The whole country despises the same person: Feeha Jamshed

Heir to TeeJays, Feeha Jamshed on the miracle of child birth, going blank and wanting to be a horse.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Perfect happiness is in any given moment.

What is your greatest fear?

Losing my memory.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

That I sometimes go blank when I need to do something.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

People have lost their individuality and running after the same thing has made them robots. That they think they have the right to control other people’s lives when they can’t even control their own.

What is your greatest extravagance?

Travelling and, at the moment, a good massage.

What is your current state of mind?

My current state of mind is always in a parallel world.

On what occasion do you lie?

Sometimes to avoid the unlimited questions that come one’s way.

Which living person do you most despise?

According to me the whole country despises the same person at the moment...

What is the quality you most like in a man?

Honesty and the ability to be comfortable in his own skin.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?

The fact that a woman can change a cell into a baby inside her with the help of God is spectacular.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Well, it depends on the situation; different phrases come to mind.

When and where were you happiest?

I am happiest whenever I sit with my friends and family and relive old moments, whether from my childhood or things that happened a few days ago.

Which talent would you most like to have?

To be able to sing.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I would think twice before doing something to myself.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Not the greatest but on the list of achievements would be to get TeeJays back in people’s minds like it was in the seventies and eighties.

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

Either the same person but in the seventies. Or, if I have to come back as an animal, a horse.

Where would you most like to live?

Here, up in the mountains or on an island.

What is your most treasured possession?

The conversations I had with my dad and my paternal and maternal grandfathers when I was younger.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

When you completely lose yourself and become a slave to your own or other people’s insecurities.

If you didn’t do your current job, what would you choose to do?

I would be running a really cool magazine and the office would look like a magazine in itself where the walls would just be covered with collages of posters of music, art, pop art and fashion.

What is your most marked characteristic?

My chilled malangi attitude.

Who is your hero of fiction?

Robin Hood.

What is your greatest regret?

Regrets are things that turn out to be a learning experience for the present and which lay foundations for the future.

What’s your favourite quote?

“Style makes the man, man then creates revolutionary
fashion.”

How many hours of loadshedding did you experience yesterday?

The electricity went five or six times.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17-10-2010