The artwork by Adeela Khan is a sketch of hands - open or closed, formed into fists or turned palm up. Bright green, pink, blue, orange and yellow daubs of color are behind the hands, mostly in the top part of the work.
Lakeer
Issue Two
Spring 2024

FICTION

سبھا
by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from English by Nuzhat Nisar

فیصلہ

by Syed Hur Abbas

I Like the Texture of Things

by Uswa Maryam

مسز کینیڈی اور شتربان
by Hammad Rind, from his novel “Four Dervishes”

Aunty
by Nilofer Iqbal, translated from Urdu by Amna Chaudhry

ESSAYS

Ports

by Bassam Sidiki

After Winter

by Samee Ahmad

POETRY

a defiance

by Hananah Zaheer

وقت کے سرد خانے کی سازش

by Waqas Manzoor

کہنے اور کرنے کو جہاں جی میں

by Maryam Naveed

At seeing a spider, in Fall

by Hananah Zaheer

Intercity Ghosts

by Ibrahim Tanweer

اس نے  مجھے برسوں بعد خط لکھا ہے

by Maryam Naveed

Partition
by Hasan Mujtaba, translated from Punjabi by Haider Shahbaz

Untitled
by Hasan Mujtaba, translated from Urdu by Haider Shahbaz

The Marchers Have Reached the Capital
by Sakina Hassan

INTERVIEW

داستان گوئی : A Conversation with Hammad Rind
by Bareerah Y. Ghani

ON THE COVER

“Untitled“

by Adeela Khan

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