Articles with tag: marriage
Sexless and Loveless Marriages
Khalid Sohail Nov 25, 2008 interacts: 43Many people are surprised how the same routine life that provides stability and security starts to kill creativity, spontaneity and love. When monogamy turns in monotony.
Live In
Prashant Bhatt Nov 3, 2008“The world outside the campus is very cruel. There are people who pass sarcastic remarks or start giving patronizing advice regarding my job, career, potential marriage” she told as they sat together
Hitched Hikers Guide
Ibrahim M Khalil May 18, 2008 interacts: 4I never aspired for such superficial goals. Being mature beyond my age, I always dreamt of being a Groom (Dulha).
Life Long Commitment vs. Singledom
Kiran Farooque May 19, 2008 interacts: 35Marriage, I think, is highly overrated. Marriage being the perfect happily ever after and the solution to life’s problems is ‘just a myth we’ve been fed since childhood’
A Little After Three
Lajwanti Khemlani May 9, 2008 interacts: 7I lay face down, pretending to have fallen asleep. Soon I heard random words like boy, Muslim, Sindhi, dowry, next week, dinner, and blood pressure.
Still Looking!
Tahera Sajid May 3, 2008 interacts: 24“No, no, no!” I had stormed out yesterday leaving my Mum baffled and Shabbi Auntie angry, when she brought in yet another rishta-seeking brigade.
It's ME on Both Sides!
Asra Nadeem Jan 24, 2008 interacts: 51I was told that my dad had been by my mother's side when I was born but left only after he found out that his child was a girl.
Indian Supreme Court says- ‘Live in is marriage’
sharad chandra Jan 20, 2008 interacts: 19A momentous turn that will create upheavals in Indian society from bottom to top.
Clarity
Raj Mor Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 7“Arunivas! Arunivas! Make sure you get me a gold set! Last Diwali you forgot completely that I am allergic to non-gold. How can you forget such important things?”
Short
Raj Mor Nov 6, 2007 interacts: 1The day had gone well. Dow was up. NASDAQ was up. Sensex was up. But he was thinking about his Indian IT stocks
The Price of Loving Karl Marx
Khalid Sohail Nov 1, 2007 interacts: 70Spouses have to offer financial, economic and social sacrifices to maintain a marital relationship with creative personalities. Karl Marx was no exception.
Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages
Moiz Ansari Oct 14, 2007 interacts: 89He is from a “good” family or biradri! The girl might be given a chance to look at her future groom once if the parents are “Progressive”
My Life Story
fariha ansari Aug 1, 2007 interacts: 10When I close my eyes in solitude and think about the goings-on in my life during the past 17 years, I realize that a big part of my life is gone, withered away, wasted...
The Choice of Leading a Gay Life
Ali Kamran Jul 18, 2007 interacts: 31‘forcing them to marry hoping he or she will change’ – such a approach invites anger, irritation, tensions and worse absolute breakdown of relations.
Window Shopping
Maria Amir Jun 18, 2007 interacts: 3Since the female/object in question is not really required to speak or profess her opinions during the proceedings it allows her free reign to watch at will.
Worlds Apart
Tahera Sajid Jun 10, 2007 interacts: 49‘Home? Where was home, anyway? Don’t they say home is where the heart is?’
Stopping the Clock
Ibrahim M Khalil May 15, 2007 interacts: 10The young Julius Caesar talks about Alexander the Great who at his age had conquered half the world and what has he (Caesar) achieved. This made me wonder what I have to show for my thirty years of life?
Marriage in Hiding
M A Shah Oct 18, 2006 interacts: 36A muslim female cannot marry a non- muslim man and a Muslim man can marry any muslim, christian or jewish woman. Who decides who wants to marry who? The ones getting married and no one else.
Out of the Woods Yet
Rajesh Shankaran Sep 28, 2006 interacts: 13One evening, as I was packing for the day, my eyes set on an intriguing post in the electronic bulletin board, “Wet weekends at Hermann’s Palace”. The post carried the address and a map as well...
Jasmines in Colorado (final part)
Umair Raja Aug 10, 2006 interacts: 32Nothing in life had prepared me for the past four months. The highs and the lows; the excitement and the pains; and most of all, the truths and the lies. I feel like an amateur caught in a world made for professionals...
