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Friday November 22, 2024
Unsa Athar

  • June 18, 2021

    Rediscovering reading

    Reading has multitudes of benefits. I started reading as a means of escape. When life around me felt a little too real, Hogwarts would open its...

  • March 05, 2021

    Dunking in MeToo?

    Here is the thing about nightmares; you wake up and take three breaths and you slowly start coming back to reality....

  • September 11, 2020

    Muslim women: between a rock and a hard place

    Try to picture yourself in the shoes of the writers. See the world from their perspective for a day!

  • May 15, 2020

    COVID-19 VS HUNGER

    It started raining at 2 P.M. I opened my window. A fresh breeze with tiny drops of rain might help me become elated....

  • January 17, 2020

    An ode to King Edward Medical University

    On December 21, 1911, Lahore Medical College was renamed as King Edward Medical College, in order to celebrate the revolutionary changes brought in...

  • January 03, 2020

    I am a doctor - can I be a bride too?

    Your daughter is a medical graduate now. She has a good degree in her hand. She gets a proposal.....

  • September 13, 2019

    The fat algorithm

    I see a young girl, hardly over 12 years old, walking in the ultrasound room for a sonogram.....

  • May 17, 2019

    The blame-game

    There are some people who go through life without giving it a second thought and without reflecting on their existence.........

  • January 11, 2019

    I live with ghosts

    I am a wounded healer. I have ghosts that live with me now......

  • November 23, 2018

    The wounded healers

    Those of you who are regular readers of Us know me for a while now. My articles have kind of made.....

  • September 28, 2018

    Trans rights - an elusive dream

    “She has self-inflicted wound marks. You should get her HIV status checked.”

  • June 29, 2018

    An intern’s cry for help

    I was sitting in the Emergency Operation Theatre with a patient lying in front of me on the operating table....

  • May 04, 2018

    # Me too

    I am an overweight person who doesn’t really take care of her skin and is categorized as ugly by herself...

  • April 27, 2018

    Vomiting thoughts

    A friend suggested that I write a journal. He said it would be awesome one day to publish it as a novel....

  • January 26, 2018

    A page from my diary: Everyday insecurities of an anxious girl

    ‘Faith means someone seeing something in you that you don’t, and not giving up until you see it too.’ - Luckiest Girl Alive....