Remember, remember the fifth of November on November 6, 2015Even the fans are off but load shedding is still here. Soon, we will have gas shedding and other forms of shedding. That is the way it is. It is also the fifth of November as I write this. I have, for as long as I can remember, remembered the opening lines of the rhyme […]
From un-silenced to re-silenced on April 10, 2015Let us again recall Faiz Ahmed Faiz and compare what we are facing today: “My salutations to thy sacred streets, O beloved nation! Where a custom ‘that none shall walk with his head held high’ has been invented. And if a devotee yearns to go on pilgrimage, then he must walk with eyes lowered and body […]