Water and Me – Story by T. Abbasi
Water and Me – Story by T. Abbasi Mike, my instructor, kept on going, “Swim Tehsin, you can do it”, but I knew I wasn’t...
Category: Fiction افسانے
Caesar, Mata Hari, and Mirza: Story by Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi
Caesar, Mata Hari, and Mirza By Godot Khan Translated from Urdu, a story by Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi (1962). Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi is to receive the...
Muslims in India: Don’t I Have the Right to Know? – By V. Malik
The purpose of sharing this letter with you on a public forum is to bring about a discussion on an important issue. I just want...
A Little After 3am: Short Story [Afsana]
That night I did not step out of my room to have dinner or to apologize to them. Instead I lay face down, pretending...
The Perfect Man – By R. Hashmi
Who is this perfect man? Where is he? Why is he eluding me? And most of all, does he even exist or would I die...
My Top Ten Novels by Desi Writers – By A. Naqshbandi
The history of desi fictional writing in the English language has a fairly long history and includes works which are now considered classics of English...
Saadat Hasan Manto’s response to his critics
Saadat Hasan Manto’s response to his critics Manto’s as rightly conceived by Ajoka Theatre, was a Gustaakh fiction writer, who never lived to win a popularity...
Lessons from the Technologist’s Mother
Lessons from the Technologist’s Mother Living in a wonderland of electronic gadgets, 3G phones and handheld organizers, a selfproclaimed Technologist messes his life; to learn...
Two Epitaphs of Saadat Hasan Manto
I always thought Manto to be like Marmite. Either you love him or loathe him. I guess he was aware of this fact. Yet, it...
To Be Or Not To Be Home? – By S. Khan
With none other than pretty woman, and pretty successful, Julia Roberts admitting she rather cook dinner for hubby Danny Moder than run between studios, and...
Village of Women – Short Story by Leya Mathew
Extraordinary people like Jesus, Buddha and Gandhi can expel the evils accumulated over generations of oppression and injustice with the message of Love and Non-violence....
Thirteen Books You Should’ve Read But Probably Haven’t!
Part One: Non-Fiction 1. The Koran Interpreted by A. J. Arberry. The sacred book of Islam, this is also the supreme masterpiece of Arabic literature...
The Mosquito – By Beej K Singh
He was running between two tall buildings. There was a power outage. It was a narrow lane. There was mud, there were open sewers on...
