It had been quite a tiring journey for her but thinking of her target made her forget all the distress going on for hours. When she was about to get on the plane, butterflies were fluttering their wings in her stomach; she felt like a little kid on her first day at school. She kept [...]
Monday, July 21, 2008
Exactly 6:30pm. The clock in the tower chimed. I felt the coldness of the night as the sun descended. I said good-bye to him at the gate, outside my house. He was in a rush; he’d remembered he has a train to catch – missing it, he feared would be an unbearable pain for the [...]
Monday, July 14, 2008
He was looking out of the window of the top floor of the hotel, his eyes locked on the horizon, when the door was knocked twice. He thought she was on time; they could watch the sunset together sitting on the terrace feeling the chilling wind on their faces. That was the best place also [...]
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
I got tired of loving her For how long could I Cut my own passages and spread them under her feet For how long could I Kiss her falling tears away For how long could I Spread my smiles on her dry lips . I got tired of loving her Thinking, that now I would get my destiny, All by myself . I slid my path from [...]
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Mental illness is not a topic of everyday conversation amongst most families and friends. In this respect Desis are no different. What is different is we do not tend to seek help as much as Caucasians or African-Americans do even when we are afflicted with psychiatric disorders. The research article titled, “Manifestation, Attribution and Coping with [...]
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
He went silent. After having lumbered through the streets while the night fell softly from the sky, he rested on a rude patch of the sidewalk. An aged lamppost glared at him with its quivering pale light; adding extra melancholy to his already burdened day. Words had run out; and whatever voice was left to his [...]
Friday, May 16, 2008
Right now she is seated so close to me that I can feel her breath on my skin. In this blood freezing winter, I can’t resist longer against her heat-pumping eyes. She has been glaring at me for quite some time now and I am burning in the warmth of her intentions. I might have [...]
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The thunderstorm from the day before has finally stopped. The atmosphere had been stifling. Only one more tree left to fall. It feels like the hour in between this and that jannat and jahnum neither quite here nor there. It is a little after three and the air is still charged. At this hour [...]
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Raised voices, angered expressions and bitter complaints. There were too many words spoken to make any sense. I, who always agreed, disagreed. She, who always understood, misunderstood. It was a rotten phone call. In utter confusion and helplessness of unexplained gestures; I asked her, “don’t you trust me?” And that’s when silence struck like a thunderbolt; the [...]
Sunday, April 13, 2008
It all happened in the dark. Moon was sleeping behind the clouds and the stars were on a leave that night. A solitary breeze was strolling through the lonesome streets. It was half past twelve when Elisa got on the bus. She was late; very late. At the last minute, her manager showed up with a [...]
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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