Hot Takes, Chilling Truths

You must be glad that I have grown a beard and moustache. I didn’t have a choice. I couldn’t afford being distinct.

Celebrating independence is more than singing the national anthem and putting up green-and-white buntings on houses.

We went around asking people to tell us one word that described Pakistan and they didn’t have a negative word to say.

The Cold War ended but it is only now that the children schooled in General Zia’s syllabus have come to the forefront.

I realised how hard it must have been to achieve independence for our generation and we take it for granted.

For the past three years, she's won every all-around competition she’s entered.

Only the extremely wealthy are respected even if they're illiterate, because they can buy those in positions of power.

We may not know all the words, but we mean everything they represent.

The key to the secret of democracy is an involved citizen. And so, if we commit to mobilise, we must act.

After being rejected by modelling agencies, I began to see myself through their eyes; just not ‘sexy’ enough.