Articles with tag: reflection
Live In
Prashant Bhatt Nov 3, 2008“The world outside the campus is very cruel. There are people who pass sarcastic remarks or start giving patronizing advice regarding my job, career, potential marriage” she told as they sat together
Color Me In
Maryam Piracha Aug 17, 2007 interacts: 7My eyes wander around her room – it is clean – each artifact carefully in place as if she arranged her coffin before she decided to die.
A Requiem for the Victims of 7/11
M B Qasmi Aug 7, 2006 interacts: 5As individuals we suffer and grieve and perhaps throw a few crumbs through a charitable organization for the victims or sometimes even offer our blood, but as a society we create conditions through our silence when it becomes a sin to remain mere spectato
Reflections and other poems
Alberto Ceras Sep 28, 2005 interacts: 7looking down ourselves look back
likenesses wrinkled by the wind
then lips to mirrored lips we drink
till no water’s there
nor images, nor we.
Jumbish
Samir Fayaz Mar 16, 2005 interacts: 8A conversation with a bus driver on a journey I embarked on recently...
Life
Feroz R Khan Aug 5, 2004 interacts: 21We live in denial and we gladly shoot the messenger with a new message. It is not because we are afraid of the message, but because we are appalled that someone would accept it. What we do not know makes us stronger and what we do know, makes us weak
Fishing
Temporal Jan 19, 2004 interacts: 20Thoughts strike alike the living and the frozen. Innocent or enigmatic: they provide the wind in sails, passion in emotions. The magic potion between irresistible dreams and impossible logic: thought. And thinking? One a wind and the other cloud?
Wonder
Omer Fayyaz Dec 28, 2003 interacts: 4‘I wonder how these stones reached here’, said the boy to his friend
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.
A Day In The Bazaar
Sobia Aslam Feb 3, 2003 interacts: 29The young boy bumping into her made her mad, madder than she had ever been, but he escaped on his bicycle, grinning, that little bastard.
The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses
Subroto Roy Dec 28, 2002 interacts: 33Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art
The King’s Gambit: Chapter 4 (The Aviator)
Umair Raja and Omer Rafique Jul 31, 2002 interacts: 32The seventy-two year old Christian Palestinian was confidently sitting at the head of the most powerful group of Muslim men ever assembled
Whose Iqbal — Ours or Theirs?
Zafar Anjum Mar 11, 2002 interacts: 182As if I am the traveler as well as the destination itself
Full Moon on the Ganges
Rebecca R Kose Feb 17, 1999 interacts: 21Night time on a cremation ground, among the bones and the spirits.
His Beautiful Marbled Palace
Wasiq Bokhari Jan 11, 1999 interacts: 12Unfamiliar faces multiply in unfamiliar ways.
Incantation
Sheldon Pacotti Jun 29, 1998 interacts: 3Where intelligence can be enhanced with expensive pharmaceuticals, a poor boy needs an alternative medicine
Water Buffaloes
Shan Anwar Mar 30, 1998 interacts: 26...I could probably use a shave, but I’ve got on this outrageously expensive shirt from the A/X that makes up for any other visual short-comings.
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.
Fifty Years of Pakistan Cricket: A Look Back
Abdul Hussain Aug 14, 1997 interacts: 2Take a long, relishing look back at Pakistan Cricket.
The Present Age
Kierkegaard Aug 12, 1997 interacts: 1A Revolutionary Age is an age of action; the present age is an age of advertisement, or an age of publicity: nothing happens, but there is instant publicity about it.
The Stop Sign
Kenyan Aug 12, 1997 interacts: 2If you have never seen this road sign, are you sure you are awake?
