Category: Arts

Friday Poem: Things That Collapse

by Jonathan Harris at the Rattle: Slumped in a lawn chair under a pink umbrella…

Wednesday Poem: The Sum of Life

Nothing to do but work,…. Nothing to eat but food,Nothing to wear but clothes…. To…

Monday Poem: “Damn!” By César A Gonzalez

Sometimes he’d be washing the car. . . all by himselfand he’d say, “Damn!”or sweeping…

Aankhon Ko Visa Nahi Lagta By Gulzar

Blast from the past: Gulzar pens a beautiful ode to Mehdi Hasan, and remembers Ahmed…

Maniza Naqvi on Saving Karachi’s Oldest Bookstore

Maniza Naqvi at Literary Hub: Back in December 2016, I was sitting in my office…

Afghanistan: Broad Strokes and Canvases

Irshad Salim: Over the years, paints, brushes, the pellet knife and canvases substituted my textual…

The Unique Life Philosophy of Abdi, Born in Somalia, Living in the Netherlands

at Aeon: When viewers are introduced to Abdiwahab Ali, the main character in the short…

Between Machine and Eye

Morgan Meis at The Easel: This photograph is the kind of photograph you’d throw away….

How I Lost and Found My Scientific Creativity

In my new job, I tried to heed this epiphany. I made a point to…

Poem: Portrait of a Romantic

He is in love with the land that is always overThe next hill and the…

‘Siri Paye’-by Habib Khan

Habib Khan from Quetta: I had been to the Kaghan valley twice in the nineties…

Photography’s Shooting Star

Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless…