Peshawar
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Epstein in Peshawar: Not a Financier, Not Just a Predator
X.T.M reads a 2013 Jeffrey Epstein email from Peshawar as a field report on tribal and official contacts and polio funding. He argues it shows Epstein as an access broker…
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why romanticism?
A poem defending romanticism in a capitalist, post-ideological world, with a note explaining Lacan’s “Real”.
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Against Platonic Love
The writer introduces an interview with the Urdu poet Ahmad Faraz, whom he ranks behind Faiz, and translates Faraz’s answer rejecting platonic love in favour of passionate, complete love for…
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A flying peacock
Furqan Ali describes seeing a peacock fly in a village near Peshawar and shares the poem it inspired.
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Massacre of the Innocents: Death Comes Again to Peshawar
A response to the Army Public School massacre in Peshawar, describing the attackers as trained men following rules they drew from sharia, and arguing the army has not abandoned its…
