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Ode to 55/B Shah Abdul Latif Road

The past week, incidentally I went by the old house a number of times and sadly, all those partition-era houses in my old locality are being converted into apartments buildings. Noone seems to be concerned of this architecture, the remnants of an era, van

Immigrants: Na Idhar ke, Na uddhar ke

I moved to Canada four years ago - at the time, we - my spouse and I - were determined to 'make a life' in Toronto or live there permanently. However circumstances and family obligations impelled us to move back to Pakistan eventually.

Book: The Kite Runner

The Kite runner is a book that subtly exposes what our history books conceal and does so in a personal, very emotional way that makes for mesmerizing reading.

Living in Fear

I remember, a few years back, after a majlis, one of my relatives took out a white dupatta from her bag and wore it before leaving. “They can tell you’re Shia if you wear black in Muharram”

Azra

I feel like I’m stuck at a perpetual yellow light. As if all this is temporary...I want to be freed. From myself and from meaningless encounters with relatives and acquaintances who know nothing about me, who are more alien than the stranger sittin

Of Weddings and Disney

When 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

The Blackout

I thoroughly enjoyed power-less Toronto

Book: Life Isn`t All ha ha hee hee

Set in England, its about the lives of working, single, late-twenty-early-thirty yr old East Indian women.

Batool Ali

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