Issue 3, March 2026

Much to our own (pleasant) surprise we are bringing you the March issue, our third, of The Peshawar Review.

For our inaugural issue in January we had suggested the theme of literature that had affected our lives in one way or another. The one contribution we received in response to the request was Radhika Yeddanapudi’s youthful encounter with Jane Eyre. With a lag, this issue offers two more recollections: Anjum Altaf recalls the impact on his life of reading Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Wilfred Owen between school and college; Faizan Aslam Soofi discovers in college a new way of seeing, and flying, with Toni Morrison.

We have an intriguing Urdu short story by Raja Shehzad translated by Shueyb Gandapur that speculates whether language alters the way we look at ourselves, our world, and others. Ahmed Kamran, in stories about the city of stories, brings alive a lost history of the forgotten heroes of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who dedicated their lives to the dream of justice and equality for all.

We are grateful to our contributors for supporting our vision to make The Peshawar Review a byword for narratives of quality and interest.