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WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN?

Your neighbors insist on blaring nasty out of tune Bollywood numbers at horrendous nerve-racking decibels at 4 in the morning because someone in their family is unfortunate enough to be getting married. And, then again you have to be…

And GOD forbid…

If you want to pursue an education after the traditional/formal years of one's lives dedicated to that pursuit have long gone! I, like the fool that I am, applied for a Master's degree at the University of Karachi, Women's Studies…

The Bakra syndrome!

UFFFFF! There is, at least, one person I know for a fact who suffers from this, and does so without fail, every year around this time of the Muslim calendar. It is for sure, non other than my 12 year old son Mustafa, who contracts the…

Khuda ke wastay!

WHY? Why do we always invoke GOD? On every little occasion and every thing? why do we call GOD and ask people to do this and that all because GOD will get happy with them. The beggars on the street got me thinking on this, for while I…

What I fear the most….

After colossal losses in life what is it that would scare a person the most? I feel scared all the time, fear is a part of my reality and it is become a constant scene that dances in my eyes, no matter where I am and what I am doing, a…