Tobha Tek Singh by Saadat Hasan Manto

A repost introducing Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story ‘Tobha Tek Singh’, about an asylum inmate caught in the absurdity of Partition.

tum bilkul ham jaise nikale

Fahmida Riaz’s poem tells India it has ‘turned out just like us,’ comparing rising Hindu majoritarianism to Pakistan’s own history of religious fundamentalism.

Earthquake

A poem noting how an earthquake ignores borders, passports, and religion while dividing humans build and destroy such barriers themselves.

Tobha Tek Singh

Presents Saadat Hasan Manto’s classic story about an asylum inmate caught in the absurd madness of India-Pakistan Partition.

ਸਿਤਾਰੋਂ ਸੇ ਆਗੇ ਜਹਾਂ ਔਰ ਭੀ ਹੈਂ

Muhammad Iqbal’s Urdu poem urging the soul to rise like a falcon beyond worldly limits toward higher goals and the trials of love.