It started with this question, casually posed during our writer’s group meeting on Zoom: “Would you be interested in creating a literary magazine?” Everyone on the Zoom was interested and with some brainstorming, that question has blossomed into a full-fledged literary magazine. It is always a beautiful thing to…

It’s been a few years since I started tracking the books that I am reading on Goodreads and I am always amazed when I discover how many books I am able to go through in 365 days. This year, I am told that the 87 books that I have…

 
April 
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmed. Sent back to his birthplace–Lahore’s notorious red-light district–to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past.Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore’s walled inner city, where women…