Thin as a Pin
Shujaat Wasty Jun 14, 2006 interacts: 9Most bachelors will regurgitate the socially-acceptable rhetoric of finding the “traditional good girl”. What they fail to mention is that below the tip of the iceberg lies an enormous list of demands that are to be met before these young sta
Deranged Arranged Marriages
Asad Haider Jun 3, 2006 interacts: 44I’ve got some advice for all you brown kids out there, take your chances, fall in love, get a date to prom, need an excuse? lie about sleeping over at Abdul or Sana’s house its as easy as that, chances are that the girl won’t feel like p
Hidden Desires
Ozer Khalid Apr 8, 2006 interacts: 39Oh, chaste wither away! And set her lust free--
held incarcerated, long ago a romance ceased to be
to whisper a hymn of infidelity
Laddo Ki Shadi
ammara ahmad Dec 7, 2005 interacts: 11She would bluntly reply to the question, “ Will you keep me instead of my sister?” This was obscene when said to males, but not that she cared
Superstitious Me: Pappu decides to marry for Allah
Atif Nov 23, 2005 interacts: 12Pappu, my close friend, decided to get married for the sake of Allah Subhanahu watallah and to fulfill his deen.
Savita’s Choice
Kalpana Sharma Sep 18, 2005 interacts: 6Hundreds of child marriages are held across Rajasthan with no one stopping them. The reality sinks in when the children attain puberty by which time they are told they have no choice. But they do.
Do Corn Pops Really Determine the Future?
nazish nomani Sep 7, 2005 interacts: 14I am normal. My other half is not. To answer your next question, yes I do prefer a venti white chocolate mocha with no shot of raspberry over a tall white chocolate mocha with a shot of raspberry
Muslims Not Married in America
Fazeel Chauhan Jun 28, 2005 interacts: 116How hard is it to find a good man? Or a good woman for marriage?
Fauzia’s Rejection
A Bismil May 18, 2005 interacts: 321Fauzia stood in front a full length mirror, staring at her naked body. Her skin was a smooth mocha colored canvas of beauty on which were painted the dark chocolate areolas and a black triangle of hidden mystery.
Adultery Anonymous
Farzana Versey May 5, 2005 interacts: 70The Other Woman is a floozy? The Other Man is a slimeball? No. In fact, it could be you.
Punch Drunk Love
saman abbasi Apr 22, 2005 interacts: 38He lay on the drawing room carpet; face down, totally drunk and vomiting. My eyes welled up and I could not stop my sobs.
Visitor
Zia Ghory Apr 15, 2005 interacts: 7He didn’t know what he’d say, but he couldn’t wait to see her. Now all he wanted to do was fall into bed and close his eyes, wake up in his bedroom back home. He got up.
Catfood and Little Women
Amrita Rajan Feb 16, 2005 interacts: 52Life, then, comes down to a debate as to which is worse: death by dreariness or death as catfood.
More on the Price of Love
Beena Sarwar Feb 10, 2005 interacts: 13They hailed from different ethnic communities, lived in different cities, and their family backgrounds were entirely different. But they met, became friends, and wanted to marry.
Ruzbihan and the Eunuch
Muhammad Farhan Jan 24, 2005 interacts: 8Being the smallest in his family, little Ruzbihan had a hard time trying to figure out ways to end his post-marriage misery. Sometimes he thought about divorce, but he knew his mother would kill herself if he did that. Sometimes he thought of committing s
Strangers in California
Amrita Rajan Jan 16, 2005 interacts: 38It’s one thing to come out to your wife and another to come out to your entire family
Premala ka Pyar
Madeha Chaudry Jan 12, 2005 interacts: 13She waited with patient resoluteness for the rising sun as he slept with his fingers entwined deeply in her hair…
The Baby...
Madeha Chaudry Jan 2, 2005 interacts: 8Sometimes he was unable to hide his impatience with her when he came home from his job at the pharmacy and saw her sitting in the same hunched over position as he had left her that morning.
’NO’ to Ostentatious Displays and Wasteful Expenses
Salil Kader Dec 17, 2004 interacts: 43Supreme Court had banned serving of meals at hotels, clubs and marriage halls for marriage ceremonies. The Court, in its order, specified that ‘no meals or edibles other than hot and cold drinks could be served to guests.’
The Gun
Jawahara Saidullah Dec 9, 2004 interacts: 21A life which, after his retirement kept him on edge, surprised in a world that had changed so drastically since he had entered the service so many years ago. His wife was the biggest surprise.
The Incurable Bedding Flu!
B Righter Sep 1, 2004 interacts: 12The novice would like to believe that this surely accounts for all the items in the bedding. However, don’t make the cardinal sin of forgetting the bedskirt
An Open Letter to Jemima Khan
Farzana Versey Jul 20, 2004 interacts: 111Many celebrated alliances in the West have fallen apart due to straying and jealousy. But you, Jemima, were one neat shoulder from which to fire the gun at the ‘jihadis’.
