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Bird DroppingsJuly 29, 2012

Bird Droppings #1: The Self-Obsessed…

By TMS Staff

“Bird Droppings” are twitter-based tweets and / or vents reflecting socially or culturally stigmatic situations that have their authors at their wits’ end. The…

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Cover image, illustrated by Nabiha Zeeshan
Bird DroppingsJuly 22, 2012

Bird Droppings #1: The Know-it-All

By TMS Staff

“Bird Droppings” are twitter-based tweets and / or vents reflecting socially or culturally stigmatic situations that have their authors at their wits’ end. The…

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Cover image, illustrated by Nabiha Zeeshan
Bird DroppingsJuly 15, 2012

Bird Droppings #1: Thanks, but no thanks…

By TMS Staff

“Bird Droppings” are twitter-based tweets and / or vents reflecting socially or culturally stigmatic situations that have their authors at their wits’ end. The…

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Cover image, illustrated by Nabiha Zeeshan
Bird DroppingsJuly 8, 2012

Bird Droppings #1: Public opinion…

By TMS Staff

    “Bird Droppings” are twitter-based tweets and / or vents reflecting socially or culturally stigmatic situations that have their authors at their wits’…

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Bird DroppingsJuly 1, 2012

Bird Droppings #1: Greetings from twitter

By The Missing Slate Editors

    The Missing Slate approached Maheen Rahman for a collaborative web-exclusive venture that would have her “bitchy” tweets meld with our creative team….

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The Devil's in the RemoteJune 26, 2012

Of Aliens, Westerns and Aaron Sorkin

By Maryam Piracha

Before starting this post, I was torn at the title but at the end figured may as well leave the snark for the reviews….

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Embracing Life and Death by Syed Ali Wasif
PoetryJune 19, 2012

Darwin and the Wasp – A Sceptic’s Sestina

By Camille Ralphs

By Camille Ralphs

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Fiction, LiteratureJune 19, 2012

Slumming it in Silicon Valley

By B.A. Krishna

By B.A. Krishna

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PoetryJune 19, 2012

Anonymous Night

By Alyssa Yankwitt

By Alyssa Yankwitt

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Featured Articles, MagazineJune 19, 2012

The Revolving Doors of Publishing

By Sana Hussain

“A literature such as ours, which is slowly maturing and coming into its own, is often hauled over the coals for being elitist, or unrepresentative of the “true” Pakistan,” writes Sana Hussain. This generalization betrays the talent the industry has produced.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.