Posted in DAWN, The Magazine on October 13, 2007 | No Comments »
On Chand Raat, women are out to spend, and spend they will at any cost.
Through Ramazan, I struggle with attempts to fulfill my religious duties and obligations along with unbelievably short banking hours, people with a holier-than-thou attitude, short tempers and a tendency to consider it their birthright to interfere and comment on your beliefs; [...]
Posted in DAWN, The Magazine on September 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Think of a café today and immediately a picture of comfortable couches and chairs in a softly-lit ambience against shades of either cream, brown, maroon (or in some cases, black) comes to mind. You know it’s not a place where you’re going to stuff yourself with food and leave content with a full stomach and [...]
Posted in DAWN, The Magazine on July 29, 2007 | No Comments »
There have always been certain individuals who have defined a ‘generation’. The ‘90s were marked by the arrival of the Spice Girls, other boy bands and, outside the pop industry, by Monica Lewinsky. In Pakistan, perhaps, we had the Vital Signs, Junoon and Hadiqa Kiani but virtually no one outside the entertainment sector. That period [...]
Posted in DAWN, Images, The Magazine on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
There are hardly any ticketed concerts taking place in the metropolitan to begin with and experience has taught that these things never start on time. Keeping that in mind, I arrived at the venue an hour late and was somewhat disappointed to find out that despite the measure taken, the event was far from starting. [...]
Posted in DAWN, The Magazine on January 9, 2005 | No Comments »
I often read of a mother’s point of view or the feelings she experiences when her daughter is getting married and/or about to start her new life with her in-laws.
Marriages are generally considered to be festive events: they mark the beginning of a couple’s new life: another stage in the circle of life. However, the [...]
