The wall begins where the land stops answering to its own laws. It snakes across the scrub like a concrete serpent, folding hills and dry riverbeds into its embrace, swallowing entire villages in its arc. It ignores the maps in government archives, preferring the ones it drafts itself. Inside, the air feels rehearsed. Fountains rise […]
The Green That Faded
Pakistan cricket has long been a source of national pride, an escape from the country’s everyday struggles, and, at times, a rare unifier in an otherwise divided society. In Pakistan, cricket is not just a sport—it’s muscle memory, a language spoken fluently in every street and drawing room. It’s the sound of a tape ball […]
Mustafa Zaidi and the Politics of Silence in Pakistan
The untimely death of Mustafa Zaidi, a brilliant poet and civil servant, remains one of the great mysteries of Pakistan’s literary and political history. Found lifeless in Karachi in 1970, alongside a socialite embroiled in scandal, Zaidi’s demise was ruled as a suicide—an explanation that raised more questions than it answered. More than half a […]