She gets out of the car, adjusting her shalwar The legs one mustn’t behold, out of their fabric strongholdsThe ankles though, for a moment showTheir shameful curvature.It can’t be helped you see, we are bipedal beingsBut we can’t see the nuances of practical biologyWhen blinded by the nobility of our formidable patriarchy,And cloaked in outContinue reading “VERSE | THE QUINTESSENTIAL SINNER”
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VERSE | ANOTHER TIK IN THE WALL – Part Two
A tribute to all the young women who are constantly attempting to be bigger than the patriarchal shadows cast upon them. (This is in specific response to the most recent mauling by hundreds of men, of a girl who was making a video on Independence Day at Minar-e-Pakistan – a monument ironically, symbolising freedom andContinue reading “VERSE | ANOTHER TIK IN THE WALL – Part Two”
FEATURE|LETTER FROM AN AFGHAN GIRL TO HER TALIBAN CAPTORS
This is a tribute to all the women in fact who are oppressed, reduced and shamed in the name of religion, and who still find the strength and dignity to go on another day. O Talib*, O ye self-professed Learned One,I have something to say to you. You can whip up monsters from the airContinue reading “FEATURE|LETTER FROM AN AFGHAN GIRL TO HER TALIBAN CAPTORS”
VERSE| WE, THE WOMEN OF PAKISTAN – Part Two
This is a tribute of determination, hope and new beginnings not only for the Pakistani women, but for all the heroic women around the world who are speaking out and standing up for themselves against all manner of cruel and brutal patriarchy. It is also a testimonial and a resounding voice of support for thoseContinue reading “VERSE| WE, THE WOMEN OF PAKISTAN – Part Two”
OPINION| OUR BLOOD-LETTING BLASPHEMY LAWS
We are such a plagued nation, full of dichotomies and hypocrisies. We are like the disillusioned but swaggeringly confident local thug who goes around, bellowing and thundering. His sole purpose being to threaten and intimidate his neighbourhood so that he can get some semblance of attention. Respectability, patience and civility have forsaken our national psycheContinue reading “OPINION| OUR BLOOD-LETTING BLASPHEMY LAWS”
OPINION | We, the Women of Pakistan
And so it was on another quite uneventful day that the PM of our besieged nation finally put in his two bits to exacerbate our social dilemma just a little more. The tenuous progress that we had made, all things considered (the “Aurat” [Women’s] March, the now audible Moderate social segment lobbying for change, theContinue reading “OPINION | We, the Women of Pakistan”
VERSE| HARRY HARRY, QUITE CONTRARY
This is well meaning satire. (Clarifying for the benefit of those readers who are still in awe of the Royals and may feel quite contrary about such outrageous literary endeavors 🤓)Read to the lilt of “Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary, How does your garden grow?” Harry Harry! You’re so contrary How does this scandal go?With MeghanContinue reading “VERSE| HARRY HARRY, QUITE CONTRARY”
OPINION|CHILDREN OF MEN*
Our Earth, now home to almost 8 billion humans. Also home to 153 million orphan children. Also the nursery to 140 million new births every year. Empirical population statistics when you look at each one individually. But when you connect them via the human equation, one can see the bizarre manifestation of our humanity goneContinue reading “OPINION|CHILDREN OF MEN*”
OPINION|MY 72 HURS* AND I
I probably would not have been able to write this piece as intrepidly as I am doing now had I been in the motherland. And therein lies the basis of the conundrum that is our religion: an ideology that is deeply, consumingly rooted in loathsome patriarchy with a formidable intolerance for debate and discussion. 1400Continue reading “OPINION|MY 72 HURS* AND I”
POLITICAL FARCE|AN ODE TO @therealdonaldtrump
**There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hallAnd the bells in the steeple too.And up in the nursery an absurd little birdIs popping out to say cuckoo cuckoo, cuckoo…Regretfully they tell usBut firmly they compel us To say goodbye…To YOU! And so my dear Mr. PresidentI wrote this ode for you,Continue reading “POLITICAL FARCE|AN ODE TO @therealdonaldtrump”
OPINION| A GRACIOUS FAREWELL
I’ve been meaning to put this hitherto confusing, emotionally wounding mass of thoughts to paper/ tablet for a while now. So far, through all the varied attempts over the last 8 years, I’ve always choked on the words in my mind; cocooned in a kind of benumbing Writer’s Block if you will. So here iContinue reading “OPINION| A GRACIOUS FAREWELL”
VERSE|MARDANGI – My Patriarchal Burden
This is A sequel to my earlier verse “Ravaged”.This piece looks at the complicated nuances of nurture and upbringing, as opposed to the static all-out denunciation of the individual perpetrating familial rape. This piece of writing attempts to highlight the grotesque patriarachy which we have allowed to perpetuate and which has damaged generations of both,Continue reading “VERSE|MARDANGI – My Patriarchal Burden”
The Roaming Desi 