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Dreaming in Blue

2 months ago | medium.com | Maria Khalid

Armor Poetry at Paper PoetryFading and then risingMaria Khalid·FollowPublished inPaper Poetry·2 min read·--Image created by the author using Canva. Wave IHow do you walk through the blue? Nothing enters. Nothing leaves. Blankness stares back. Where the thoughts hang in limbo — seeing life through the cracks,stepping back and seeing it all,piece by piece;a shroud to pass through nothingness,through madness,through an abyss. Wave IIHow do you create from nothingness?
Memory of a Broken Paradise

Dec 6, 2024 | medium.com | Maria Khalid

BOOK REVIEW | INSURGENCY HISTORY | COMMENTDream of a Shared PastMaria Khalid·FollowPublished inburnttoasts·3 min read·--Rebels, insurgents, minorities, authority, government, majority. Can all these coexist in a history narrative? Can they share history and have a truth and reconciliation moment? Can they avoid being morally superior in all their wrongdoings? It’s nearly impossible. History can either be nationalistic, erasing all that fail to comply.
How Much a Heart Can Take?

Nov 22, 2024 | medium.com | Maria Khalid

PATTERN POETRY AT PAPER POETRY Some questions for the self Maria Khalid · Follow Published in Paper Poetry · 2 min read · -- Photo by Ricardas Brogys on Unsplash one wonders how much a heart can take like how far can you walk with swollen feet or how can you walk against violent winds or how can you wade through a river with crazy currents or how far can you stroll on a lonely highway or how far can you go in a city where you can’t read the signboards or why do you go on a path which leads to...
The Forgotten Princess

Nov 8, 2024 | medium.com | Maria Khalid

POETRY ON LOST HISTORYBeyond the ruinsMaria Khalid·FollowPublished inThe Lark·2 min read·--Photo by Annie Spratt on UnsplashITell me a taleof a forgotten language. How it trickleddown to extinction,like the notes of a broken symphonyfalling out into the abyss,like the little white wavesdisappearing in a fathomless sea. IIA soulful melodyin which two loversonce conversedin rhymes and imagery — reverie of a faraway landin a palatial gardenof what now is a crowdedlandscape of lost dreams.
Firaaq

Nov 4, 2024 | medium.com | Maria Khalid

POEM FOR PARTINGThe language of separationMaria Khalid·FollowPublished inKnow Thyself, Heal Thyself·2 min read·--Photo by Freddy Kearney on UnsplashDoes separation feel the same in every language? In mine, it is called Firaaq*. Like you can repeat it under your breathand feel the heaviness of the syllablesdrowning your heart. Or if you utter it thoughtfully,then it disappearslike a stone in a blind well.
When the Heart Beats Fast

Sep 30, 2024 | medium.com | Maria Khalid

EVERY HEARTBEAT COUNTSLearning to Appreciate Pulse of EverydaynessMaria Khalid·FollowPublished inKnow Thyself, Heal Thyself·3 min read·--Photo by Anastasia Voronina on UnsplashSometimes the heart beats fast. Faster than usual. As if it forgets its usual rhythm. Arrhythmia that’s what they call it. Pacing to the beat of 240. So what was it thinking while racing this fast. Not thinking, but pumping more than the normal load. They injected once. Telling you that it will sink your heart for a few seconds.
Anthem

Sep 19, 2024 | mariyakhaled.medium.com | Maria Khalid

We go by the book For smaller populations,Shoot, Hang, or Bulldoze. We go by the bookBombard, Bombard, or BombardBigger groups only. We go by the book. For any unseen errors,Tribunals function. We go by the book. The grand judiciary said,'Mishtake ho gaya'*We go by the book. Just check how quickly we canCorrect history.
Computation | Free Full-Text | Application of an Extended Cubic B-Spline to Find the Numerical Solution of the Generalized Nonlinear Time-Fractional Klein-Gordon Equation in Mathematical Physics

Apr 10, 2024 | mdpi.com | Miguel Vivas-Cortez |M. J. Huntul |Maria Khalid |Madiha Shafiq

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Traveling Through History: A Chronicle of a Different World

Jan 25, 2024 | mariyakhaled.medium.com | Maria Khalid

The world witnessed unprecedented geopolitical alignments and drastic upheavals in the most decisive decade of the Cold War, the 1980s, which ultimately proved to be the beginning of the end of bipolarity. The two divergent philosophies — Capitalism and Communism, had evolved into massive blocs, each unwilling to accept the existence of the other.
A People's Narrative of 1971

Aug 10, 2023 | mariyakhaled.medium.com | Maria Khalid

(This book review was first published in The Friday Times of July 25, 2023)The events surrounding the Fall of Dhaka - 1971 remain shrouded in a narrative marred by omissions, lies, and silences in Pakistan. The state historiography of the three countries, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India, appropriated this chapter of history according to their own nationalistic aspirations.