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Poem: In the company of saints
While I walked along my humble life With all the challenges, obstacles, and pains of a wife I embraced the saints and prophets who I’ve come to love through my life. I understood their struggles as...January 28, 2021 816 0 -
The joy of capturing the New Year’s sun
These days it is foggy over most parts of the central and southern Punjab in Pakistan’s largest province. But I must try to catch a glimpse of the first rising sun of 2021, the new year...January 1, 2021 996 0 -
Poem: “A Little Girl’s Smile”
A little girl, with a smiling face and tattered clothes on her. Bare-footed, she walks slowly on the carpeted road. Watching around luxury vehicles loaded with the aristocracy, Lost in their own...January 1, 2021 1076 0 -
Poem of the week: “What is it that I seek?”
A force of such might it sets me free A light so bright it blinds me I heard it in the voice of the nightingale I know it was in the hearts of the wise I...December 5, 2020 1519 1 -
Poem: December is back
December is back back with its grey skies, and glacial cold. An old man holding a mug sips hot coffee, lost in thoughts. Dreaming of the olden days, the charming ways. Once he...November 27, 2020 1163 0 -
Sean Connery, the original James Bond, passes away
Sean Connery, the actor who originally played the role of British secret agent James Bond 007, and later outgrew that influence to star in multiple roles, passed away on Saturday aged 90. Connery rocketed to fame...October 31, 2020 1016 0 -
The romance of the old Frontier during the British colonial era
British colonialism in the Indian subcontinent has long been a fierce topic of debate. Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and the British all have their own deeply held personal thoughts about the long-lasting impact that the British Raj...October 23, 2020 813 0 -
His Master’s Voice – A short story
“You are a swing and I am a shadow, I wish to surge with you”. When Jawaid saw that record lying in the shop of a dealer in the old wares, he recalled the scattered memories...October 15, 2020 1436 1 -
POEM – A butterfly’s tweets
Butterfly! A colorful moth, moving around flowers, laying out its shades, here and there, everywhere. Singing and twittering, tweets of joy, tweets of love, leaving a message – Life is too short, Just a...October 10, 2020 838 0 -
First Love – A poem on connection with Cambridge University
First Love It was love at first sight —and it was true with the breathless passion that the years could not dim and like a faithful lover I have returned again and again Half a century...October 3, 2020 3033 1