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COLUMN: Fatima Ijaz: The Lions of Ypsi (Creative Memoir)
Those days I used to whistle to the elite silence of the university – they had given us these whistles so as not to disturb our night...
Fatima Ijaz
Oct 14, 20222 min read
COLUMN: Fatima Ijaz: My cronica on occasion of TFH's 12th Death Anniversary
In the past some years I have struggled very hard to understand 'realism.' Given that it was the popular, ruling, rational narrative - I...
Fatima Ijaz
Sep 22, 20221 min read
Song of Surrender (to my old and future students)
Be a lover of books but talk to people as well about them. Make friends, start amongst yourselves - but don't stop there. Take your books...
Fatima Ijaz
Sep 13, 20221 min read


COLUMN: FATIMA IJAZ: Why write a poem at all?
Why write a poem at all? by Fatima Ijaz Poetry is internal breathing. It is the reason to go on living. It is life after death. It is the...
Fatima Ijaz
Sep 12, 20221 min read
COLUMN: Fatima Ijaz: Love's Labor's Lost
5th September ' 22, Labor Day, USA. I'd like to talk about Ayn Rand today. I feel she is one of the most misunderstood writers of modern...
Fatima Ijaz
Sep 5, 20222 min read
LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF HINDI SONG: YAAR MOD DO
Dedication: To TFH and other teachers Find song video here: Song video of Yaar Mod do Word meanings: Sama = time Vee = also See = a Ai =...
Fatima Ijaz
Sep 3, 20221 min read
COLUMN: FATIMA IJAZ: Neo-Pakistani-Negritude Manifesto
Black Tea-Coffee Jaisa, The Imagined Other The certain tea of his voice seeped into his skin and through my soul into my hands. I have...
Fatima Ijaz
Aug 30, 20222 min read
COLUMN: TAHA KEHAR: A storyteller's sawdust
Ramiz often embellishes the truth with the occasional lies. Peppered with a storyteller's sawdust, his stories about our shared childhood...
Fatima Ijaz
Aug 30, 20223 min read
COLUMN: FATIMA IJAZ: On love, heartbreak and writer's block
WRITER'S BLOCK I Writer's Block in Pale Moonlight The idea was hitting me like quiet, pale blue mid-light. I had a voice. It was in the...
Fatima Ijaz
Aug 28, 202212 min read
COLUMN: TAHA KEHAR: The lover who broke your silences
I saw what they couldn't see. You always told me that you felt emotionally naked in front of me, as if your words would perform a...
Fatima Ijaz
Aug 28, 20223 min read
COLUMN: FATIMA IJAZ: On love, heartbreak and writer's block
WRITER'S BLOCK I Writer's Block in Pale Moonlight The idea was hitting me like quiet, pale blue mid-light. I had a voice. It was in the...
Fatima Ijaz
Aug 28, 202212 min read


COLUMN: Taha Kehar: The lover who broke your silences
I saw what they couldn't see. You always told me that you felt emotionally naked in front of me, as if your words would perform a...
Fatima Ijaz
Aug 28, 20223 min read


The Birth of this Blog, Place: Quetta, Pakistan
Fatima Ijaz and Taha Kehar were invited to the Quetta Literary Festival 2022, in the capacity of artists - poet and novelist. In the...
Fatima Ijaz
Aug 28, 20221 min read
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