INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE
Spoiler Alert: Dying Person Dies by Irta Usman | Fiction
Punne by Rashid Jahan, translated by Tehseen Baweja | Fiction
Poetry on Drums by Muneeb Ilyas | Essay
Between Places : A Conversation with Sayera Anwar by Rabia Malik | Interview
Geographies : A Conversation with Feryal Ali-Gauhar by Farah Ali | Interview
Another Life by Hamza Azhar | Poetry
!کمرہ اندر سے بند by Saad Jabbar | Poetry
The World After by Fatima Malik | Poetry
No Fun for Nazia by Leena Sohaib | Books
Self Discovery by Tamreez Inam | Books
From the archives
Fiction | Horrors Under the Eclipse by Harris Gondal
Essay | The Money Plant by Tabinda Khurshid
Essay | After Winter by Samee Ahmad
Interview | داستان گوئی : A Conversation with Hammad Rind by Bareerah Ghani
Translations of a poem into a different language by various writers
Urdu to English
نظم ۔ تہذیب حافی
notes and translations by ٖFatima Shafi, Mehak F. Khan, Asna Nusrat, and Sakina Hassan
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.
Submissions for Chowk, ‘Borders/Boundaries – سرحدیں/حُدود’, are open.
Lakeer Summer Mentorship Program: Applications for 2025 will be open
1 April 2025–30 April 2025. Details of the program can be found here.