Mushtaque B Barq

Myth graphic narrative

Myth graphic narrative

From Ayesha’s Diary

The eagles up above the world of men were whirling. No, not in the manner a dervish circumambulates. The whirl was massive. All the eagles following the instructions were creating the ferocious circle in the backyard were on the beds of Gillsar dwellers usually dump their filth. Ayesha lifted her head from the pillow and […]

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Punishment

Punishment

Drooped neck coiled behind the iron bars, Danish was down like an inert stack. His limbs like his bald head were portraying nothing__Nothing momentous.  A monotonous look of his bald head held between those frail arms appeared cemented and controlled.  His neck was naked like a freshly ravished hilltop after a bombardment to yield minerals […]

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Wobbling verses

Wobbling verses

Afzal that day had put in extra efforts to prepare his lecture for the classroom. He was keen to administrate something new into the very succulent tissues of his students which had dried due to routine packing of stuff. He started as usual by greeting the students in his unique way by raising his cap […]

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I HAVE NOTHING TO WRITE    (From Ayesha’s Diary)

I HAVE NOTHING TO WRITE    (From Ayesha’s Diary)

When life out of the blue brings to a standstill mode grudgingly, the hemorrhaged pupil fails to open its aperture and the world undergoes a severe change. A change that one never expects because one lives under the garbage of his own fancies. The chill of such severity, when the mind goes blank and the […]

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And they return over and again

And they return over and again

Just when Romeo was planning to visit Juliet under the canopy of a starry night in her balcony, Laila was awakened by the noise in the backyard. Romeo succeeded in giving the guards a slip but Laila failed to go down the lane to know the exact cause of the noise.  Juliet was over the […]

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Scream!

Scream!

Her screams carry the echo of merciless pain to every corner of the ward. In general wards thin curtains only separate the patience yet they are connected, connected through tribulations, plight and fear of losing the battle. They despite separation share their invisible agonies either in the form of occasional cries or sighs. Even prayers […]

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Smile Please…it Matters

Smile Please…it Matters

He was there like a rock, ready to give tough time to one and all. Even the splashes from the open lane after the rubber and rubble rumbled with filth hardly hampered his hanging around. His shoulders like his broad forehead had a verse of old bard well preserved. Between those lanes of the past, […]

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Graves too speak

Graves too speak

Graves too speak; all you need is to appreciate the metaphor of death. These graves are homes-eternal couches on which our malevolence, mundanity and acquisitiveness are operated upon to feed micro populace not easy to detect by naked eye.  Just after the invasion, one enters into a micro phase of life. A phase one never […]

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   Status of Hazrat Imam Husain (Allah be pleased with him)

   Status of Hazrat Imam Husain (Allah be pleased with him)

The catastrophic occurrence of Karbala is not a plain chronicle of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad SAW and the beloved son of Hazrat Ali and Fatima (Allah be pleased with them) but a sincere attempt at safeguarding the ideology of Islam. Husain’s RA performance is associated with the collective life of the Muslim Ummah.  […]

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Khaliq Kaka

Khaliq Kaka

As usual he banged the door so early to deliver the morning bread. Birds by the farthest casualness might forget to chirrup, but Khaliq Kaka would never fail to remember knocking at the doors early morning. At times his banging serves like morning news authenticating that the rest is alright outside.  The day he knocks […]