Mr. President; You Are Among Our Nation’s First! on June 9, 2020A decade ago (2009-2017), the people of the United States elected a person of color to lead this country onto the tumultuous world stage and its stormy affairs. This shift of ideologies was as inconceivable as the mere presence of an African American family presiding in the highest Office of the country. Barack Obama became […]
The Growth Curve on April 14, 2020To say that age is a number is plausible. However, as you go high in count so must you come down in strength.’ Tween and twenties garner a healthy supple skin with stamina to match. Fast forward ten years and you come to accept what is and are usually resigned to your fate except a […]
Musings of an alarmed woman on June 19, 2019A woman is one of the most ingeniously aggressive creations of God. We are mothers, daughters, sisters-found in almost all capacities and we are the horse you should always bet on. Women are hard working. Period. Regardless of our colour shape or curves; we strive to outdo men and 0.000005 percent actually succeed in the […]
The #MeToo movement and Pakistan on May 30, 2018History is defined by movements – a mobilisation of an ideal that when pursued religiously can be a force to reckon with. It is the very commotion which is stirred at the heart by concerns so great that may weaken the core of an established society which has learned the art of cover-ups so well. […]
The #MeToo and Pakistan on May 28, 2018History is defined by movements – a mobilisation of an ideal that when pursued religiously can be a force to reckon with. It is the very commotion which is stirred at the heart by concerns so great that may weaken the core of an established society which has learned the art of cover-ups so well. […]
The Muslim dilemma on October 26, 2016Born and raised in the ethnic background of historic Lahore world seemed a happy place with news of occasional skirmishes that weren’t too powerful to squish my happy bubble of existence. It was the head-on collision with practical life that washed away all notions of a perfect world. A front row seat showed bigotry, racism, […]
When we become they on July 2, 2016A white woman walks up to a hijab-clad one, standing at the gate of an Islamic school in New Jersey and asks her, “Where do you have the bomb-making class? In which grade do you start to teach them to be a jihadi?” This is not a hyperbole or an amplification of a speculative mind. […]
Beat me into submission on June 6, 2016“When all else fails, hit her with light things like handkerchief, a hat or a turban but do not hit her on the face or private parts.” If this had been a line from some marginal comedy, it would have gotten a few moderate laughs. As it turns out it is not so; these are […]
A nation Trump-ed on May 13, 2016In a world propelled by fear and movements borne out of hatred and bigotry I find the notion of equality a distant and unapproachable thought. The semantics of religion does not connote segregation on the basis of colour or social standing, but man, flawed as he is, has his own inner god to appease and […]
Our abysmal fall on February 4, 2016“Elephants have no feelings; they are made of rubber.” This was the quote that made my five-year-old laugh but, as in all great satires, the deep-seated message in the children’s animated movie Dumbo was not supposed to be funny. To the perceptive mind, it was a clobbering smack to the questionable patterns of human behaviour […]