“No Woman No Cry”, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, when we are celebrating womanhood in all its forms, why this allusion to Bob Marley’s very popular chartbuster ? Well, he obviously meant it ….if there were no women, there would be no tears! Most married men recall their bachelor days with that nostalgic […]
Indians and Pakistanis are normally on friendly terms when they are not in their respective countries. After all they have shared a common heritage, although our neighbours have been living in denial since independence. The relationship is not easy though, we speak the same language which does help forge a bond. While in the UN
Hijab is the latest storm in the tea cup, a couple of years earlier most of us would have concluded it to be a typo with “K” being omitted, i.e. mistaking it with “khijab“. Khijab in Urdu, the language of love and poetry as they say, means hair colour or Hair Dye as it was
Mention of the word ‘Reservation’, is akin to showing a red flag to a bull, before you can complete your sentence that it was train reservation that you were referring to and not reservations for the supposedly downtrodden and oppressed, the youngsters will be up in arms. We have reservations about the concept of reservation
“Toxicity” was a 2001 chartbuster from the band “System of a Down”, while it is supposed to have focused on the other forms of toxicity prevalent in the society then, drugs, religion, corruption and so on. Today the additional form of toxicity which is way more pernicious and has effected all and sundry is the
When winter comes can chapped dry and flakey skins be far behind? The red chubby cheeks would turn dry and rough, anathema for most caring mothers. Most kids dreaded the evening bed time ritual when mothers would tiptoe quietly and apply glycerine on their faces. Glycerine made our faces sticky and this evening Holi ritual
It is well past midnight, after a session of Netflix, satellite TV programmes are passé, when one is just about falling asleep, from somewhere in the dark hidden spaces emerges a mosquito with just a single point agenda of not letting you sleep peacefully. It was a long day at work and a good night’s siesta
How I wish I was ambidextrous, being able to use both my hands equally efficiently. Most of us use our right hands for all our routine tasks, some with a creative bent of mind, use their left hand. Why this sudden urge, well actually since it is the right hand which wields the razor for
So we are at it again, if it was not for the Virs and Kanganas life would be so dull. We must actually be grateful to them rather than pouring scorn. The electronic media will then have to do some real reporting and research, which is oh so boring! After all, there are more such
‘Jashn-e-riwaz’ was recently in the news for all the wrong reasons, a Happy occasion such as Diwali was marred by a silly controversy. I wonder whether a Diwali Mubarak would cease to be “shubh” or happy, or for that matter, a ‘Shubh Eid‘ be unpalatable to the Ummah for having adulterated the puritanical Eid Mubarak“! Imagine
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