Ishq Hai from mismatched has done a huge damage. After I realised from reels that it’s based on O Rangrez, I have started listening to everything with a pinch of salt. now everything sounds familiar, and I am able to figure out the source many a times.

My ninth anniversary of having acquired blindness, cheers to 9 years of not judging any book by its cover and perceiving through my third eye LOL

all pahaadi songs are at least as good as Coke studio Pakistan’s sound quality, and music quality period

I am leaving for Delhi. For the purposes of dropping me downstairs till the taxi, my papa took a shower, wore pagdi, lit jot in the Mandir, and kept grains and water outside for pigeons. all by 4 AM! If I had 1% of this efficiency, I would be a Supreme Court judge at 25

Emotionally available friends ruin dating and make standards unrealistic We spent 1 hr talking about whether a random Aunty my friend met on a train, could be a good mother-in-law to her. Now I can’t do with a person who is less invested than that 😂

On the surface, I hate it, but secretly, I love it— when I visit home, Papa spends all his time making me sweets & chai masala. Feminist scholarship would object, but to me, his fluidity between the kitchen & outside is classic feminism in action.

Kitne zalim hain woh log jo kehte hain, gulab tod lo, gulab mat chhodo. Baghban, mera toh khayal hai, gulab ko dekho, gulab mat todo. - Jaun Elia If poetry and environmental activism makes one feel less single, then why not? ❤️😂

@MrsSigmundFraud Nazm e anchal

I amend my initial assertion that I will post poetry on a regular basis. That is humanly not possible. As Dr Salman Akhtar says-art is like an epilepsy attack, it happens to you, you can’t make it happen.

@aparnamittal990 Thanks haha

Your normal close and Distant friends send you words of appreciation and affirmation for starting a YouTube channel. Only your best friend can have the audacity to send you a middle finger.

The downside of being a shopkeeper’s daughter, neither was my virtual law degree taken seriously and nor is work from home taken seriously. They see me lounging in the bed and they feel How can she be doing Important work unless she is not sitting at the Galla 😂

4/2/25 रहना नामुनकिन रहा होगा, तब ही छोड़कर चले गए। वरना महज़ मुश्किलों के चलते छोड़ जाना, तो उनकी फ़ितरत कभी न थी।

I write for @Article14live on the need to reform state anatomy acts to ensure better and more efficient supply of cadavers for medical training and research while respecting the rights of the deceased.

@mansi_guptaa_ writes this very informative piece on competition law implications for food delivery apps. Doing retired bureaucrat things already 😁

People would idealise Abdul Kalam. I am tempted to put a poster of my house help didi on my desk, who refuse to take a comp off for the extra work shee did for the house party the day before…

Went to the Gurudwara for my mom’s birthday. A kind aunty helped me around, then ended with, ‘May God not give this dependence to anyone.’ Ma’am, I was about to call you my bestie.

Getting up early in the morning and going to Gurudwara to listen to the Ardaas and the Kirtan, heaven is on earth only. I wish I could do it more often.