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To be or Not to be

By Anwar Hussain You’re the teacher, you’re the taught You’re the lesson, you’re naught   Look within, seek and you shall find Perishable your body, imperishable your soul, your...

Trapped in Traps

By Syed Tajamul Hussain A dot of beauty, history is enough for it Many have left homes to take glimpse of it   Paradise on earth, everyone was...

Tomorrow, It May be Your Family’s Star

By Shuja Ashraf We come from the land of rich heritage and culture, The land of lakes, mountains and the endless flower, In the land where red...

Bring My Gavaskar Back!

By Santosh Bakaya “Bring my Gavaskar back!" Wailed the devastated mother of the budding cricketer Nayeem Qadir Bhat, a top order batsman His parents’ darling. The larks singing overhead Lost...
Silence of graveyard: Lal Chowk wears a deserted look after seperatists called for shutdown against hanging of Afzal Guru -- Photo: Bilal Bahadur

Interpreter of Silence

By Zubair Nazeer Don't be so silent, interpreter of silence; My words hardly make any sense; Little do they please any human heart; Give life to my silence through...

Wicked Silhouettes

By Saima Rashid Look... Those silhouettes Are coming to derail The calm of the Hamlet!   Men, Simmering! Women, worrying. Youth, fuming. Children, sobbing...   Are they on prowl To resurrect The dark times? - The one That proved Blackhole of Our...

CRY!

By Shuja Ashraf It’s been million years burning this way, inside the core The buried trees turned into diamonds and some into coal; Still the selfish creature...

Beyond the Realm of Imagination

By Zubair Nazeer I was surrounded by the things of nature at every moment How do I explain the loneliness in my life? In the courtyard of the...

Maybe

By Hirra Sultan Walls closing in...   Maybe trying to form a shell A layer all around   Maybe it was time to undergo metamorphosis to let things go For that conceptual reward Being...

Transformation

  By Syed Zumair Bukhari Isolated every now and then, up the creep, Life goes on with musings of heap; Hollowness tempts me deepen deep,   Blissful often unhollows me,...

Let Candles Cry Full Tonight

By Waqas Khan Let women and candles cry full tonight For Kunan is left in its darkest sight A burn such is sensed by their woeful hearts Which...

A Bride in Shroud

Waqas Khan Dark was destiny that draped the day Dark was my home, too dark was alley In the heart of Pulwama, when two souls left   To blissful...

When The Willow Wept

Santosh Bakaya 14 February dawned like any other day Like every day the trees rustled Every house, with fresh notes and sounds bustled. From the Willow tree the...

Moments of Loss, Despair

By Hirra Sultan The light of soul may dim sometimes And the situation be all bleak The darkness slowly creeps in Aura turning all blue!   Eyes blinded by floods, Not...

Kashmir Delirium

By Perveiz Ali Oh, People Of Earth! Thankful are we, For each act of benevolence shown to us. Your gilded sweet words describing, The beauty of Kashmir, land...