Stories from Chris Cork
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On the Shalimar Express
The trip was 2 hours quicker than by bus, ticket prices were the same as for the bus and food was immeasurably better
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Revolution, episode 318
The revolution set to reach its umpteenth climax is no more real than the soapy mirror it derives legitimacy from
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Stuck in the middle
By national standards, we have all the accoutrements of the middle class
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Trying to understand
My failure to understand is failure to understand that madness is the new sanity, and it was me that was mad all along
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The silence of the clams
Consumed as clam-beds are with day-to-day survival, they are largely depoliticised, have no access to power corridors
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Run out of revs
Dr Q always had Plan B. If it all went to worms, there was Canada to fall back on, but for IK, there is nowhere to go
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Simple pleasures
What Pakistani children may lack were developed hand-to-eye skills, dexterity, ability to relate a 2D plan to a 3D kit
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Early in 2018…
And who will win the 2018 elections? Why… the PML-N, of course!
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A week of ‘what if’s’
There are signs virus is inside the body, flexing muscles to letting loose fever that presages beheadings, floggings
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So where are we?
This is not a revolution Dear Reader, but it may prove to be political evolution on fast-forwards