Included in this issue

Chowk . چوک
2025: Borders/Boundaries
۲۰۲۵: سرحدیں/حدود

Photography, September 2025
Who and How Am I
by Iswa Anjum

Photography, September 2025
Four Doors
by Mahnam Tanveer

Essay, September 2025
October of Sonipat
by Maaz Ahmed

Essay, July 2025
Pyaray Dost
by Duaa Amir

Art, April 2025
Resilient Roots
by Qinza Najm

Art, February 2025
Nomads Within the Modern City by Aiman Shahid

Poetry, December 2024
Wuthering Heights
by Mary Christina

Art, September 2024
Protest Self Portrait
by Zehra Haider

The artwork by "creature" shows two black rotary phones with white dials, one on each end of a horizontal banner, connected by a telephone cord. In the center of the cord are the words Trunk Call in white capital letters. There is a switchboard in the background.
artwork by creature

Shandana Minhas speaks to writers, artists, absurdists. listen to episodes here.

28 February 2025
with SABAHAT ZAKARIYA
Sabahat Zakariya is a writer, cultural critic and creator of iconoclastic videos. Her celebrated multimedia platform, Feminustani, has carved a new genre in the South Asian cultural space by excavating Pakistani popular culture for feminist and social critique. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are identity, creativity, saris, and Pakistani English language writing.

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