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Satire’s Border: English, Urdu, and Who May Laugh

The state wrote the best epigraph for Mohammed Hanif. A Case of Exploding Mangoes lived happily enough in English for years, mixing offence and admiration. Then it reached Urdu, the national language, the ungated room. Men arrived at the publisher’s office and took the books away. The message did not require a memo. Rebel English…

ByNarendra Pachkhédé1 day ago0Comments

In a Genocide Words Die First

"In times of dread, artists must never remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That's how civilizations heal." — Toni Morrison in No Place for Self-Pity,…

ByNarendra PachkhédéDecember 23, 20240Comments

POLITICS Fiction Uncategorized

Larry the cat

Dave the Rave has all the moves. Verily, is he the Lord of the Dance. Yet no one or their cat noticed the sky turning black upon his return. Only I saw the devil on his back as he leads us towards post-Brexit temptation. But something is afoot. Mark my words. These tea-guzzling-biscuit-gobbling Fat Cats…

ByMiranda HusainApril 1, 20240Comments

Without a Word, Without a Tear: Two Poems

Quest for love O Refreshing rain! Douse the fire within my soul. Caress my wounds, Like the sword that slithers over my lover’s neck. Replenish the forsaken garden within my chest, Once besieged by a grotesque guest. Bury thorns in my flesh, Let them grow veins for ichor yet some blood. Make my body agate,…

ByLalain BalochFebruary 10, 20240Comments

ART Fiction Poetry POLITICS

Trading Misery for Death: The Tragic Death of a Sudanese Poet

Translations and a tribute to a young Sudanese poet who drowned, last week, in the Mediterranean Sea: A young Sudanese poet’s prediction of his fate came true last week when he drowned in the Mediterranean. Abdel Wahab Yousif, better known as Latinos, died when a rubber boat packed with African immigrants sank into the sea…

ByAdil BabikirFebruary 10, 20240Comments

ART Fiction Poetry

Notes to Myself and My Other Privileged Friends.

Here are some things that I haven’t been able to deny, when I check in with myself; I was lying in bed unable to sleep And I remembered The intro of this song My friend DJ Zakham used to play at an underground party, called Mutiny in New York City; “AZADI KIS NEY LA-KAR DI HY?”…

ByMonica DograFebruary 10, 20240Comments

ART Fiction Poetry

To Contend With The Heart In Winter (For Sushi Anarkali)

It is strange to contend with the heart in winter to carry blood so visible to each passer-by, To bleed with memories of colour, To carry to friends choked tears verses, moments and now sumptuous pain To coil reprieves and apologies, To consider eulogy but to write laments, In winter it is hard to contend…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

ART Fiction Poetry Uncategorized

To Contend With The Heart In Winter (For Sushi Anarkali)

It is strange to contend with the heart in winter to carry blood so visible to each passer-by, To bleed with memories of colour, To carry to friends choked tears verses, moments and now sumptuous pain To coil reprieves and apologies, To consider eulogy but to write laments, In winter it is hard to contend…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

ART Fiction Poetry POLITICS

NOTE FROM A DOOMED CIVILIZATION

NOTE FROM A DOOMED CIVILIZATION The Americans have broken all Treaties, refused to be part of the World Court They are their own Carte Blanche to massacre and destroy, Beyond All judgment... vampire face insect eyes Smirk of the Blood Sucker === Inside Capital Inside a White house A conversation of murderers Armed with nervous breakdowns the…

ByAmiri BarakaFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Fiction Poetry POLITICS

NOTE FROM A DOOMED CIVILIZATION

NOTE FROM A DOOMED CIVILIZATION The Americans have broken all Treaties, refused to be part of the World Court They are their own Carte Blanche to massacre and destroy, Beyond All judgment... vampire face insect eyes Smirk of the Blood Sucker === Inside Capital Inside a White house A conversation of murderers Armed with nervous breakdowns the…

ByAmiri BarakaFebruary 9, 20240Comments