Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,
You feel a love you know you will never be able to adequately explain or express to him, a love that flows one way, down the generations, not in reverse, and is understood and reciprocated only when t...
Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that—in my humble opinion—allows us to put the present into much better perspective.
To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.
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...
The maid was of an age at which men had stopped seeing her. She had had the body of a woman when she was still a girl, when she was married off, so young, and her body had ripened further after she bi...
The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military.
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's more of a novella than a novel. It leaves space for your thoughts to echo.
It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .
It was a summer of great rumblings in the belly of the earth, of atomic flatulence and geopolitical indigestion, consequences of the consumption of sectarian chickpeas by our famished and increasingly...
It seems that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart.
It is the first visit in many years for your son, finally a citizen of his new country and free to travel, and you try to suppress your undercurrent of resentment at his decision to absent himself fro...
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...
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group.
In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.