Somewhere in a remote wilderness we would discover a hermitage With your crimson lips you would whisper sweetnesses I would gather splinters you would kindle the fire My hands would go numb you would wipe my fingers This moment could…
Bari La Deosai – Land of the Dead A hasty plan landed us in Deosai on the morning of Saturday. We planned it out on text messages and decided we will be travelling to Bari La in Deosai. ‘La’ is a Balti word for mountain pass and Bari La is…
All the past losses All the past hurts All the past murders All the past lies All gone Just like that. Welcome to Independence Day! Just like that We are told we are free. What if: our losses don’t stop; Our hurts deepen; More…
Water is a valuable resource which is unfortunately finite. In Gilgit-Baltistan this resource is mainly present in the form of large glaciers, with some of them placed in the list of largest glaciers of the world outside polar regions.…
Swat, Pakistan, year 2007. The Taliban partly deface the Jahanabad Buddha, a colossal sculpture (ca. 7th century CE), which corroborates a past of mosaic intertwined by empires, religions, and peoples.
Prelude: At five o’clock in the afternoon It is five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun begins to disappear through the verdant mountains. The valleys, where life and death dwell side by side, swallow the sun. Through the cardinals of…
