Hope is a Pain-Killer
Osama of GreenWhite.org tagged me on FaceBook to describe a metaphor that I would use for ‘hope’. I would have shied away from such an invitation, but since Osama’s objective is to “get people talking”...
View ArticleLahore Bloggers Meetup 2008
A few hours ago, I came back from the Lahore Bloggers’ Meetup, held at LUMS today. Before I lose the motivation, and since I feel very guilty about being called a blogger with my posting frequency (1...
View ArticleBored?
Are you bored? Do you have ٰnothing to doٰ? I salute you! You, my friend, are a buddha-in-the-making. Actually, you are better than Buddha. Buddha he did not have instantaneous access to the all the...
View ArticleYour Brain: Your Garden
My son likes to watch Mr. Bean, which is a little worrisome for me, as I do not believe in ‘harmless and silly fun’. While good humor and puns certainly stimulate your brain-cells (aka neurons), I...
View ArticleLahore Metblogs Widget
Metblogs just introduced a cool widget to embed any metblog post on your own blog. Since I am a Lahore Metblogs author by virtue of writing a few posts there, so I thought I’d check the (beta) embed...
View ArticleDeath to All Juice
When I posted this picture of a supposedly Muslim guy in New York holding a sign saying “Death to all Juice“, I did not know that the image was not a solo incident, but part of a series – the...
View ArticleBlack Labels
Taken in the same room, these two images, together, define a large segment of the Pakistani populace like no blog post can. Cheers.
View ArticleAbbottabad Cantt After Protests
It has been a while since I have posted here – but only because the dozen post drafts lying on my desktop have been fighting for attention at the same time – and have created a deadlock. A lot needs to...
View ArticleBlock Breaker
Most of us Pakistani IT professionals spend our lives shielded from the ‘system’. Yes, we sometimes come out of our shells and protest against whatever we believe we have to demonstrate against – and...
View ArticleThe old lady and the child
Of the dozens of stories that I have heard from the neighbors of the compound that was attacked in Abbottabad, this is the one that keeps resurfacing in my mind. The old lady’s family moved to Bilal...
View ArticleJust out of curiosity…
The answer choices have been compiled from the various ways that I saw fellow Pakistanis around me celebrating the independence day today – both online and offline. Please spend a few seconds of your...
View ArticleThe Cost of a National Holiday
Nusrat Bhutto, the wife/mother/mother-in-law/grandmother of our past/present/future rulers passed away in Dubai yesterday, and an unexpected national day of mourning with a national holiday was...
View ArticleJournalistic Methods in Pakistan
One of the problems with news reports, whether in print or on a screen, is that most of us care enough to consume them but not enough to verify whether they are completely true, partially true or a...
View ArticleStaying in Pakistan
I have been asked countless times why I am wasting my life Pakistan and why haven’t I applied for immigration yet. This post has been lying in my blog drafts for many months – today seems to be an...
View ArticleThe Cab Driver from Waziristan
In Abbottabad, a Suzuki Bolan is the what you get when you need a taxi – probably because of its turning radius and the ability to squeeze into the narrow lanes of the old Abbottabad. The lanes were...
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