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A Chinese dragon dance, Indian classical music, Indonesian and Korean troupes and Vietnamese fashion walk were all part of a lively cultural show at the Pentagon Mall that uplifted Asian communities worried over spread of coronavirus....

When I joined Professor Akbar Ahmed of American University in Washington DC last semester break, he gave me the magnificent illustrated book of his friend Professor Akmal Hussain, Dean IT University, Lahore. He enquired whether I...

  When your favorite poems Fail to move you When your sacred verses Cannot elevate you When even The deadly modern drugs Do nothing to you And you are still left Wondering How to make sense...

This year fall has arrived a little late in Washington metro area. After a long hot summer, trees did not change their colors, making photographers to wait for the right time before they go on a...

As if curious guessing about the cross-border love story “Kaaf Kangana” were not enough in the midst of Pakistan-India tensions, the release of the movie’s item song has further excited fans. With a pleasing tune, the...

A Little While A little boy playing with words a little voice crying for love a little love wasting for you the senseless patterns of the garden butterfly the insistent urgency of the army motorcycle all...

The venue for the late summer event was Des Pardes Restaurant in Springfield Virginia and the organizers Society of Urdu Literature. The banquet hall of the newest Pakistani cuisine place was packed as a number of...

Acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie has a question for the jury of Nelly Sachs Prize for literature which this month picked her as the winner of the award and just a fortnight later rescinded it – for...

Haiku effects – In the sunset of my day   Alone on my way– friendless and foreign in the sunset of my day.   Solitude of the fight stretched over years and always—fading light.   A...

The purpose of life?   What is the purpose of life? why are we here? the answers are all around us the Greeks  aimed for happiness Aristotle even listed eleven virtues that would help achieve happiness he pointed to...