Posts Tagged With: Politics
Tinker, Teller
Omair Ahmad’s “The Storyteller’s Tale” opens with a poet in front of an open road. Behind him is a city he loved. One that was known for its beauty and now it is burning, ravaged, destroyed. A city that can no longer afford indulgences like poetry and poets. The poet, who speaks some of Ghalib‘s [...]
Categories: Current affairs, Literature
Tags: Literature, Omair Ahmad, Pakistan, Politics
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World view
There’s a friend of mine who believes that the universe gives her signs to help her negotiate the mad, bad world. Generally, these signs come through the songs that play in her iPod when she sets it in the “shuffle” mode. This actually came out when a bunch of us had gathered to help a [...]
World Domination
