2019-11-21 08:00
Life’s happened. I have left Lahore. Not officially. Well technically, officially. For the next three months, I will be living in Islamabad during the week and being in and out of Laho… Read More
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2018-10-28 07:49
The blue couch in my living room holds testament to all the major events of my life in the past few years. When I first bought it, I was conned into wiring 7K to a prank caller who I assumed… Read More
2018-09-06 13:59
K might kill me for this sudden bout of honesty but we shall risk it, shall we? The thing is we both like cheap thrills! Just like the song. No, I lie. He won’t kill me, he’ll ju… Read More
2018-05-26 07:57
You! Yes, you! You ought to be on a date with yourself right now.
Think back…
How many times have you treated yourself and only you alone to a nice meal at a good eatery, devoured eve… Read More
2018-02-27 08:11
I was a tourist in his city and he was my guide. We sat across each other, me with my soup and bread and him with his pack of Benson OO and Nutella crepe. In that moment, I judged his food o… Read More
2017-12-02 19:13
The first time we locked hearts was over China Town’s Beef Chilli Dry and Delicatessen’s Nutella Crepe. We had stared at food in unison with googly eyes and subsequently stumbled… Read More
2017-11-15 10:33
Call me frugul but I window shop at Habitt and do the actual shopping at a landa. Don’t get me wrong, Habitt is all dreamy and glitzy but I’d rather shell that money out on food… Read More
2017-10-19 07:35
Gourmet Bakery maybe all glory but trust me! I’ve had enough of it. When I first landed in Lahore to live by myself, it was during Ramadan. A mutual friend, K and I would scour the cit… Read More
2017-10-18 13:35
I scare me at times. I had taken Woolf too literally when she had said that a woman must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction. I threw three cats and no fictio… Read More
2017-07-03 22:35
If I look back, it is obvious that I had my head in the clouds when I rolled my bags across the Pearson International Airport. It was a crisp summer morning in Toronto and yet the universe g… Read More
2017-07-03 07:46
It had been months! The man in shinning Ray-Ban wasn’t budging. I needed to dress up, look sharp and be swept off to a nice dinner but his definition of a dinner date has been changed… Read More
2017-06-20 06:56
Note: I wrote this piece a while back for ‘The Lookout Journal’. Etching just a snippet of it piece on the blog today. You can read the full piece here.
“There is a moment… Read More
2017-05-15 08:50
You know the feeling that someone is hammering you down there, under? The feeling that you and I try to cloak with painkillers and the shopkeeper with brown paper bags? Well our friends over… Read More
2017-05-03 05:47
Usually when I look at a blank space, I chatter. I fill it with words and stories that I house in my heart. I give it some inhabitants, I make it a home and then I visit it often. These days… Read More
2017-01-24 09:04
My thoughts like amoeba under a microscope, dance, take no form. Runny egg yolks that the albumen struggles to contain. Scattered and grey only in definition. Divided between pros and cons… Read More
2017-01-06 10:06
The only words that filled my childhood were silent, etched on paper in black. I would devour book after book, huddled in one corner of the room I shared with my brother. I would read… Read More
2017-01-02 08:39
Conventionality skipped my household. It hopped over the multiple houses we changed, not even stopping to squat for a while. If I was breaking a fast (a rare event for the family members, sa… Read More
2016-12-30 09:29
Fauzia, the girl behind ‘Rants of a Desi Bride’Why is the last button on a button down shirt always oriented horizontally unlike the rest of the buttons? What is the purpose of t… Read More
2016-12-29 08:06
And you thought white Christmas was romantic. Snow falling outside your window, soft like a lover’s caress. You didn’t know about fog back then, did you? The enigma that wraps it… Read More
2016-12-27 09:42
Illustrated by my favorite Pakistani designer, Shehzil Malik. Show some love, hop here.Disagree with me all you want but darling, you know it as well as I do that all these men staring… Read More
2016-11-19 07:32
Judge me all you want but I rickshaw-ed all the way to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital rather than Uber-ing to a hotshot doctor’s private clinic to get a contagious skin wart removed from  &hell…Read More
2016-10-20 07:24
