Current issue
One Lasting Desire Despite It All by Fatima Jafar

Chowk
CyberLahore by Hazem Asif

Avaaz
Cymraeg/Welsh: Against All Odds by Hammad Rind

Current issue
‘Death & Flowers’: Ali Baluch on Recording the Demise of the Malir River by Omair Danish

Chowk
Don’t Light Up the Dark by Khadeeja Bilqees

Poetic Renditions
Urdu to English: غزل ۔ ناصر کاظمی

Current issue
After a deadly aerial engagement, a cup of tea by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

Fiction | مسز کینیڈی اور شتربان by Hammad Rind, translated by the author

Books | Self Discovery by Tamreez Inam

Poetry |Intercity Ghosts by Ibrahim Tanweer

ٖPoetry | 1974, Ali vs Foreman by Jaweerya Mohammad

Fiction | فیصلہ by Syed Hur Abbas

Interview | Opposing Forces: Lariab Ahmad on What Drives Her As An Artist by A Arain

Cover of Issue Eight, by Iman Ahmed. It shows a floral pattern on a carpet.

Included in this issue

We Learned Hunger in English by Mahin Wahla ||
A conversation between a woman and the last wild witness by Zainab Jokhio ||
مونگ پھلی by سید قمر عباس اراجی ||
Five Hundred Words a Day: Creativity in the Time of Monsters by Sakina Hassan ||
Tending to the Indoor Garden (detail 3) by Iman Ahmed ||
The Woman Who Wants Everything: An Interview with Dur e Aziz Amna by Anum Asi

Avaaz . آواز
by Hammad Rind

Island Tongues: The Coexisting Literary Languages of Sri Lanka
جزیرے کی زبانیں: سری لنکا کی ادبی آوازیں

Cymraeg/Welsh: Against All Odds
قمبری/ویلش: ایک زبان سو رکاوٹیں

Chowk . چوک
2026: Transformations
۲۰۲۶: تبدیلیاں

Art, August 2026
CyberLahore
by Hazem Asif

Essay, July 2026
Sherengul Deserved a Word
by Ayesha Farooq

Essay, July 2026
Don’t Light Up the Dark
by Khadeeja Bilqees

Essay, May 2026
Chooriyan: An Archive
by Maryam Zahid

Poetry, May 2026
if there were bogs in Pakistan
by Afifa Amer

Art, April 2026
The Gaze by Saniah Umer

artwork by Maliha Hasan

Maliha Hasan and Aima Tariq speak with editors Bareerah Ghani and Sidra Hassan
Watch the conversation here

Poetic Renditions

Urdu to English

غزل ۔ ناصر کاظمی
Mumtaz Mohiuddin, Kate Roy, Abdul Sabur Kidwai, Fuzaila Khan, Farhan Farooq Wani, Parul Behl, Amna Ali Khan, Ali Arif, Siddiqua Fatima Virji, and Shah Faisal Mushtaq.
Guest edited by Naima Rashid.

Gujarati to English

મળે ન મળે – આદિલ મન્સૂરી 
Male Na Male – Adil Mansuri
Rohee Dholakia and Meena Desai. Edited by Saniyah Salman.

Punjabi to English

ٹبہ ٹویا اک برابر ۔ تجمل کلیم
Jasdeep Singh and Ayesha Waheed. Edited by Mahin Zia.

Urdu to English

لاہور کی ایک سنیک بار کے نام ۔ سرمد صہبائی
Bilal Tanweer, Sarmad Sehbai, and Sherdil Awais Rashid. Guest edited by Bilal Tanweer.

 

English to Urdu

Making a Fist – Naomi Shihab Nye
Sukhan, Iqra Khan, Taran Khan, and Asad Hussain. Edited by Iraj Toosy.

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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