Tolstoevsky

So, the Pashtun stereotype is their good storyline, huh?

-کاکاجي صنوبر حسېن مومند

“Bolshevism plus God is almost Islam.” —Iqbal, Letter to Francis Younghusband

Ahmad was of prominence among the USian left. He mingled with the likes of Chomsky, Said, & Zinn. As much as people love to think Ahmad as an icon he was problematic. He went to Beirut to convince Arafat to give up armed struggle against Isntreal.

What if Chekhov Had Lived in #Pakistan? “This Is Where the Serpent Lives,” by Daniyal Mueenuddin, recalls the power of Russian classics. nytimes.com/2026/01/05/boo… via @NYTimes

@tufaill_ تم آئے تو کیا لاؤ گے ہم آئے تو کیا دو گے

@Mirzamadak تهٔ هم نهٔ راځې چې يو څو قلمي نسخې درته پهٔ اوږه کړم.

@tufaill_ مه خرابيږئ

salman khan's post for his friend who passed away is his ulysses (complimentary)

قام او کافکا چرته ښهٔ ورځ نهٔ ده ليدلې.

@KAMRANK99206987 Send me your address and a 150-word essay on why you deserve the annotated copy of Hugo’s Les Miserables. I will consider it.

@tufaill_ مشره صدقه دی نه کوله؟

@shah_obaid مينه په مثل د سُليمان باچا غمې دې. /#رحمان_بابا

@tufaill_ مینہ حُسن جوڑ کی بیہ پہ شی منیہ میانہ

زهٔ د يار ميني په يار باندې شېدا کړم که څوک ما ګڼي زهٔ نهٔ يم واړه دې دې [Za da yar meene Pa yar bande shaida kram Ka sok ma ganrhee za na yam warha dey de] With the love from the Beloved I love to fall in love My love is emanating from the brimming of that love. —Rahman Baba

@Aalamtab1 I’ll give it a try! I’d love to translate it and also connect Plath’s ‘Mirror’ to one of Shaida’s couplets, where he offers a contrasting view. He sees the mirror’s existence as an illusion. سکونت دې پهٔ اختيار نهٔ دې تمثاله آرائش پهٔ آئينو د ديوار مهٔ کړه

@tufaill_ You should translate to Pashto. Please!

“Mirror” –by Sylvia Plath

Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart

During the height of terrorism in KP, suicide bombings were so normalised that a Pashto song titled ‘Khudkasha Dhamaka Yama’ featured a female proudly praising her own beauty… as a suicide bomber.

Faiz Sahab’s Homage to Leo Tolstoy:

God bless Prof. Paul Cantor @shakespearefcg?si=OxUQGuxeJz3rnbgL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@shakespearefc…