Blog Archives

• The journey has only started for PTI
• Fallen men
• Valentine’s Day, Birthdays, Cricket, Music, Pants And Phones Are Haram‏
• Adding meaning to rhetoric
• Notes From The Fiction
• ‘Tis My Say: 2012 in review
• The flawed argument in favor of reserved seats for women
• PPP apologists and intellectual dishonesty
• 2004
• Cloud Atlas – A flight through time and space
• Policy advocacy – Charging people for over-speaking
• Of Love And Lust
• How is Abdul Qadir Gilani’s win a victory for democracy?
• Finding A Solution To The Problem Of Piracy – A New Monetization Model For Content Producers
• The Show
• The logical case for ‘luck’
• Pakistan’s social media – who will guard the guards?
• Marriage and the flawed social premise for it – I
• Azaab Theory And Other Absurd Arguments By Muslims
• The Paradox Of Love
• The curious case of angry liberals and Imran Khan
• Jamat-ud-Dawa – Pakistan kay ‘Khudai Faujdar’
• Born To Die
• 2011 In Review: Another Year of Blogging
• Rejoinder to an admonishing friend
• The missing creative DNA in our students
• Versatile blogger award
• The road less travelled by
• The Great Secret – Shams al-Din Hafiz
• When life goes on
• Nomination for Blog Awards 2011
• Journey of an idea
• A dream in the countryside III – NaNoWriMo
• Imran Khan – to vote for or not?
• A dream in the countryside – II
• A dream in the countryside – I (NaNoWriMo)
• Book Review: ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf
• 11eleven – celebrating global diversity
• A breath of freedom (from being)
• 140-characters tweet stories – #TS31
• The parting entreaties
• Breaking bonds – the truth about prostitution
• How do you like em bananas?
• 1784
• Attempts at descriptive prose: A marble frame
• Steve Jobs – Rest in peace!
• The struggle for existence
• The scent of freedom
• For the love of Haqqanis
• Beauty in the mundanity
• Of Zionist mosquitoes and infidel viruses
• Morning of Final Farewell – Kenji Miyazawa
• How not to write – a guide for the non-writers
• Morning in the countryside
• An overcast evening
• A timeless dance
• Flirting with the sunset
• North-wind
• Chance and circumstance – deciding your fate
• Shahbaz Taseer’s abduction and the wave of religious extremism
• The material quest
• Of bridges, idiots and quotes
• The sin of innocent pride
• A momentary contemplation
• So long, university life!
• Kutta Raj
• Independence Day post: We are the hope!
• Ramazan – blessings and the rest
• Back to blogging!
• Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The looming hell
• Decrepitude
• The ‘power’ of belief
• Fragments
• Servants, not masters!
• OBL’s death and our convoluted policies
• The non-quest of love
• The Forgotten Language
• Looking back..
• Survey: Raymond Davis case
• Admitting the absurdity of life
• Trip to Ziarat ‘Zinda Peer’, Hasan Abdal
• A note to certain ‘fellas’
• Shylock, the Jew – an analysis
• The psychology of crime
• Interview with Us magazine
• Don’t let Riko Diq go to dogs!
• 2011 resolutions
• Embarking on the non-quest
• Harum-scarum contempalay-sion – aka usual rant special edition
• PTH vs LUBP – Dynamics of dissident discourse
• Celebrating the power of ideas – TEDxMargalla
• Thirteen random thoughts
• Citizen journalism in Pakistan
• A hard day
• A soul’s requiem
• My cessions
• Hokum bits
• This Is Not My Family
• Lost treads
• The deluge – a poem
• Sacrificing education for floods
• Hiatus
• Eidi Trip to Kot Mithan
• The pinnacle of existence
• The plight of humanity
• Blame yourself and me!
• Azm-e-Nau – Medical relief trip to Mithan Kot
• Escapade
• Lending a helping hand
• I want to stay human!!
• Neural aberrations
• Muzaffargarh expedition – contributing our two pennies
• Sixty-and-three years of indepedence
• On ‘convenient’ blogging and bloggers
• Belief and it’s lack, thereof
• Flood disaster and a mute blogosphere
• The leap of faith
• Pious moments of a hypocritical nation
• Typical PML-N responses to the Taliban question
• A failing US Af-Pak policy
• Balochistan – a ticking bomb
• Bloodshed in Lahore and the state of denial
• Happy Father’s day
• LHC ban and moral policing
• 18th amendment – looking beyond the rhetoric
• Life – a fifteen-act tragedy
• On destiny and fate
• Israeli assault on freedom flotilla
• Best Personal Blog Award
• The gruesome Lahore attack
• The argument of violence
• Power crisis and prospective solutions
• The toil
• Relativity
• Losing yet again :D
• The morning
• Campus buzz – rambling style
• Rain and recluse
• Basis for a suicide bomber
• A note for scumbags
• Happy Pakistan Day!
• University cuisine
• Exam days :S
• The Loss
• Career decisions :S
• Off-ground
• Winter partings
• Astraying
• I miss you!!!