What Is the Point of Marriage?
A Shiraz Mar 17, 2004 interacts: 52All went well until people began to fall in love with anyone and everyone.
Hold Karain! Movie Bun Rahee Hai!
Rozaiba Feb 27, 2004 interacts: 27Flashes go off from around the room as friends and relatives try to greedily capture the moment through their lens while those looking on blink their eyes from the glare. Soft music is being played in the background ...
Conversion Confusion
sameena khan Feb 26, 2004 interacts: 13Naila’s wedding is as old as Uzma’s younger son…running into six…and she is still issueless. Initially, the delay was intentional…the family is not sure if it is so anymore.
A Case for Banning Polygamy
Ayesha I Khan Dec 3, 2003 interacts: 239The practice of polygamy preceded Islam, and Quranic injunctions sought to first limit and eventually dispense entirely with the regressive custom.
What time is it? Marriage time
Teju Prasad Oct 20, 2003 interacts: 17In comparing these two systems (East & West), many people point to India’s low divorce rate and therefore claim innate superiority. However, the analysis is inconclusive when taking into account the cultural stigma associated with marital termin
Do Foes of Gay Marriages Simply Fear Joy?
Tarek Fatah Sep 21, 2003 interacts: 274As these couples embraced their future together, we couldn’t help but feel sad for Canada’s gay and lesbian couples who are being pilloried for seeking the same happiness.
Of Weddings and Disney
Batool Ali Sep 18, 2003 interacts: 36When I saw the movie, Father of the Bride, I thought wow! these Americans spend so much money on their weddings. Hell, they have a wedding planner. Lo and behold, Pakistanis are no lesser mortals. We not only have our very own wedding planners, our weddin
Foreign Qualified
Mohammad Qayyum Aug 28, 2003 interacts: 22ilm hassil karo chahay is kai liyae tumhain cheen bhi kyoon na jana parai
Sufi, Practice Love Because Mathematics is Difficult
Mohammad Gill Jul 14, 2003 interacts: 30Sufi’s real name was Muhammad Afzal. I met him for the first time when I went to Islamia College, Railway Road, Lahore, for my Faculty of Science (F.Sc.) education in 1951.
Of Early Marriages
Madiha Waris Jun 27, 2003 interacts: 28My just-turned-twenty friend tries to maintain a balance between the robust baby in her right arm, and her large, stuffed hold all in the other. She tells me he’s being naughty today; he isn’t this bad tempered usually.
Trembling Camera Flare on a Column Within a Column
Zeeshan Mahmud May 28, 2003 interacts: 71women who end up in this exclusive club-like section
The Wheels of Time
Jagmohan Chadha May 13, 2003 interacts: 143We join the pathway of time, with our joys and tragedies and then leave, while the time moves on uncaring.
My Beautiful Rizwan
Samina Rizwan Apr 5, 2003 interacts: 79Such was the overpowering presence in my life, of Rizwan - my husband, my friend, my soulmate, my shaheed.
The Infidel
Godot Feb 13, 2003 interacts: 24Translated from Urdu, Ismat Chughtai’s short story ‘Kafir’
A Day In The Bazaar
Sobia Aslam Feb 3, 2003 interacts: 29The young boy bumping into her made her mad, madder than she had ever been, but he escaped on his bicycle, grinning, that little bastard.
The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses
Subroto Roy Dec 28, 2002 interacts: 33Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art
Shammo’s Curse
Aamir Ibrahim Dec 9, 2002 interacts: 15falling out of love is easy if the foundations are weak
Larka, Larki Aur Smartee
Shehlah Zahiruddin Nov 10, 2002 interacts: 42I failed to comprehend why a perfectly sane English description was being replaced by a ghastly Urdu word – one that evoked images of barbers’ shops, naked men and an equally rude Urdu idiom.
Teasing or Torture?
Bina Shah Nov 6, 2002 interacts: 82both men and women are equal losers when it comes to sexual harassment in our country
The Sad Reality of Arranged Marriages in South Asia
Aqdas Afzal Nov 2, 2002 interacts: 165Arranged Marriages are Racist and prevent Social Mobility
Perfect Women. Imperfect Men
Nafees Ghaznavi Oct 24, 2002 interacts: 68women should also be able to fulfill their responsibilities towards their homes
The Politics of Rape
Beena Sarwar Sep 28, 2002 interacts: 36Why the Meerwala Jatoi panchayat thought they would get away with it
Don Shultz
Mohammad A Shaikh Sep 5, 2002 interacts: 23He was a thin dangling creature nearing eighty
The Red Dress
Zafar Anjum Mar 29, 2002 interacts: 70With the mountainous weight of forty-three years
Forced Marriages in the UK
Tariq Ali Dec 30, 2001 interacts: 41Parents don’t listen to what their children want
The Brahmin Warrior
Rehan Ansari Dec 8, 2001 interacts: 42He found Hey Ram disturbing, but not in a good way.
