Geography of Tongues
“I am the map/ I am the cartographer// no sextant/ no compass/ only eyes/ ears and tongue.” By Shikha Malaviya.
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Hell Hath No Puri
“…the Puris, those witches, wanted man-/ bhaji. I bedded one—which I don’t know—/ so all three saw me as common property.” By Jeet Thayil.
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Elegy for the Gold Aunt
“Take my relation with her tongue restless as fire./ Take my relation with her legacy of shame.” By Minal Hajratwala.
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Two Wolves, Come Separately To A Wood
“I got hungrier and hungrier./ I chewed the trees like bones, I ate their meat.” By Aditi Machado.
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Alone As I Am / Jaise Main Tanha Hun
From our ninth issue, a beautiful poem by Azra Abbas translated from the Urdu by Muhammad Umar Memon
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The Rose
In Abdullah Hussein’s skillful story, the narrator is confronted by the anger and resentment of his childhood friend, Sarwat for treating her with gender-based assumptions, not as an individual in the final short story from our Freedom Issue.
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Whose Grave Is It that Lies by the Juniper Tree
Afzal Ahmed Syed (as translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi) contemplates mortality and immortality.
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Noor-e-Chashm
In “Noor-e-Chashmâ€, Mavra Rana interweaves a widow’s grief with memories of her late husband and their married life in a poem from our ninth issue featuring emerging Pakistani writers.
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Untitled
In “untitledâ€, Ilona Yusuf celebrates the rhythms of life: childhood puberty, marriage and death.
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Lullabies and Killers
In “Lullabies and Killersâ€, the poet juxtaposes survival against daily killings and burials. From our ninth issue.
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