Fiction

Bilal Handoo The feeling was still sinking in Majeed Bhat, a government clerk when he attended his office. Melodrama of last night at his home...

Insha Bint Bashir A free movement curbed half a century ago got partially resumed in the spring of 2005. On April 7 that year, the...

Junaid Ashraf All the dogs of the high-walled city of Capitaloslovakia came rushing—all at once, seemingly depressed. They walked through the oily streams, beneath the...

Bilal Handoo Mama was the only Jehadist among scores of his time. But the sorry state of affairs is that: while India honoured Muma Kana...

Nayeem Rather At a time when morning breeze passing over river Jhelum found no one to rejoice it, an old man was walking alone in...

Bilal Handoo Out from the bustling bazaar of old town Baramulla, he walks as if in seclusion. He often walks that way—apparently, he mimics zombies!...

Omair Bhat Early Spring. Heemal. Frontier District. Kashmir. Smoke is billowing from the chimneys, rising and swirling in twisting spirals and disappearing in the void less sky stretched...

Aarif Muzafar Rather The word Azadi struck his ears at the age of 7. It was the period when Kashmir was passing through an uprising...

Nayeem Rather As Sikandar Shah woke from his sleep in the early hours of that morning, he hastily went to courtyard of shrine for ablution....

Muntaha Amin A treacherous journey had ended. I was finally home along with mates. They had shown us door—as we cheered for greens! We were...

Bilal Handoo It is one of those medieval houses in old Srinagar that stirred up nostalgia. On its first floor, a traditional Kashmiri window is...

Bilal Handoo It is raining heavily tonight. A haunting darkness has wrapped hundreds of households in downtown Srinagar. The clock has struck 10 pm. In...

Bilal Handoo Last year on Mother’s Day, Tabasum’s face was beaming with smile. Her younger sibling, Murassa was too cheerful. 365 days after, the day has...

Bilal Handoo He celebrated like a Brazilian soccer fan over ‘their victory over them’. But more than one party’s win, he cherished the loss of...

Muntaha Amin He sensed the opportunity—that, he could run away. And without considering anything else, he held his breath and made his way out of...