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Articles with tag: rain

It Is Raining

Rida Abbasi   Oct 9, 2007   interacts: 7

It is silent outside, except for the steady rain; everyone is huddled inside their rooms like us. I have my face pressed against the window.

The Cost of a Pakistani Journalist Life

Imran Ali Teepu   Nov 4, 2007   interacts: 5

What matters more? the media coverage or the person covering it? Ask a media owner of newspaper or the television and it’s the coverage.

The Keys

kashkin dabruski   Oct 9, 2007   interacts: 1

Invite me back
My home and mountains
Let me remain sane
So I can converse again

Artificial Rains

Gaurav Bhardwaj   Jul 9, 2007   interacts: 2

According to metrology people the monsoons had halted at Allahabad for more than usual leaving Delhi parched and thirsty.

Teaching Science Badly – and Well

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Mar 1, 2007   interacts: 244

Dogmatism kills science. Students should therefore experience science as a process for extending understanding, not as unalterable truth. Never should the teacher say X or Y is true just because that’s what the textbook says.

Terrorists Strike Samjhota Express

Chowk Press   Feb 19, 2007   interacts: 33

Both India and Pakistan have condemned this act which appeas to have been timed to disrupt a high level meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries.

Rain! Oh Beautiful Rain!

Clytan Fernando   Oct 24, 2006   interacts: 5

Now that I bedridden lay!
'Come n play' is what you say

When Locals in Locals lost their Lives - July 11, 2006

Sudeep Pagedar   Jul 15, 2006   interacts: 20

When you share a compartment in a Mumbai local train, you bond with the others in there.

And Dr. Shahid Hussain Bokhari Quits…

Omer Cheema   Nov 3, 2005   interacts: 93

Why another world famous researcher and a dedicated teacher left Pakistan while HEC claims that its policies are supporting higher education and research in the country.

The Rainy Season

Beej K Singh   Sep 22, 2005   interacts: 67

Goswami Tulsidas looked differently at the rainy season from most.

The Woman on the Tracks

Jawahara Saidullah   Jul 8, 2005   interacts: 28

Three wheels pass over her waist before the train stops.

A Few Hundred Dollars

Aasim Khan   Jul 13, 2004   interacts: 10

So where are we headed after this? I don’t know, what do you have in mind; I wouldn’t mind getting some food for later on, it’s always a good idea. I’m not hungry though. Brain over stomach my friend, that’s the first step. C

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