Dear Diary – Why Keep Diaries?
By Fatima Ijaz “Without fear of infamy I answer you” Dante, Inferno, Canto XXVII 61-66 The very act of keeping a diary is meticulous, keenly observant and defiant. How so? Well, it takes the very nerves of...
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The Surreal World of the Immigrant
By Fatima Ijaz Physical displacement would initiate a kind of poetic, rather surreal reality in...
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The Proust Questionnaire: Osman Haneef
Osman Haneef was born in Pakistan and, as the child of a diplomat, grew up in different cities in...
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WHAT CAN JOURNALISM TEACH WRITERS? – An Interview with Shumaila Khan
I find journalism to be a sister-field of writing, different yet both can learn so much from the...
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Thanksgiving, 2019
I can’t sit at the dining table & listen to the morning swarm of words buzzing...
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The Braille of Touching
In view of my window last night’s snow interprets the hills, the hush of its thick fall...
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The Proust Questionnaire: Sascha Akhtar
Of Necessity & Wanting is Sascha Akhtar’s debut fiction. It is set in Karachi and is...
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A Girl Walks Home Alone
The lightless flux is a cacophony this time of night.A dark violet hue ripples and curls around...
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Portrait Of An Emerging Metaphor
SADNESS – A New Language Sadness doesn’t reach me never alone. At least, ...
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