Articles with tag: work
The Roving Stones
Haroon Malik Nov 3, 2007 interacts: 5My lords have announced they will cause revolutionary changes, changes that will cause a grass root level change. But how could they?
The Guava Woman’s Crèche
Lokhi Menon Oct 25, 2007 interacts: 2
Remembering sweet-tartness, salivating,
People taste them with their eyes.
A matronly woman stoops and buys.
Book Dropper
Ibrahim M Khalil Aug 11, 2007 interacts: 9Nicholas Nassim Taleb says there are two ways to look at your bookshelf. The books you have read and consider yourself well read or...
Women’s Day 2007
Zainub Razvi Mar 8, 2007 interacts: 7The modern woman’s struggle isn’t simply or solely about securing absolute equality... This struggle, and its an on-going one, is one of identifying our changing roles within society and our homes, it’s about understanding and accepting
Wag the Tail
M A Shah Aug 29, 2006 interacts: 24In one of my articles, in a comment - someone wrote that we Asians are treated like dogs in the Middle East. How true.
Earthquake Relief Efforts
Bina Shah Oct 10, 2005 interacts: 45The organizers told viewers that they had received enough clothing; what they needed now was medicine and volunteers to come help sort out the items.
Coffee Break
Hyder Anwar Sep 16, 2005 interacts: 12Come to think of it, did you realize that we didn’t even receive any training, first day, boom, they said here is this application, here is this software, we want these components by the end of this month, now start working.
Katrina: An Abdication of Responsibility
Temporal Sep 2, 2005 interacts: 143The mandatory evacuation called on August 28 made no provisions to evacuate homeless or low-income and car-less households, as well as large numbers of elderly and the infirm. In 2000, a census revealed that 27% of New Orleans households were without any
Driving to work
Aasim Khan Aug 18, 2005 interacts: 21Do I have everything on me? The usual morning ritual was coming to a close, it was time to go to work…laptop, cell phone, smokes, rolling paper, hashish, glasses…am I missing anything?
Union Strike One
Rezwan Bajwa Jun 14, 2005 interacts: 61Something out of the ordinary has happened over the past 3 weeks. The PTCL workers Union has pulled off a successful strike and has managed to get the privatization of the company postponed indefinitely.
The Monsoons are Coming
Zehra Rizvi Mar 30, 2005 interacts: 11Bitch sessions consist of relief workers sitting around, exchanging one frustration after another. The average time is that of three cigarettes and one Lion Beer per frustration.
Livin’ La Vida Aid-a
Zehra Rizvi Feb 28, 2005 interacts: 10The life in Colombo is easy. Instead of bitching and complaining, D and I are going to pursue other options and see if there is anywhere else that we can go. It is not about finding a hard situation so that our stories can be better...
Meeting Sattar Edhi
Ras Siddiqui Jan 16, 2005 interacts: 13No visitor to Karachi can ignore the presence of the Abdul Sattar Edhi and his wife Bilquis and their work on behalf of Pakistan’s poor.
HREP: Bringing in the Little People
Beena Sarwar Nov 22, 2004 interacts: 2Initiated in Karachi almost ten years ago, HREP aims to foster education that contributes to peace and understanding. Their books are beautifully illustrated and produced, but cheaply priced, available in Urdu as well as English.
To Be Or Not To Be Home?
sameena khan Nov 26, 2003 interacts: 65Then there is the equation with the husband. All the ladies that I spoke to put their husbands on hold till the weekend. 'Otherwise, the entire schedule goes haywire', said one. 'Can’t get up and get going early morn next day', chimed another. 'Who
To the Gallows
aaisha khan Sep 21, 2003 interacts: 8The ill-fitting jail garb had lost whatever little there was of its faded color. How many had worn it before their D-day? Sweat made it cling to her like a second skin. She smelled like a pile of manure. Would they allow her a bath?
