Dhaaga Bill
My Sass has forever been very clear in her speech. We didn’t have much to have fun with. No twisted words. No falaafa instead of lifafa. We would just get…
Hoarder Extraordinaire
I’m a hoarder.One like you’ve never seen in your life.I give good boxes, empty packaging to people to throw them when I’m not looking because I can’t. I have train…
Qivaami Sivayein
This emergency middle of the night plan to “let’s have Eid tomorrow” wrecked quite a few plans. Amongst many that included some bangles, a certain much revered sticky fingers Yakhni…
Ammi ki Eed
This morning, one with less food and more hussle, as I rushed to closed the gate behind our car whizzing out the driveway, I saw the Motia bush in full…
Findings of a granddaughter
I found him. From his brief time at Sihala where he was filling in for someone. I found him. Without a name or a reference.
What makes your soul happy?
There’s something so satisfying about frying onions. The just perfectly caramelising onions, each strand separating from a perfectly fan-like slice and slightly twisting, glistening with the oil around it gives…
2020 Lemonade
I don't think I've ever made a better batch of lemonade in my LIFE than what I've done with 2020. Lockdown has been my dream world. I have been known…
Muharram, A Sunni’s Reminiscence
As far back as memory allows me, I remember Ashura to be a somber, low key phase in the house. My Nani was a Sunni Syed with her surname beginning…
Alvidaa’a
I started writing this the day School of Education Staff said farewell to Tahir and Shaila on a Zoom call but couldn't finish it in farté jazbaat (emotional overwhelm) It…
Food from the life past
My nannhiaal is from Jaunpur in UP (Uttar Pradesh) in India where my mother was born. When they came to Pakistan in the late 1950s, most of the family decided…