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Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Review by Irtiza Yousuf (PG Sem 1)
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is Khaled Hosseni’s another beautifully and well crafted novel that takes the readers on an emotionally charged journey revolving around the lives of two Afghan Women, Mariam and Laila, set on the backdrop of the war torn Afghanistan from 1970s to the early 2000s.
Plot:
The writer intricately builds the stories of the two characters and brings them together in an unlikely but powerful way.  » Read more about: Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns  »

 Unheard Tales From The Backseat of Sumo

By Saqib Manzoor
In surging tumult and turmoil, I succeeded in occupying the back seat of a Sumo. The front and the middle had been already occupied by other passengers. Now, only three seats in the back were empty and waiting for passengers. People, sitting in the front and middle, were engrossed in hogwash of talks. Someone informed others about his stolen cow and others left a deep and remorseful sigh on it. Another seemed exasperated by the management of LD hospital.  » Read more about:  Unheard Tales From The Backseat of Sumo  »

Modern Bags For Modern Times

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Advertisement by Ibtisam, Madiha, Zubair, Shaizan  » Read more about: Modern Bags For Modern Times  »

Explore your talent at Arif Mir’s Studio

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His La-La Land

 
Nakhshab Kirmani
 
 Medical humanitarian organization, MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders), conducted a research in collaboration with the Department of Psychology, Kashmir University and the Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience (IMHANS). The report found that 45 percent of Kashmir’s adult population i.e 1.8 million adults, suffer from some form of mental distress and 93 percent have conflict related trauma.
The conflict in Kashmir has not even spared people with mental disabilities. Locally known as “maet”,  » Read more about: His La-La Land  »

Rain

Zainab Shafiq
Satyajit was sipping his coffee as the initial rays of sunlight tiptoed through the meadows, gradually wrapping the sky in blue. The westward breeze whispered through the dry grass, infusing a spirit of vitality in everything as it flew past. Satyajit started pacing back and forth – his eyebrows furrowed and lips pressed together. For some totally inexplicit reasons, mornings had always taken a toll on him. Throughout his life, he’d never felt as much loneliness in any other part of the day as he did in the first hours.  » Read more about: Rain  »

Gender Crisis

Gender Crisis

In Srinagar’s Basant Bagh, the door of a modest home’s room has not been opened since the onset of militancy. Seemingly claustrophobic, the 6 x 3 ft room resembles a torture cell. It has the lone inmate, Muhammad Sultan Dar, known locally as Sul Maam, a septuagenarian transgender.
Reduced to a corner where he cooks, it needs a serious effort to get Sul Maam’s attention. “Bea Chusow Goub Bouzaan (I am hard of hearing),” Sul Maam said,  » Read more about: Gender Crisis  »

Lost

Lost

Lost my way, but I went on.
Lost my soul, but I went on.
Lost everything, but I went on.
Leaving behind the sorrows, vicious people and their fading promises.
Now I am in the court of conscience,
Apologetic in front of the creator, with his undeniable questions.
Getting to know that deeds of mine were in vain,
‘Cause sins are buried in my skin & unjustified pain.
Yes, I will be rewarded for my kindness,  » Read more about: Lost  »

Adieu.

Adieu.

Stay still for some more, my love,
in my flickering memory,
while I see you ascend
from a paradise-of-conflict,
to some ethereal melody.
See your adieu painting autumn
for eternity,
here in my triviality,
Leaves but one promising legacy,
a greater freedom.
I see you rising to heaven,
my coherence rotten,
with your wrenching separation,
from this paradise-of-conflict…  » Read more about: Adieu.  »

Time Bars

Time Bars

Can’t I forgot the time bounds?
Can’t I touch the velvet moments ?
I assure the glided happiness
I seek the magical adornments
Can’t I replace the calendars?
Can’t I break those TIME BARS?
Oh the laws of nature why betray me
Ah,again i feel the pain
Yes is”time and tide wait for none”
But why not we say they walk together
Can’t I shuffle the digits of year?
Can’t I fade away those memory tides?  » Read more about: Time Bars  »

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