Alizah Hashmi

Featured Image: Waseem Iqbal This short story was long-listed for the 2019 Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Pakistani Women. . .…

Featured Artwork: Hildibrand Colonial hangover is an extensively discussed subject in the subcontinent, with many of its educated elite openly denouncing it,…

How many mothers, how many children? How many girls, how many bodies? How many years of Barbarity Hunger Undue Thirst Tragedy Obliteration?…

I’ve written short stories for as long as I can remember. If I re-read them now they go from being painfully hormonal,…

Early March 2019, I walked past security into Sindh’s magnificent Governor House. The inaugural Adab Festival – a three-day event to celebrate…

you’re at a lunch party, talking lessforking a bruschetta, careful not to make a messthinking of a cheeseburger, of the galaxies and…

Featured Artwork: Kim Salt Being in an all-female Facebook group with thousands of members is tough. The daily drill is almost nauseous.…

This story has no agenda. It is derived from one of many true stories, only a small anecdote from the horrific trials…

Do you ever notice how menstrual sanitary equipment is to be kept out of sight at all times but when you ask…

The argument is often made that social media is a harbinger of freedom of expression into the 21st century — but is…

UN sustainable development goal 4.1 demands the provision of ‘free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education’ to all boys and girls.…

You’re a student with no talents — the one that doesn’t know how to sing, or play the piano, or ice-skate. You…