Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

The old lady and the child

Of the dozens of stories that I have heard from the neighbors of the compound that was attacked in Abbottabad, this is the one that keeps resurfacing in my mind. The old lady’s family moved to Bilal Town five or six years ago. She told me that in all those years, she never encountered any […]

Block Breaker

Most of us Pakistani IT professionals spend our lives shielded from the ‘system’. Yes, we sometimes come out of our shells and protest against whatever we believe we have to demonstrate against – and yes, we do write blog posts and opine and criticize and debate, and sometimes attend the feel-good TEDx talks to ‘spread […]

Abbottabad Cantt After Protests

It has been a while since I have posted here – but only because the dozen post drafts lying on my desktop have been fighting for attention at the same time – and have created a deadlock. A lot needs to be said, but before I resume writing, here are 17000 words (in picture format) […]

Black Labels

Taken in the same room, these two images, together, define a large segment of the Pakistani populace like no blog post can. Cheers.

Lahore Metblogs Widget

Metblogs just introduced a cool widget to embed any metblog post on your own blog. Since I am a Lahore Metblogs author by virtue of writing a few posts there, so I thought I’d check the (beta) embed script out. Here goes: Hmm, it ate up my masterpiece images, and the title is missing the […]