We are all migrants through time.
Thus in the end their relationship did in some senses come to resemble that of siblings, in that friendship was its strongest element, and unlike many passions, theirs managed to cool slowly, without...
So what's Pakistan like? she asked. I told her Pakistan was many things, from seaside to desert to farmland stretched between rivers and canals; I told her that I had driven with my parents and my bro...
She slips her arm around my shoulders and cradles my head against her breast.We breathe together. Slowly.Time passes, flowing, a long, less and less painful sigh. And I shut my eyes.Pain becomes only...
Perhaps it is because novels are like affairs, and small novels - with fewer pages of plot to them - are affairs with less history, affairs that involved just a few glances across a dinner table or a...
Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians.
Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War
Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the A...
It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, (...), and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plau...
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and pu...
Here we are not squeamish when it comes to facing the consequences of our desire.
He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.
But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin.
But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin. I
But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me...
A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human...
Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a stutter, or a shiver, that would not let go, for his sense of loss was boundless, and hi...
When it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, th...
What is natural in one place can seem unnatural in another, and some concepts travel rather poorly, if at all.
Most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.