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This is something that I had been wanting to write for a long time. We cannot stop the natural process of evolution and death of something but we can immortalize it by writing and making art. So here's my love letter to a world I always want to remember.
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The goal of my life is to buy a huge and beautiful haveli in some remote and faraway village, with lots of trees and plants, fill it with books, poetry, classical music and love and warmth and live there for the rest of my days. Is that too much to ask for?
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Tea by Salman Toor
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having a room like this could literally solve half of my problems
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I just love how Pakistani dramas from the 90s paid more attention to frames which effortlessly captured the intimacy and warmth of human relationships and spaces so beautifully. Now it's just completely senseless dialogues and repetitive stories. Wish they would bring this back:(
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Guys I just can't get enough of the bougainvillea vines covering everything. I'm so crazy about them!!! Best part about spring 🥺❤️
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My respect for him just increased by 1000x! When I say Mohammed Hanif is a national treasure there's a reason behind it 🙌🏻
#StopBalochGenocide
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All those celebrating the student-led revolution in Bangladesh, I wish you'd do the same for Baloch students who are out on the streets right now demanding justice for years of atrocities committed against them and their families...
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'Who is without sin in the city of my beloved'
_ Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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I genuinely believe that there is a big void in modern Pakistani literature caused by the lack of rural representation. I'm not saying that the "big city , big story" plot isn't interesting but what about the man sitting on a 'charpai' in a wheat field smoking his hookah? or
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I think I've fallen in love with Amrita Sher Gill's paintings depicting scenes of rural Punjab, mainly focusing on female intimacy and loneliness. Such evocative stories each of these seem to entail, they speak to you.
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Also, here's an ode to the unsung giant of Seraiki literature.
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Reading Faiz and letting him stab my heart with his words is one of my favorite eid rituals
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Makes me shudder to think about the treatment she must have gotten enough for her to resign considering how stubborn and fierce she is....the cycle never stops.
پی ٹی آئی چھوڑتے ہوئے سیاست کو خیر باد کہہ رہی ہوں۔
ڈاکٹر شیریں مزاری
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These words by James Baldwin live rent-free inside my head:
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Read about Sara Shagufta, one of Urdu's fiercest female poets also known as "The first angry poet of Urdu". The woman who was shunned away by the society and her family because of her naked writings and feminism.
@folkloristan
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I'm literally her, reincarnated except I could never write half as beautifully as her but the lovergirl experience is almost the same
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The Arundhati Roy of course!!!
Which famous person (dead or alive) would you want to go for a coffee with?
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This poem by
@_joseolivarez
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POV: your card declines at therapy so they make you watch this again
you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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Rashida James-Saadiya/ Shukar bin-Lisan/ (Thankfulness of the tongue)
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The Lunchbox is a very underrated movie and it teaches one so many things.... Like knowing when to walk away from something and to slow down sometimes. It's beautiful and brilliantly portrays the brutality of everyday life. Please watch it if you haven't yet!🙏🏻❤️
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Decades later these words by manto still haunt the streets of both countries, they keep becoming truer and truer with each passing day while religious intolerance and bigotry become a norm 💔
Homes of Christians have been burnt/looted following the senseless violence in
#Jaranwala
after unsubstantiated blasphemy allegations emerged. I hope CM
@MohsinnaqviC42
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@GovtofPunjabPK
compensates these families who don't even have any more clothes to wear.
#Pakistan
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Everyone shut up this instance Kafka is the only one who gets it 🥹🤌
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Alright everyone I get the whole minimalist, classy lifestyle but what about white havelis covered in colorful bougainvilleas and rooms with kaleidoscopic windows which splatter light all over the floor and big heavy beds with cute cushions?🥹🌺🫶
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there's something about this poem that keeps pulling me back to it from time to time. It's just so.....🤌
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When Hanif Abdurraqib said "The poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists."
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Oh please... nothing can top this!
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but, like....is the constitution okay? did anyone check up on her?
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_Antonio Gramsci (1931) in a letter from prison to his mother.
