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Diary of a Vagabond/Jis Desh Main Ganga Behti Hai

Raisa Begam and Sardar Ali migrated from Delhi to Karachi in 1947. Their families grew to know each other during the long trip westward a...

Belly Button and Left Elbow Walk Into a Bar

I’ve often wondered how high people’s belly buttons are. Sometimes when I wake up I’m convinced my left leg is a little longer than the r...

Haveli : Daastan-goi

Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi, the recipient of Hilal-e-Imtiaz and Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the highest literary honors award by the Pakistan Government, ...

A Day Stretched Out Like A Bedsheet

on the grass in Lodhi Gardens a lone woman with the days’ work strung about her in a bag or two, and shades kept ready for the 5 o’clock ...

Everything and Nothing

Home, hmm. To me, home means everything and nothing, all at the same time. This feeling is a result of spending the most influential ye...

I. Its the kind of smell you can't decide if you like or not. Unidentifiable, inseparable into ingredients forgotten as soon as you toe o...

Fazal Ka Bangla

While I'm sure I first read about the partition, like most of us did, during a history class in school, the first exchange actually do re...

The Old Pereira House

I have spent a large part of my life in the Old Pereira house, my home. It's hidden like a fossil, engulfed almost entirely by an overwhe...

Kafka's Monkey

'Kafka's Monkey' is an Urdu adaptation of Kafka’s famous short story ' A Report to an Academy'. In this reading from the piece, Sunil del...

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