The Virgin Bride
Nafisa Haji Aug 4, 2001 interacts: 234The idea of doing that with some sophisticated American bombshell...was paralyzing
White Charade
Urstruly Jun 22, 2001 interacts: 234Based on true events, circa early ‘90s, Karachi, when The White Charade became a symbol of terror
Ismat Chughtai’s Autobiography -- A Transalation
Muniba Kamal Nov 8, 2000 interacts: 47Let her, said my father
The Relationship That Heals
Ali Hashmi Nov 1, 2000 interacts: 28no one comes to see me because they are happy or content with their life.
Oi, Kinniyaan Memaan Keetiyan Ne.
Omar Phoenix Jun 1, 2000 interacts: 19It’s a clean slate,
The Paki’s had his fun,
American Born, British Born, Canadian Born but still Desi
Hassan I Ahmed Feb 28, 2000 interacts: 60I thought that the desi’s living abroad would have the best of both worlds.
Her Other Self
Jawahara Saidullah Nov 1, 1999 interacts: 12Why did she wake up in nightmarish sweats chased by dark fears?
Of Boylove and Boylovers
Sabia Ahmed Aug 31, 1999 interacts: 223We (even in the oh-so-liberal West) live in a more conformist society that we are led to believe
Marriage from a Man’s Point of View
Arif Abrar Jun 27, 1999 interacts: 34I have three words for other men about to take the plunge, when in doubt, smile and nod
An Inward Journey to Pakistan - Part 1
Kamran Akhtar May 27, 1999 interacts: 42An introspective travlelogue of a journey to Pakistan after 16 years of absence.
Full Moon on the Ganges
Rebecca R Kose Feb 17, 1999 interacts: 21Night time on a cremation ground, among the bones and the spirits.
Just Another Woman
Anne Shamim Dec 11, 1998 interacts: 67They used you as a guinea pig, an experimental drug.
The Bride Burning
Begum F Shahnaz Nov 23, 1998 interacts: 5Mankind will not stand by and witness our burning: Mankind will not immolate truth.
Conversation with Mukul Kesavan
Rehan Ansari Nov 10, 1998 interacts: 13What was your Akbar S. Ahmed thinking casting Christopher Lee as Jinnah
Evil Spirits Travel in Straight Lines
Sheldon Pacotti Oct 19, 1998 interacts: 3Two French scientists go to Senegal to fight a resistant strain of malaria.
The Judge
Saima Shah Jun 22, 1998 interacts: 27It was an ordinary summer in a very hot country. Life was full of possibilities and poetry.
The Quranic Concept of Love
Kashif A Shehzada May 28, 1998 interacts: 2A Quranic perspective on love, choosing one’s life partner, and intimate relations amongst the sexes.
For My Love
Mustafa A Menai Apr 14, 1998 interacts: 1...mullah wife gadding about in a dodge ’em car, quaking with full blooded mirth.
Azadi
Sheldon Pacotti Mar 24, 1998 interacts: 5A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol
Phuppi ki Beti, Mamoon ka Beta
Anita Zaidi Mar 6, 1998 interacts: 47The dilemma of cousin marriages and inbreeding.
Aitchison: Scenes From Within
Asim Hayat Mar 3, 1998 interacts: 25...the old architecture, the grand cricket pitch in the main grounds, the smell of the rose bushes, the water heater radiators which never functioned well...
Selective Islam in Pakistan
Imran Khan Jan 21, 1998 interacts: 50I feel there are certain western countries with far more Islamic traits than us, especially in the way they protect the rights of their citizens.
Love Means Never Having to Say You Are An Infidel!
Moe Chaudry Nov 26, 1997 interacts: 21Can you be a Muslim and marry a Jew? A closer look at inter-religious marriages.
Tania
Umair A Khan Nov 20, 1997 interacts: 15Tania. He has looks, he has a BMW, he has all the girls he can handle, said Saadia beginning to wrap the phone cord around her fingers.
As Long As It Does Not Affect You
Umair A Khan Oct 23, 1997 interacts: 5So a woman needs to get married but a man doesn’t?
My Fallible Lord
Ashim Banerjee Sep 1, 1997 interacts: 3And do you think the big man upstairs is satisfied with his creation?