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When Nietzsche said: "You have always approached everything terrible trustfully. You have wanted to pet every monster." He was talking about me
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It's made me so sad that this film has received acclaim and standing ovations at international levels yet people at home will be unable to watch it. Banning art and cinema is not the answer. Stories like these deserve to be told.
#ReleaseJoyland
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen
Vladimir Lenin
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Arundhati Roy will be publishing a memoir and Mohammed Hanif's novel will also be coming out. I'm so ready for 2025
Beyond thrilled to share that
@mohammedhanif
's next novel, Rebel English Academy, will be out next year, and it's a banger. Unflinching and hilarious, it showcases his unparalleled ability to find humour in the darkest corners of history.
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I have an exam tomorrow but here I am getting my heart ripped apart by Louise Gluck's poetry. Friday night y'all!
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💔🇵🇸
Children in Gaza suffer from panic attacks as a result of the heavy lsraeli bombing which hasn’t stopped for nine consecutive days.
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this excerpt from a poem by Noon Meem Rashid has been hovering inside my head for the past two days , how hauntingly beautiful... every word I read of his gets engraved in my heart and mind 🤌♥️
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Story time: So the other day my sister was with her friends at coco cubano lahore and it was during 11:30 ish PM at night and after she got free from the dinner, she booked a Suzuki WagonR as a ride on
@inDriverApp
for herself and it arrived after 11 minutes.
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here's a reminder for you from fahmida riaz to go the way your blood beats
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A portrait of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish with his Israeli girlfriend Rita.
When he discovered that she was working for the Israeli Mossad Intelligence, he wrote "I felt like my homeland was occupied again."
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Me when Parveen Shakir said :
'Gaye mausam mein jo khilte they gulaabon ki tarah,
Dil pe utrein ge wohi khwaab azaabon ki tarah.' and 'Wou samundr hai tou phir rooh ko shadab karey,
Tishnagi kyun mujhe deta hai saraabon ki tarah.' all in a single ghazal:
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Finally...Inner peace🥹 🤌🤌
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I was not the same person after finishing this
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This is such an awful country for women. I hate how a girl can't even take a 2-minute stroll outside her home without the constant fear of being r*ped. It's so frustrating! Schools aren't safe, offices aren't safe, parks aren't safe, and houses aren't safe where should women go?
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girls when that one guy they've been crushing over for three years does the indelible mistake of saying something utterly stupid in the middle of a great conversation
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'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.'
Kafka.
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When Faiz said 'nahi nigaah mein manzil to justujoo hi sahi' and when Ahmed Faraz said 'hum agar manzilein na ban paaye, manzilon tak ka raasta hojayein'
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i have many mothers
girls and that one female writer who's like a second mother to them
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کہ زندگی تری زلفوں کی نرم چھاؤں میں
گزرنے پاتی تو شاداب ہو بھی سکتی تھی...
_ساحر
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the story of a crumbling haveli covered in bougainvilleas , or the story of the woman living in a secluded part of the village away from everyone's eyes all alone or why every Friday night there is an invisible crowd laughing under the 'peepal' tree near the 'darbaar'?
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When Marina Tsvetaeva said: “I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.”
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Intentionally putting this here to remind you guys that I have a nose piercing and that Baloch attire is just 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
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So many rich stories buried in our rural lands especially the southern Punjab and there is no one to write them and mostly the ones who can either don't want to write those because they don't sell or because they just want to fit in the bigger picture.
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I think I'll never be able to come to terms with the fact that you have to remember people longer than you have known them
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This one poem by Agha Shahid Ali that I keep returning back to:
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When Harper Lee said: "Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
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Dying to buy this book by Ismat Chugtai which isn't easily available in Pakistan but it's so damn expensive. Books becoming more expensive than my kidneys with each passing day will be my villain origin story...
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The amount of love and admiration that I have for this woman in my heart is indescribable🥹❤️
Writer, Writing, Thinking… Arundhati Roy, Delhi, 2023.
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Yes I will listen to this ghazal over and over again until my ears bleed because it reminds me of desolate summer afternoons in my gaon and someone's eyes. I like being destroyed by nostalgia
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