ability to deal with homesickness, we’d made our career choices and stayed back home, while flightloads of eager fri

Close Encounter

Temporal    Aug 29, 2005   interacts: 382

Jamil had come to the US as a teenager and had graduated in atmospheric sciences from University of Colorado at Fort Collins. A shy reclusive student, he had changed into a rambunctious young man in the intervening years: not averse to enjoying life and w

Dark Places

Soysauce    Mar 31, 2005   interacts: 15

Helena’s story rekindled some age-old longing that had been put away in a back corner of my heart. A love I had shut out in pursuit of education, in pursuit of foreign places and exotica.

Oh So Vicious

shyema khan   Mar 25, 2005   interacts: 12

She had instructed me to stay away from him because she really liked him. She was only joking about how he was the type that I usually went for. She was one of my close friends; a little boy sacrifice from my side wasn’t a big deal- at that point.

Half a Confession-I

Temporal    Mar 3, 2005   interacts: 10

My impulsive ride on the motorbike bare back to topless, daring the gods of winds and tarmac, shattered that idyll. I insisted on going to the graveyard, open the shroud to look at his face and despite protestation I kissed him on the lips one last time.

Travels with My Charlie

Ali Pracha   Feb 11, 2005   interacts: 7

As far as I am concerned, his bark and bite were quite evenly matched. I lectured him about this matter, but he sat back, licked his wounds and stared through me like I was an idiot. And perhaps I was. After all, I was talking to a dog. Still, he DID

Strangers Upon Meeting

shyema khan   Dec 1, 2004   interacts: 16

Ama thinks I am with Fahad and Fahad thinks I am with Ash. Perfect. I park the car outside Meer’s house and opened the rusty gate. The main door was slightly ajar and I inwardly prayed that his mother wouldn’t be around.

Club X

Rahul Asthana   Jul 7, 2004   interacts: 22

Ashish, the guy with the perma-smirk, was feeling happier with his life than he had right to be. Lately, he had been haunted by the fear of becoming engulfed into The Sea of Mediocrity. He had tried several diversions like paid sex to kinky sex to paid an

The Lost One

Shonali Sarin   Jun 28, 2004   interacts: 10

And watching his broad back getting smaller and smaller, Priya becomes aware, that some mighty power, somewhere long back, in a fit of cruelty, has seared one name deep on her heart............. Angad.

My Best Friend

Ayesha H Ahmad   Jun 3, 2004   interacts: 14

My friend looked excited and as he saw me look up, asked, 'You see?' And pointed his finger at the article. I looked back at the article to figure out the reason behind my friend’s excitement. My eyes suddenly fell on the writer’s name: Sameer

Naila

Rakaposh    May 8, 2004   interacts: 27

She looked the same as she did before at her funeral. That was my first Namaz e janaza. I looked at the crowd: 30 people maybe. Most of them didn’t know her well either. 800 at the wedding and 30 at the funeral.

Girlfriends

Sobia Aslam   Mar 10, 2004   interacts: 40

They will tell you honestly when you’ve gained weight, they’ll help your confidence by reassuring you about your looks, and if they hold your hand, chances are they’ll never let it go.

India Pakistan Friendship, Why Now?

Prem Das   Jan 10, 2004   interacts: 83

What has changed geopolitically that has forced both countries to reconsider their long-stated positions?

To Taj -- In Dutch Company

Zafar Anjum   Nov 3, 2003   interacts: 5

To live in India and not to see the Taj Mahal is like to have eyes and not to know beauty. For over 25 years, I had not known beauty.

Sohail Rana: Musings on music

Anis Shakur   Nov 26, 2002   interacts: 31

His adorers are surrounded by a lifetime of numerous memories of his immortal compositions.

The King’s Gambit: Chapter 5 (The Diplomat)

Omer Rafique   Oct 21, 2002   interacts: 65

Carl 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.

My Sahib

Godot    Aug 14, 2001   interacts: 117

An English translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Mera Sahib’

Ismat Chughtai’s Autobiography -- A Transalation

Muniba Kamal   Nov 8, 2000   interacts: 47

Let her, said my father

Is the Language of New Fiction Androgynous?

Harish Nambiar   Aug 31, 2000   interacts: 7

Does literature too have sex?

Prayers

Temporal    Jan 1, 2000   interacts: 17

You eternal, me temporal

Her Other Self

Jawahara Saidullah   Nov 1, 1999   interacts: 12

Why did she wake up in nightmarish sweats chased by dark fears?

Justa Simple Sad Poem

Tourniquet    Dec 22, 1998   interacts: 3

Tears congealed into words

Azadi

Sheldon Pacotti   Mar 24, 1998   interacts: 5

A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol

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