Her blood red saree playing peekaboo with her henna dyed feet, her feet in motion. Your eyes in a trance. She keeps moving, her naked torso emerging like a cone tree out of the hil… Read More
2016-10-13 05:00
Once upon a time not long ago, I ordered the perfumer a candle from the Karachi Candle Company and then fell into a beautiful conversation on Instagram with the lady who had hand poured the… Read More
2016-10-09 18:35
Kicking off this section with a heart-to-heart with Tülin Khalid-Azim. If you don’t know her already, she is a freelance theatre director who dabbles in modern ca… Read More
2016-09-29 11:12
I collected pins on Pinterest, pinned them onto boards, took screenshots, followed blogs, made lists. I chose a color for my next bedroom, settled on a couch style. I even picked a theme for… Read More
2016-09-22 00:00
My definition of romance is absent minded intimacy and his is the lack of it. I have borrowed a page from Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography, he has stolen a leaf from society’s… Read More
2016-09-10 01:36
Note: This series is an attempt at promoting everything local. Like all posts, this one is strung with love too. No paid endorsements on the blog. However, if you feel there is something tha… Read More
2016-07-28 12:24
The first time I went to the Hotspot in Gulberg was with this equally twisted friend and E. Hey! I’m not saying E isn’t twisted. He is twisted in his own way – the untwist… Read More
2016-07-12 10:39
Is that even a thing? Feeling a little minimal.
Its that time of the year again. Moles on soles itch. Roller blades grow out of heels. And that fight with the landlord ensues. Inevitab… Read More
2016-04-29 10:35
I believe the ladies on the internet. Yes, these are women I’ve never met. I read about their experiences and let myself be inspired. Its a sisterhood of the holistic women up here on… Read More
2016-04-16 05:43
I’m slow. It is only after I have analyzed a dialogue in my head a few hours later do I realize that I received a compliment. That is saying a lot for someone who sells their communica… Read More
2016-04-06 08:22
Our first interaction…
She knocked on my door one monsoon morning asking for Lipton. I handed her my jar of loose tea and she raised her eyebrows. I felt sorry for her instantly. Afte… Read More
2016-02-04 18:04
They have it easy, the ones who can mourn the dead
– Kamila Shamsie
I wonder sometimes, where would I be now, had I seen his body coughing up his soul free. They tell their versi… Read More
2016-01-31 07:27
For K, if he ever decides to cook by himself
Plop those eggplants on the stove. Good ole desi gas stove. No! You don’t need to take out a wok. Just plop ’em on the stove and let… Read More
2016-01-31 05:58
(Non-vegan friendly incase mom decides to visit blog)
I pick out a piece of gravy covered fish and start feeling it for snarky little bones. Mani has changed the channel to one playing old B… Read More
2016-01-31 05:58
(Non-vegan friendly incase mom decides to visit blog)
I pick out a piece of gravy covered fish and start feeling it for snarky little bones. Mani has changed the channel to one playing old B… Read More
2016-01-26 07:49
What’ll you do when you get lonely
And nobody’s waiting by your side?
You’ve been running and hiding much too long.
You know it’s just your foolish pride.
Layla, you… Read More
2015-12-03 13:18
As a teenager, the only two times I read Lahore’s name in TIME magazine was in the same edition of “Best Places in Asia”. Heera Mandi and Wazzir Khan had both made it to th… Read More
2015-11-17 21:01
This is a personal post.
I have strung each post in this blog with personal experiences, snippets of what goes on in my life and yet I’ve never used it as a medium to voice out what he… Read More
2015-11-09 07:31
When I asked the folks at Anees Book Corner if they carried chalkboard paint, they simply stared back. Blank face. No expression.
K grinned.
O! He grinned his evil grin. Have I mention… Read More
2015-09-11 09:30
Watch out, vegan mommy! It ain’t a vegan-friendly post!
While visiting me in NY one winter, E asked me if I could make french toast for breakfast. Sure. No rocket science there… Read More
2015-06-25 05:06
One fine day while K waited for me to finish meditating so I could finally go unlock the door for him, my landlord approached him. Now the thing with K is that he is the nice guy, the guy wh… Read More
2015-06-14 17:34
If I could, I would have inspected this city with a magnifying glass from up above the clouds and landed on the flea markets before bumping my head and wallet in a million other places! Why… Read More
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