تعفن زدہ جوہڑ کے بیچوں بیچ گرد میں اٹی، سرمئ زلفوں میں چھپی ایک وجیہ صورت آج پھر ایک ہی تکرار پکڑے، ایک ہی دھن پر ایک ہی راگ الاپ رہی تھی۔ میرا ساون مجھ میں لوٹ آیا ہے جو مجھے مور ناچ دکھائے گا ایک ہفتہ ایک صدی پر محیط تھا شاید۔۔ایک اتوار سے دوسری اتوار […]
کون ہو تم ؟ کیوں تم میرا تعاقب کئے ہوئے ہو؟ میں تم سے ہمیشہ بھاگتی رہی تم سے بے حد نفرت کرتی رہی لیکن تم نے پھر بھی مجھے ڈھونڈ لیاآخر کیا چاہتی ہو تم؟اور کتنی اذیت دوگی مجھے ؟کیا تم بے خبر ہو میرے درد سے ؟ ایک بات کہوں ؟ تمھاری تپش نے مجھے اندر تک جھلسا دیا […]
قلب میں اک سوز ھے روح میں اک احساس ھے تلاش خدا میں گم ھےساقئ درویشی کےعجب رنگ ہیں باقی پاگل پن کے اس نگر میں رنگوں کی دھن سنائی دے بہتے دریا پریم گیت گاٸیں چلتی ہوا ہر سمت محبت کا پیغام دے آنکھوں میں عشق کا رنگ چڑھائے چھوڑکے ورد، وظیفے سارے رقصوں […]
Silence simply means muteness but it is the loudest thud once you penetrate yourself deeply into the density of silence. Some are like darkness-The way you yell for luminosity in deep darkness, you also yell and try to find voice in deep silence. These types of silences are just to scourge you. Whenever life turns […]
Back then, I never really knew how important mental health was until I experienced it. I always focused on physical health as number of people complain about their physical health. So, I chose to focus on it. But gradually, I realized the importance of mental health when I found myself completely trapped in the pit […]
Currently, Pakistan is encountered with multifaceted environmental concerns such as alteration of weather patterns, rapid urban sprawl, air quality deterioration, soaring land degradation, intensification of resource depletion and poor waste management system etc. In order to tackle such precarious situation, we have to know the causative factors and genesis behind such gigantic environmental catastrophe. Regrettably, […]
It wasn’t a dark cold shivery night With leaves swirling around with the wind Cool breeze, calming my anxious nerves When I felt this way, Just a normal day among the bunch of people Blaming me insane, for the curse filled pain Heaviest with unuttered words, bright sunny day When i felt this way, I […]
Annum Salman – an emerging artistic mind in the literary world is a Pakistani poetess. She has her MA in creative writing from the University of Surrey. Moreover, she is highly talented spoken word poetess who has acclaimed her guts on various literary platforms, at – Write Out Loud, 1000 Monkeys, Surrey’s New Writers Festival […]
They said they cared about me. They said they loved me. So why is it that every time I tried to tell them how I’ve been feeling for the past couple of days, they turned a blind eye to every tear that fell from my eye? I was only a friend or a lover when […]
Dear Diary, There is a girl that has been coming to my clinic for the past couple of weeks. Her name is Julie. She has copper brown eyes, jet black hair and snow white skin. I don’t know why but she seems different than all of the other patients. Maybe it’s because she reminds me […]
