Lakeer
Included in this issue
| Essay
| Fiction
تیسرے دن by Najwan Darwish, translated by Hammad Rind
| Poetry
| Poetry
Mengal by Julien Columeau, translated
by Haider Shahbaz
| Fiction
| Essay
| Poetry
| Fiction
From the archives
Essay | Ports
by Bassam Sidiki
A handsome attendant rolled me toward my uncle’s SUV. When I had settled into the passenger seat, he said with some emotion in his voice and some pity in his eyes, “Best of luck to you.”
Fiction | Unrest
by Zuneera Shah
for it was foremostly her sadness, then her sister’s, then the two brothers’ and so on, for sadness had to be segmented then distributed then possessed—her spectators kept the first watch. It was only when Zeba finally looked up that the witnesses, sensing in this gesture an invitation, rushed towards her.
Interview | داستان گوئی : A Conversation with Hammad Rind by Bareerah Ghani
"So, when you go back to the early days of the novel, or even earlier, for example, the work by Boccaccio, Decameron, the ten stories which are being told by these feudal lords and ladies who are confined in a villa outside Florence because of the Black Death. They are telling each other a story to amuse each other."
Poetry | God Rides the Subway on Sundays
by Eleen Raja
I always dreamed of being a home
like all poets for things
that we may never hear outside of water
Could a Tadpole define death?
Poetry | Origin Story
by Javeria Hasnain
All origin stories contain indigeneity
& indigeneity eludes me.
Our people call each other muhajir.
(I am an immigrant in my own city.)
Translations of a poem into a different language by various writers
Urdu to English
ہمیشہ قتل ہو جاتا ہوں میں ۔ جون ایلیاء
notes and translations by Amama Bashir, Javeria Hasnain, Shandana Minhas, Yusra Amjad and Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
from SEPTEMBER 2024
Poetry
Zinfandel Grapes
by Hibah Shabkhez
from AUGUST 2024
Art
Imam-e-Har Zamaaan
by Balach Khan
from JUNE 2024
Essay
Language
by Amama Bashir
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