Pangs of an Indian Pakistani

On departure at Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi her father, a man with steel nerves, exclaimed with a mask face, in a matter of fact manner, “Now that you are going across, own the place, own the people, and own the problems the way you have owned the man from there.” Without a trace of [...]

Osteoporosis ~ a silent thief

Before reading the information on Osteoporosis below, please take this Pre-Test : http://thinkloud65.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/osteoporosis-the-silent-thief-pre-test/ Osteoporosis literally means porous bones, or thinning of bones. Calcium is laid down in the bones for strength. However, for various reasons, calcium deposition may becomes less, leading to thinning of bones. Why a silent theif? Bones are weight bearing organs. The thinning [...]

Please pray for us too, Mr President !

Just a few weeks ago I was moved to hear an ex Indian Chief Election Commissioner say to Najam Sethi: “Hamara Makkah Medina to aap ke paas hai.” (Our Mecca and Madina are with you). After retirement he had come to visit the holy places of Sikh in Pakistan, the Nankana Sahib and other holy [...]

The story of Siachen

With the tragic news of 150 Pakistani soldiers  buried alive in an avalanche in the Pakistan base camp at Siachen, it brings back to  memory the bitter truths about this conflict. The glacier: Siachen means ‘the place of wild roses’. Siachen glacier is the great Himalayan watershed that demarcates central Asia from the Indian sub-continent, [...]

It’s just a Menopause !

Menopause simply means: *A woman will not be having periods anymore. Hence she will not be able to get pregnant. It certainly does not mean that she has lost her womanhood or feminity. Menopause is that point in time when periods stop forever. You can know that you had a menopause, only after a year has [...]

O’ the wandering mind ~Kabir

Kabir has hardly spared any animate and inanimate examples to ridicule the bigots who have great illusions about their self image and through their beliefs repeatedly,  make a fool of themselves. In the same spirit, I came across yet another simple yet interest verses. Poem 1:  Apanpo aap hi bisaro. Says Kabir, they  fall prey [...]

Lawn ki kahani, meri zubani ( The story of Lawn in my words)

Published in TheNews Blog : http://blogs.thenews.com.pk/blogs/2012/03/21/story-of-a-lawn-hater/ Designer lawn, designer lawn, designer lawn! Every Sana, Nida and Hina is coming out with designer lawns. Thankfully never a fan of lawn as a material, it does not awaken the woman in me. However I remember my mother, who lives in Delhi, where summers are really biting, once came [...]

Abida Parveen, the therapeutic

If music is a mountain range, its Mt Everest is Abida Parveen. A summit of Sufi music, which no soul can surmount. The Queen not only drowns herself in the music she sings, but she sweeps along her listeners too, in the tides of the overpowering words that flow out her throat. After the plunge, [...]

FAREWELL TO HUMSAFAR with style.

Published in TheNewsBlog >> http://blogs.thenews.com.pk/blogs/2012/03/06/farewell-humsafar-with-a-style/ It was destined that I had to watch it. Yes nothing but destiny could do that, knowing how averse to dramas I am. Overwhelmed with the real life political and social dramas that go around us, fiction has never touched my heart. However, the imaginative FAREWELL TO HUMSAFAR potluck party called [...]

Sights and Sounds May Disappear, but Smell Shall Linger.

Published in TheNewsBlog February 7, 2012. http://blogs.thenews.com.pk/blogs/2012/02/07/sights-and-sounds-may-disappear-but-smell-shall-linger/ “When I miss her, I go to her closet to sense my daughter’s fragrance.” Arfa Karim‘s Mom said on her 17th birthday. The words from the teary eyed mother gave me goose bumps. She was certainly not talking about the perfumes that Arfa adorned, but the odour that she [...]