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Did Cinderella really want to marry Prince Charming?
The notion that only a prince or princess (a glamorous spouse) can save you from a hopeless situation is wrong!
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Who are you, Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde?
"Remember when I wanted to attend my grandmother’s funeral, the woman who raised me, and didn't allow me to?"
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Where are all the moderate Muslims?
Is our faith so fragile that it wavers every time someone from another faith, ideology, mind-set voices an opinion?
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Global patriarchy and women of a lesser God
Both were beaten up, and the woman was stripped and forced to breastfeed her alleged lover in public.
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Giving life to the Frankenstein within us
She was so busy paying attention to the mundane that she ended up losing her husband to her best friend.
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Majnu loves Layla, but Ammi doesn’t
He was Shia, She was Sunni, the parents were unreasonable. The wedding between them never happened, but an affair did.
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No guts, no glory, no brain, same story
I am talking to you. Yes, you. Make the decision. In the words of the brand we can’t name, “Just do it!”
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What if heaven was unprepared for the little souls of Peshawar?
They massacred our children today, they made it personal, they hit us where it hurts the most.
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Red Riding Wolf, the child abuser
Laal had worked in our household for generations and was never considered hired help; he was family.
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Blind date, beauty or beast?
Do marriages from romantic love and arranged marriages arrive at the same destination from different paths?