Baat Bun Jaay! 13 Aug 2013 | 02:22 pm

On August 13, in the year 2000, the fans of Pakistan’s first pop star brother-sister duo faced a major shock! The gorgeous singing sensation Nazia Hassan passed away – she was only 35. For those of u...

When the heat of the rolling world can be turned away… 6 Jul 2013 | 01:06 am

and so it began – the calm surrender, dear diary… 21 Jun 2013 | 08:02 pm

Keep a diary – and someday, it will keep you…

Taipei 11June2013 12 Jun 2013 | 01:38 am

Starting a new category in my blog, from today.  As cliched as it may sound, its titled ‘Dear Diary’ This should take care of my day-end notes – that hover in my mind all day and sometimes I even writ...

And think not you can direct the course of love…. 6 Jun 2013 | 03:44 pm

Today as I came back home to an 11-year old, who also returned from last day of the grade – I was met with a long face and distraught emotions scattered all across his face.  Okay I have been strictly...

The Other Side of Thirties…. 22 Apr 2013 | 06:21 am

There was a time when I thought entering thirties was a sobering experience – but wait till you get to the ‘other side’…the truth is out here! Today, as I turn 36… oh wow, wait! …as I turn an awe-insp...

Amma 1 Mar 2013 | 12:40 pm

Today it has been exactly one year that my Daddi, my lovely Amma, passed away. I owe her a lot in my life – one of the most important lesson she taught us siblings was that of Namaz. A skill which you...

If 18 Feb 2013 | 05:03 pm

Somewhere between doing Kumon homework with my boys and a recently acquired treadmill routine, I started recalling my favorite Rudyard Kipling poem. I could have googled it but recalling also meant re...

Of Valentines, Mermen and Flying Horses! 12 Feb 2013 | 11:00 pm

Come February the 14th and all the media – social and electronic – starts a buzz with the nauseating hearts and declaration of love. A lot of Rumi quotations fly in the air, flower prices go sky rocke...

Yesterday is today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream… 28 Jan 2013 | 03:30 pm

Khalil Jibran – on time And is not time even as love is, undivided and spaceless? But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let tod...