Pakistan and India are the two neighboursof South Asia with remarkable things in common — language, festivals, music, culture, food, architecture, fashion, rituals, and superstitions. No such similarities are found in the Arab countries, but the Mullah would tell us in every Friday sermon that the Saudis are our brothers. But we would always feel […]
Pakistanisation of India
It seems there is nothing like ‘merit’ in any part of the world, not even in India that we naïve Pakistanis revere as the ‘god’ in music. Ustad Imrat Khan, a legend in surbahar and sitar (like his brother UstadVilayat Khan) was awarded the lowest ranked civilian award Padma Shree this year at the age […]
Keep killing cockroaches!
My kitchen and bathrooms were infested with cockroaches — not due to lack of cleanliness. These places would be sprayed every day and great results would be achieved. I would issue a press release that in a pre-dawn ‘operation’, I consigned 50 cockroaches to hell. The rating hungry TV channels would run it as ‘breaking […]