Thambi, Thambi
When I stepped out of our home to move to the new school in the city and choked on the…
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Stories
The Beginning
خواجہ سرا کی بد دعا
Translated from English to Urdu by Anwar Shahid Khan and Taimoor Shahid
The Present
Every couple of years, my mother, restless in retirement instructs me to sort through my belongings, allegedly so I may…
Deficiency Notice
1 At 2pm, steaming bowls of food are laid on the laminate dining table: plump white rice, curried ladies’ fingers,…
Principles of Accounting
‘One more of these, Malli!’ he calls to the waiter, tapping a plump forefinger against the empty tumbler in front…
A Groom Like Shahrukh
Paro and Manju, bosom friends, had a common love interest: Shahrukh Khan. The epiphany of their love happened as they…
Relative Distance
I had forgotten how steep the staircases were in these pre-war buildings. The Airbnb I had rented for our holiday…
Khicheenk!
My mother married my father because her husband died, and my father married my mother because his wife passed away.…
The Khwaja Sira’s Curse
Translated from English to Urdu by Anwar Shahid Khan and Taimoor Shahid
THIS CORONAVIRUS BUSINESS
Gautam, of course, was prepared for the pandemic before it even hit. He had become increasingly taken with alternative medicine…
The Mogra Flowers
A young woman asked a lady in her early fifties, reading the Bhagwad Gita on a bench, how she was.…
Holding the Fingers of Water
ma rubs asafoetida and ginger oil on Dida’s mushroom belly her voice a needle on the record of an…
The Story of a Wounded healer
The usual beeps and toots emanated from the Boyle’s apparatus, the machine delivering anaesthesia which was at the head of…
A Familiar Disquiet
A prayer call pierced the cool evening air. It had rained, and the street outside was washed clean of the…
The Kite
The basant party is the first event Khalida attends as a wife. As a mistress, daytime invitations were seldom extended…