Finally I was over with Tess of the D’Urbervilles yesterday and was not in the mood of overdoing it by reading some critical material. So I glanced at my shelf looking for something amazing to read and my eyes were held by The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
We did The Mill on the Floss in [...]
Archive for October, 2007
27 Oct
Bewitched…
27 Oct
TV expose shows horrors of Gujrat pogrom
http://dawn.com.pk/2007/10/26/int9.htm
I’m not saying it. It’s in the news!!!
26 Oct
The Mill on the Floss
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it – if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to oursleves on the grass, the same hips and [...]
24 Oct
Allama Iqbal
yun tu syed bhi ho, mirza bhi ho, afghan bhi ho
tum sabhi kuch ho,batao tu musalman bhi ho
-Allama Iqbal ( Jawab-e-Shikwa)
23 Oct
Intelligence Agencies
I was just wondering that for whom do intelligence Agencies work for…
Even ours is certainly not working for Pakistan. Who’s ultimate goals are they struggling to achieve… Who in the long run is gaining…
21 Oct
Democracy?! hahah!
On 18th of October, everyone was asked to stay home. These were the orders from all the family members, and not just mine but my friends’ too. Everyone knew it was “NOT SAFE” to go out even on the eve of Bhutto’s return.
While watching the procession from the morning till late at night, everyone knew [...]
17 Oct
Love
While doing Wuthering Heights the teacher said something which struck me. He said that when you fall in love and become one. The whole idea of being one is that one person has to submit totally forgetting his/her ego to the other person. The other becomes more important.
16 Oct
Eid… Eidi!
So yes early morning Vermicelli, kababs and chaat round at relatives, home or at close friends is how everyone start off their day on Eid-ul-Fitr. The moods and the festivities are always on their height.
The most integral part of this Eid is the EIDI! Everyone lines up in front of the elder family members (at [...]
13 Oct
Eid Mubarak!!
كل عام وانتم والمسلمين بألف خير
Eid Mubarak!
Just hope and wish that the good habits that we’ve adopted during the month of Ramadan, we continue with them for the rest of the year.Ameen.
9 Oct
Kartography…
The first few days of university, everyone seemed to brave through the coarse university schedule. We used to have a couple of classes in the morning then we’d wait till the afternoon for a couple more classes. In the beginning, I didn’t quite know how to utilize the faarigh time as it was all new [...]
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