Author Archives: aalahazrat

On being 30 and such things.

Posted on September 22, 2010 by aalahazrat

Time : Midnight (the bitching hour). Location: Five miles from the Arabian Sea. Characters: A thirty something man Altamash, his wife Nida, a purple teapot and a rather irritable Kangaroo It is Altamash’s birthday and a microsecond after midnight, the … Continue reading →

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Faiz Sahab

Posted on August 28, 2010 by aalahazrat

I have always been absolutely in awe of Faiz Sb. So have most Pakistanis interested in poetry or politics or literature or aesthetics. He is the one aesthetic idol which we all worship for the beauty that he creates through … Continue reading →

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w w w

Posted on August 25, 2010 by aalahazrat

Not the world wide web and the glories of the Information Age; rather, What women want. Recent excavations at the city of Pomplaneum in central Italy have unearthed an engraved tablet which contains the first few lines of a groundbreaking … Continue reading →

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Daagh Daagh Ujala

Posted on August 14, 2010 by aalahazrat

So, there was another 14th August today. 63 years after Pakistan came into existence. East Pakistan was lost in 1971 because an excessively colonial attitude, bigotry, militarism and apathy towards the plight of compatriots. Kashmir was partially lost in 1948 … Continue reading →

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August Mubarak

Posted on August 8, 2010 by aalahazrat

I expected a pre 14 August post where I would be gushing and beaming with happiness. But, I have already lost faith in the country and its future because of all the violence at individual and communal levels rife in … Continue reading →

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Convergence and Angelina Jolie

Posted on August 4, 2010 by aalahazrat

* This post may include references and spoilers for the movie “Salt”. Please proceed only if you have seen the movie, or intend not to. Fortunate men get to acquire knowledge. Even more fortunate are men who get to apply … Continue reading →

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Perspective

Posted on May 10, 2010 by aalahazrat

Perspective. A rather interesting English word that people from some countries are apt to mispronounce. But words are words, and Mangoes doubly so. One must not judge Mangoes or words by the apparent meaning that they portray, but, one must … Continue reading →

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On the academic pursuits of Doctors Murphy, Tang, Iyer, Hamidi

Posted on February 12, 2010 by aalahazrat

Two questions have baffled mankind since the dawn of time. We must consider ourselves lucky to be living in times when these questions have been answered. Dr Murphy’s (of the Boston Murpheys) eminent “Compendium of Useful and Liberating Information” published … Continue reading →

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Partial Eclipse of the Brain

Posted on January 16, 2010 by aalahazrat

Yours truly was overly excited about the great natural phenomenon which is a solar eclipse. Since I had been very bad the past one year, Santa decided to provide only half of my wishes and I was blessed with a … Continue reading →

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Lipstick Jungle and the Ilk thereof

Posted on December 15, 2008 by aalahazrat

Work, life and more (The saga continues) I hate Sex and the City. And I hated the movie more than, oh so much more than, I hate stupid people. That is saying a lot. Listening to four grown women crib … Continue reading →

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