The History of Music
With unrehearsed bravado you rise and play a difficult concerto that makes your cheap new violin resound like a Stradivarius. You aren’t even on…
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Pop Culture And Sexuality
By Gareth Trew Gaga. Madonna. Bowie. In late 2007, at Carnegie Hall, New York, J.K. Rowling announced to over 1500 youngsters – and subsequently…
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Asking that Queer Question
“There is no politically correct way to be gay in Pakistan. Your very existence is politically incorrect,†says a young person in Pakistan. Maria Amir investigates life for an oppressed minority.
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The Forgotten Language
By Salman Latif Urdu on its death bed? Language is not only a vehicle to transmit human thoughts and feelings, it also chronologizes human…
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Unopened Letters Sent Home : 1986 – 2061
Poetry meets prose
By Asmara Malik
Spotlight: Mohammad Ahsan Masood
Muhammad Ahsan Masood’s journey as an artist, exploring the oft-ignored sexuality of the male psyche in the context of Pakistan’s uneasy social and religious…
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Schroeder and Lucy, Nocturne #9
By Dolan Morgan The Peanut Gallery I was going to visit Lucy at her school, had saved up some money and gotten a plane…
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Spotlight: Fayez Ahmed Agariah
Fayez Ahmed Agariah, fashion designer extraordinaire graduated from London College of Fashion. His creations have a distinctly unique identity and serve as a visual…
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The Limit
By J. Scott Hardin Part One The old man had left with the dawn, gone home quietly – mercifully, without saying a word. Doubtless…
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Masturbation
Pleasure plays no part in this expo of inadequacy; every orgasm is a prayer, faithless but fiercely profound: please, send me someone. –Gareth Trew…
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