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Connection with three millennium BC – A Short Story

A piece of fiction that narrates the story of archaeologist Sir John Marshall’s grandson Peter, who traveled a long way from London and breathed his last in Karachi before visiting Mohenjo-Daro, the site of Great Indus Civilization On one cool evening in London, barrister Mazhar Kazi received a phone call from Dr. Imdad Ali, his

Whose Corpse is this on the Battlefield: Remembering Tanveer Abbasi

At this critical juncture the voices of humanist poets like Tanveer Abbasi are vital towards steadying our bearings in the storm Whose corpse is this on the battlefield? Hee kehnjo lash aa jang jey maidan ma.n*? As the news media inundates our screens with a deluge of images of lifeless bodies in the deadly wars raging in the

In the wild-land of despotism – A Poem from Sudan

Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker Abdalla, a poet and writer from war-ravaged African country Sudan, shares his latest poem Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker is a TEFL Teacher, Poet, Journalist, Activist, and Freelance Interpreter/ Translator from Umbda Omdurman – Sudan. He also has been working as a debate leader discussing various topics in many

Remembering Pakistani Poet Fahmida Riaz, Who Feared Fanaticism Everywhere

For Fahmida, personal freedom and Constitutional democracy were inherently intertwined with the idea of justice On a sultry Karachi afternoon in 2017, at the iconic Beach Luxury Hotel where I was speaking at a Literature Festival, I spotted Fahmida Riaz in a wheelchair. Making my way through the crowds, I rushed to her and offered my

Guru Nanak’s Visit to Azerbaijan in first decade of 16th Century

The Baku Atishgah, often called the “Fire Temple of Baku”, was used as a Hindu, Sikh and Zoroastrian place of worship. In his article Guru Nanak’s Travel an appraisal of Baku Visit, Gurvinder Singh Chohan has concluded that Guru Nanak did visit Baku because of the information in Memoirs of Zehir-ED-Din Mohammed Babur