Saira Agha

Tell us about your foray into music and opera singing. How did it all begin for you? I set out to be a scientist. I completed my MSc in Physical Chemistry and was poised to start a PhD in Australia. But while still a student in 2006, I recorded an album of Amir Khusrau’s Sufi […]

Tell us about your foray into the field of music. How did it all begin for you? My mother noticed that I was musical very early on, I am told. When I was about six, I got super fascinated with songs I would hear coming out of the television. Then, when I was sent to […]

You are an actor, director, producer as well as a screenwriter. Tell us about your foray into this field. How did it all begin for you? It is almost like a recap of the last 21 years. I was still in my college doing Masters in Psychology at that time. A couple of years before […]

Tell us about your foray into politics. How did it all begin for you? I left for the United Kingdom in 1976 and I started working in a corner shop. My brother at that time had a shop in partnership with another person. So I began working there. But that wasn’t very successful as work […]

Please tell us about your foray into the field of corporate affairs and business. How did it all begin for you? I was in the army at first. When I got out, I ventured into flying. I had 2,000 hours of flying to my credit. I started working towards acquiring a commercial pilot license. Later, […]

Tell us about your foray into the field of medicine and anesthesiology. How did it all begin for you? I became a doctor to fulfill the dream of my parents. Being the only child, it was so much engraved in my mind since my childhood days that I couldn’t think of any other profession. This […]

Tell us about your foray into the field of VJ-ing, hosting and then acting. How did it all begin for you? I was doing my A Levels and I used to have a lot of time on my hands. I wanted to join television because I wanted to take up journalism later on. So I […]

Tell us about your foray into the field of culinary arts and baking. How did it all begin for you? My first memory in the kitchen is of my dad lifting me up so he could help me stir the spoon in whatever he was cooking (he’s an excellent cook). I do not remember a […]

Tell us about your foray into the field of sport and cycling. How did it all begin for you? Sports was always a fantasy world to me in which a person like me could never enter, as there’s no one in my family doing sports. Also the environment and social norms were not favorable for […]