The author is an Islamabad-based bilingual writer. His book of Urdu travel stories, Chalo, was published in 2009. He can be contacted at: masudalam@yahoo.com
Do great players attract a fan following or does a large enough fan following makes a player great? Sachin Tendulkar has a huge following in India....
Turkey is a land of beauty, Turkish cuisine is simply the most sumptuous, and Turkish people are among the most hospitable in the two continents...
The approach to Golra village was blocked off at an overflowing parking lot, as is the custom every weekend because of the swarms of villagers who...
The food was laid out and everyone sat cross-legged on the floor around heaps of koftey, roti, and salad, with roughly a jug of salty lassi per...
It’s 16 degrees Celsius in Islamabad and must feel very cold. Thousands of miles away, in Toronto from where I’m writing these words,...
Karachi is a big city with a big heart and strong, fast legs. Islamabad is a small town in comparison and suitably complacent and unhurried. And yet...
There is something with English language, or maybe something with Pakistanis. At any rate, neither makes the other feel and sound good, to put it...
There is a lot you can tell about a people by observing the way they move -- in an open field, on a city street and on a highway. Germans are the...
People do all sorts of things to earn a living. One of them is inventing phrases that sound stupid and sublime in equal measure. Like:...
Employed or unemployed, not many people work in Pakistan. Not even those whose job it is to compute the annual unemployment rate. Therefore, we know...
