Another translation ..

The gifts of Globalization are many, so are its curses like colonization, wars and monopolies but since I’m sick of the wars and violence around, I deemed it appropriate to resort to poetry. Incidentally, the name of the below translated poem is also ‘Globalization’ which thankfully is having a different context.
In this modern age of [...]

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Cheeni kum ..

‘Cheeni kum’ a stirring Bollywood flick released a couple of years back was quite an aberration with its unique story line where the 64 yeas old Buddha Dev Gupta (played by Amitabh Bachan) falls in love with a girl 30 years younger his age, Nina Verma (played by Tabbu).
Unlike the headlines of the scarcity [...]

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Breaking the ice ..

I was wondering how to break the ice of silence on my blog when BMK suggested these questions to try and answer. Its fun to go about. Hope it will initiate a series of posts to come.
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what [...]

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Come, Relieve me!

So we are over the profusely humid pashakal, sawan, barsat or monsoon of the current season. I cannot recall the mid of an Islamabad summer to be as hot and humid as this one proved to be. I lost a few kilos in sweat, the hard gathered weight that I’ve been trying to accumulate through [...]

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Amjad Islam Amjad said ..

وہ ہی نہیں تو ورق کس لئے سیاہ کریں
سخن تو عرض تمنا کا اک بہانہ تھا
Nope thats not the reason of my not updating this blog frequently; its the eternal writers block

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Slow And Steady Doesn’t Win The Race

This poem called Marriage A’la Mode by Sajjad Shaikh taken from the anthology ‘Pakistani Literature’ proves the notion of ’slow and steady …’ wrong. I like this stark, sarcastic and somehow melancholic poem. Hope you too will like it.
“Did you meet Sulemanji?
Tha man in the double breast-nay-blue suit?
Yes, the only one who gave me a [...]

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Zama Jwand ..

Don’t ask me the meaning, my life’s devoid of it ..

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FAQ’s about me ..

Ayesha broke her boredom with writing some FAQ’s about her. She handed us the questions to be a part of the game as well. I thought it to be fun so I came up with my answers. Here they are;
1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you [...]

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Pakistan’s Campaign In World T20

They were beaten badly by the South Africans in their first warm up game of the tournament but worst was to come later when they were trounced by the Indians in front of a packed Lords stadium, a match that was more than a warm up, a precursor to their further troubles against a desperate [...]

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The Blank Diary

To similize the protagonist’s life to that of an un-attended diary might not be an apt analogy, but the thought came when I looked at the blank pages of the diary I keep rather unwritten. I’ve been treating my diary badly for not sharing with it things that it deserves but the blame should go [...]

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