• Ishq-e-Lafana – Hussain bin Mansoor Hallaj
• Sharing the touch of life
• Back to my solitude
• The Taliban riddle
• Winter rains
• The correct response to Aafia’s sentence
• We are ashamed, Aafia!
• Of hell, faith and miracles
• Travelling
• Keep the change!
• Back on the blog
• Learning life..
• Winterheart
• The lumbers of life
• Army and democracy in Pakistan
• Finding myself
• Crossing the lines
• On Zaid Hamid
• Patriotism
• US presence in Pakistan – reality and myth
• Media – a false hope?
• Revising our counter-insurgency strategy
• Life’s paradox
• The reign of terror
• The lone men
• God’s Omnipresence
• The Truth
• Having a BLAST! :D
• Seeking you
• Thoughts
• Tag-a-tag
• The state-of-denial rhetoric
• Going food-way
• Making long-term investments for Pakistan
• Studying contemporary intellect
• Cover story: Making an impact
• Iqbaliyat
• KLB in Us
• ‘Academic’ moments :D
• In the land of confusion
• Twilight-finally!
• Absolute identity
• December curse
• The bond
• Here’s to the Kerry Lugar Bill – a reality check!
• Thrash it out – APDC ’09
• Foreign Dictations, shut up please!
• Suicide attack at IIU, Islamabad
• National security breach
• Looking for your face – Rumi
• I wish
• Disconnecting
• APDC ’09 Update
• Having the fun of a lifetime
• FUDC ’09
• I’m tired, love
• And I went e-less
• Back to the dose of diesel parathas
• Reboot! In search for the land of oppurtunity
• Of the rustic ways
• Northwind
• Finding neverland
• Eid?
• A toll, yet again
• A night into the highlands
• Dastaan
• Social hypocrisy
• National educational policy – a change on the way?
• Never fading out
• Losing control
• Student politics
• Hope
• It is fabulous..o.o
• Main kis kay hath par apna laho talash karon?
• Back to the uni II – post-heat
• Dust-misted
• Back to the retard’s den
• Brigadier Imtiaz – the ghost from the past
• Disillusionment
• Understanding Ramadan
• Of Blackwater
• I hate you
• A post for MQM apologists
• Pearls and charcoals – a memory
• The winter goodbyes
• Ramzan Mubarik
• Boreas
• Receding
• Reflections: Goodbye holidays!
• The undefined past
• Avant-garde
• Power crisis and the nation’s woes
• God
• Testing
• Catharsis
•  Life-line
• Pakistan – problems and solutions
• Happy Independence Day
• The Bucket List
• Purpose
• The next chapter
• Mani…?
• Understanding life
• Perspective
• Voilence at Gojra
• Young World and me
• Rest in peace
• The curse of the unfulfilled
• A toast to death
• The curse of fulfillment
• Misplaced agitation
• Promises
• The end of a start
• The raindrop and life
• Obituary
• A great day
• The rain
• God’s lone man
• End of the war?
• 584
• cHaNgE
• Of international money-lenders
• Living life
• Stale
• Division of Punjab – the Seraiki province
• Watch out for the machines
• First summer rains
• Back
• Recovering
• Submission
• Exam times
• Little, nameless things
• Lost….
• Shadows
• Cobwebs
• The Pakistani dilemma
• My idle ways
• Main aur tou – Allam Iqbal
• Civilization and ideology
• Reaching for the occult
• The Munawan School assault
• The semester system….and my uni
• Suffering, recovering
• Discourse with/of life
• Conventionalism
• The quest for truth..
• Along the road..
• Nostalgic reminiscences of school days – I
• Attaining homogeneity
• 4000 visits…
• Done with Khanpur dam – finally!!
• Heaven, perhaps?
• RAW involved – CID Report says
• Tolls of life – another terrorist attack
• Reality and dream
• Midnight ramblings
• Sifting through yourself
• Words of wisdom
• Regime change
• Remembering em.. ;)
• Quotes..
• Free will
• Gaining knowledge the better way
• Diary..
• Free will and Determinism
• Looking around…
• GIMUN 09 – thank you!!
• Our self-sufficient pieties…
• Our role in the course of this universe..
• A piece of poetry in Urdu..
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Missing you..
• The restart – on to nothing
• Dreams and unconcious – a brief analysis of Freudian psychology
• Indo-Pak tension – the many facets
• Life…the cruel reality
• Keeping our length…and the distances amidst
• Flipping the chance…
• The final confiteor
• Random ramblingz
• Priming for the restart
• Hope and Despair
• At the gallows…
• Fickle hopes..
• Thoughts…….
• Lost identity
• Last goodbye
• Let differences be revealed
• Back from the no-words dilemma
• The youth power
• Insanity
• The child
• The Lal Masjid Episode
• Finally……the Potter-phenomenon ends
• Materialism
• Step aside, let me ride
• Untitled gibbrish
• Self-dignity and change
• Here goes anoda…
• Let it RAP!!!
• Waste your time
• The drama continues……
• A leaf from the book of past.
• The Taliban haunt/hunt
• A song/poem
• The F.Sc. nightmare
• Iraq on Fire.
• Be Just to Justice !
• The Iran Issue