Words Arwa A. Header Credits Lulua A. Kolkata precariously hangs as an “in-between”; a pendulum mid-swing from its colonial past as a port city and future as a globalised modern cosmopolis. Indeed, urban Kolkata can be re-imagined as Michael Foucault’s (1967) heterotopia, a suspended place of…
Words and Artwork Zaenab Baisaheba J. Imaduddin. (@zaenabimaduddin) Darkness to Light, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 16”x18” October 31, 2020 The human mind resides in a network of neural tissue. How can this corporeal matter, in its search for transcendence, transform itself into a…
Words Amatulla Z. Header Credits Alifiya M. (@alifillusions) August 18th 2020, pehli raat actually, was the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment to the constitution in the United States. This historic legislation gave women the right to vote, a much-celebrated milestone in womens’…
Words Zainab H. Header Credits Husayn S. (@husaynshaakir) The auspicious days of Ashara Mubaraka are always a new and pious start to a wonderful year. In fact, according to me, they’re a guide on how to live our years from thereon. This year Ashara Mubaraka was…
Art Credits Swipe left to view more images #1 Mariya Sh. Abizar Patanwala Instagram: @mariyabizar #2 Ruqaiyah Jambusarwala #3 Maryam Mufaddal Kagazwala #4 Ammar Abbasi #5 Kulsoom Mustafa #6 Rashida Saifuddin #7 Zahabia Kamus #8 Alefiya Taher Sadikot Instagram: @alef_ya #9 Sakina Rangwala Munira Rangwala…
Header Credits Alaifiyah J. (@create_and_escape) Words Zahabiya K. Is vaba me bhi Barakat chupi hui hai Dekho mumin ke gharo ko kaise masjid bana chuki hai Har ghar me ek imam, Ramazan o Muharram Azaan ki awaaz aur Husain ka pur josh matam Is vaba…
Words and Header Credits Amatullah Y. (@aayusufali) In the Abbasid Era, many people came from all over the world to Karbala for the ziarat of Imam HusainAS. The governor of Karbala did not like the pilgrimage of the shia who came and decreed that of…
Words Zainab Shakir. Header Credits @arinum_sarabar Ashara Mubarak was a memorable event which every mumin cherished dearly with their hearts, as it was commenced in their houses for the first time in history. The bounties of the heavens and angels were descended upon every home…
Art Credits Swipe left to view more images #1 and #2 Alaifiyah Jameel Instagram: @create_and_escape #3 Husayn Shakir Instagram: @husaynshaakir #4 Husain Badri #5 Fatema Aqil #6 Ajab Munir #7 #8 #9 #10 Fatima Khambati Instagram: @fatimas_art_studio…
Words Zahra K. (@zahrakudrati) Header Credits Ruqaiyah G. (@ruqs_g) Mufaddal Maula TUS has, time and again, made the most impossible possible for mumineen, with such ease. I am so grateful that I was born in this zamaan. Whoever thought that we would collectively get a chance to…