Sameer Mehrab
The story of Master, Doctor, Shepherd and God
Master’s wife prepared breakfast for him: milk tea and parathas, a crispy oily bread. The smell of burning wood was mixed with the scent...
Prisoners of darkness
In times my cell is darker than a womb but lack the warmth of it.
It’s cold – soul-clenching cold.
I look at the vertical scratches...
Escape in numbness
I’m numb as wood
And I can’t feel a thing
No matter how much sex I have,
Or drink like a fish,
Or smoke like a Victorian chimney,
I...
Rushdie’s ‘Shame’ depicts Baloch genocide and Pakistan’s evils
Salman Rushdie is best known in the Muslim world for his less-read controversial book Satanic Verses, and in literary world, for Midnight’s Children which...