E-Loveby MOSARRAP H KHANPosted in:Literature & Literary Studies, Culture, ArticlesHi, what’s up? Wanna chat in private? What do I do? Nothing really. Haha. Can you see me? But I can’t see you. I wanna see you. Not so soon? When? Do you do it? No? You don’t know what?… Continue Reading
Rejected Poemby AJMAL KHAN A.TPosted in:Poetry1 The poem was accused asanti national and rejected like a US visa applicant from Muslim country It wanted to prove as nationalist It started with Vandematharam the continuing lines were only nouns of the independence struggles in which the… Continue Reading
Five poems on Survivalby INSHAH MALIKPosted in:PoetryMY MURDERER AND I The murderer loses no morality Never risk a thought Pitched on the terrain of war Thoughts are ammunition We can discuss if the murder happened But never doubt the morality of my murderer He gently caressed… Continue Reading
The itch Fadesby KHADIJA AHMEDPosted in:PoetryMosquito bites scab over and the itch fades. Oud notes fade through the patio door into the night and smoke escapes from your lips to mine. I inhale. I look over the railing into the night at the lights below.… Continue Reading
Indiaby NAZREEN FAZALPosted in:PoetryListen, India is not a woman let alone a benevolent mother draped in the tricolour, head crowned, Palm stretched to bless those who shun her femininity in all other forms. India is dark and dusty, It exists, at once, In… Continue Reading
Life Writing
‘Fathima Naufira will, for sure’by ASLAH KPosted in:Life WritingGreeting one another on the auspicious day of Eid after namaz, I was startled by a soft tap from behind. Turning, I was struck by an inexplicable joy. There, she stood. The same happy face I had met on April… Continue Reading
Just a Piece of Clothby AZNA PARVEENPosted in:Life WritingThis is something about which I have always wanted to write. Something that contributes so much to my identity and me as a person, yet, from the cover, it's just a scarf. Just a piece of cloth. I don't remember… Continue Reading
On Being a Brown Muslim Womanby RIDA ABDULLAHPosted in:Life WritingThis is the story of the time when I still used to wear the Hijab. I was 14. It was 2008. The year of the global recession, not that I knew what that it meant back then. I was flying… Continue Reading
Rohithvemula, Muslim Question and the Limit of Democracyby MUHAMMED SHAH SPosted in:Life WritingThis is an attempt to articulate the political/personal struggle that I had endured as a Muslim student during the period of students’ agitation following the sacrificial death of RohithVemula. The whole episode being stitched with my political experience as a… Continue Reading
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