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Changing ‘history’DSC_0065 copy
At every turn, there is a new building being built. Skyscrapers and flyovers begin to pop out of nowhere. It seems like every road is being broken down to build a new one. A common theme around Lahore...
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Fat shamingMoodstreet
Earlier this week, ‘Humans of New York’ featured a man talking about his struggle with weight and the adverse role it had played in his life. The comments underneath were largely empathetic and...
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I’m not a bad tipper but…Moodstreet
Recently, my friends and I decided to have iftaar at one of the best reputed restaurants of Lahore. We chose it from a multitude of options because it seemed to offer good food at a reasonable price....
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What the henMoodstreet
In the world we live in now, the worst possible thing to be is a hen. A hen, you see, never feels a sense of safety. It is not safe as an egg; an unborn child because we, wonderful humans need our...
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Those forlorn children in our livesPAKA2008-1519
How many of us know parents who would wish for their young ones to be uprooted from their family to be permanently shifted off to a new life — with the purpose of serving people to earn a living?...
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Democracy, not divinitymood
Gesticulating, shouting and armed with a set of unoriginal rebuttals force-fed by the parties they slavishly represent; that is the modern-day Pakistani politician on your average news channel. No...
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On modestymood street
I remember the first time my mother asked me to start covering myself with a dupatta when leaving the house and while around men who weren’t from my immediate family. I was thirteen. I remember feeling...
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Fragments of a broken pastastroTEX_0009
There seems to be this natural human tendency to keep alive the happiest memories from our pasts, burying the melancholic ones away — afraid that our mind or soul won’t be able to handle them. For some...
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A scooter and a helmet and that’s it!moodstreet
The other day I saw a young man standing alongside a small scooter close to where I live. It looked like the much-talked about battery-run scooter being sold in a mega super store, except that this one...
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Adieu Miss Saira Malik!Saira Malik
By the end of March, the grand revelation to embrace life in its most crude form came upon me over tea with my teacher. Sitting on one of the sofas at Gymkhana with her gigantic oxygen tank, she asked...
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They weren’t soldiers on the front linePAKISTAN-UNREST-SCHOOL
We call them our ‘sacrifices.’ We call them our martyrs. We call them our little heroes. We use them as our battle cry against the Taliban, or the extremists, or the people of Waziristan, or really...
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A new beginningMoodstreet
As the clock struck 12 on December 31, 2014, New Year celebrations all over the globe got underway. New Zealand, being the first major country to celebrate, witnessed magnificent pyrotechnics embracing...
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Our Lahori-ness
Once the seat of the Mughal Empire and now called the ‘Heart of Punjab’, Lahore is a city about which it is said that those who haven’t seen it, haven’t lived. We, who belong here, are known as “Zinda...
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Too stupid for Cupid…Moodstreet copy copy
It is just a matter of the clock ticking 12. In no time, love gurus will sprout out of nowhere on TV and radio channels (while some sane individuals would simply don on the façade of love guru!)....
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Proud at birth105665,xcitefun-happy-pakistan-day6 copy
Whenever I read a post or a comment in the social media where someone is feeling proud to be a Pakistani or a Muslim or a Punjabi or a Lahori, I wish the elated person knew what proud — defined in...
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We aren’t for your entertainment. PeriodMoodstreet
In the light of the recent BBC documentary, India’s Daughter, on the 2012 gang rape case in Delhi, and International Women’s Day last weekend, all of us women seem to be contemplating the kind of life...
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The empty skiesDSC_6444
Imagine my surprise when scrolling down my Facebook timeline recently I came across a picture which portrayed basant in full swing — the sky filled with colourful kites. I assumed this was an old...
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Lahore has just the right amount of trash!Moodstreet
As spring sets in and the warm rays of sun beam through the random clouds, Lahore remains the same – never changing, just as the people who call it home. We continue to build more bridges, underpasses...
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Healthcare and homeopathyMoodstreet
Then we fall ill, most of us rush to the doctor in our area who mostly gives a day’s medicine. People are handed over a small polythene sachet with four different medicines, two small plastic bottles...
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Backstage is where the ‘illusion’ breaks
When I was in my early teens, studying in a boarding school, every day I would grab copies of the entertainment pages of the newspapers we got our hands on, and read them over and over, especially the...
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