Yours truly interviewed ..

Here is a small email interview that the people at the Spectator asked me for.

My fav poem these days :)

Let Me Not Forget
If it is not my portion to meet thee in this life
then let me ever feel that I have missed thy sight
—let me not forget for a moment,
let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams
and in my wakeful hours.
As my days pass in the crowded market of this world
and [...]

Blackouts in Lahore

More on growing up in Lahore here
Lights are ‘out’ these days oftener than ‘in’ ….
Soon, my thoughts settled on memories I have not visited in years. Memories I have unsuccessfully tried to evoke before but they proved to be elusive, leading me down dark alleys and then disappearing into thin air. I am convinced that [...]

Leadership risk or failure?

This morning I woke to the news of another political leader getting shot in yet another developing country. The question that comes to ones mind is why does it happen in developing countries only? Words like corruption, poverty, illiteracy and hopelessness in society come to mind. I don’t think it happens due to any of [...]

Some thoughts – by Fiza

In 2006, Israeli indiscriminate use of several million cluster bombs against Lebanese civilian population raised much outcry across the world. Most of these were fired in the last seventy two hours of the conflict. UN officials estimates claim that southern Lebanon is saturated with 1 million unexploded bomblets, far outnumbering the 650,000 people living in [...]

London’s day of innocence!

Guardian article:
After reading this I wish I was not stuck outside London. I have been living in London for a few years now, and yearned to see a different side of the city.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
“For a day at least, Londoners returned to a forgotten innocence. Yesterday the headlines howled about how [...]