Saki Nama

  • A Chronological Timeline of Major Religious and World Events – Around Canaan

    If you have a general image of a timeline of major world events in your mind, and a particularly good image of world’s map, then you can understand things a lot better. And this way, events become part of your memory too. For instance, let’s make a general timeline of the world from religious perspective.…

  • Everyone’s a Side, Everyone’s a Main

    I was scrolling through deep and insightful reels on Instagram and I found this. Let me quote the exact words: “A side chick wants to be the main chick and that’s why men get caught cheating. A side guy wants to remain a side guy forever and that’s why women are not easily caught.” Someone…

  • Lahore’s Ides of March

    In the last 40 days, Lahore had winter, spring, summer, winter again – with a long weekend of Basant in Feb, and an Eid ahead. And slow, steady rains and a cold breeze. With AQI better than Paris. For some days, at least. Yes, the jackets were packed. And unpacked. Or kept stubbornly packed. Such…

  • Our Fears are Our Stories.

    Our fears are our stories. And our story is in a morgue. This is a morgue and you are nothing more than a body. You count as much as a dead body even when you are alive. After children die by accident, the state comes home to offer crocodile tears. Ideally, parents shouldn’t let them…

  • The Last Listener

    When was the first time she listened to the other person without being selfish? Without being ‘what’s in it for me’? Without “I”? Without tapping her foot? In a small but well-decorated bedroom. In a narrow bed with devices attached. A window opened to a wide lawn with trees blurred in rain. An LED TV…

  • Mud & Ashes

    THE BURIAL January 2026. The body was being laid in the grave. An overcrowded graveyard with fewer mourners for the wrapped lady. A 45-year-old Guriya. But there stood the father. Broken. Torn apart. Much older than yesterday. And it was all a repeat telecast. THE GOD. My God. If cruelty had a blasphemous image. “I’m…

  • The Shadow of our own Darkness

    On the flip side of the classes, poor people have higher birth rates than upper-middle and elite classes and they are in much larger numbers. Roughly half of the population is poor. That half is producing laborers and slaves for the top two classes. A kid born here will serve a kid born there. No,…

  • The Gutter

    The conception. The long nine months. The birth – the lone God-gesture only mothers can perform. The nurturing of a new life. A woman giving her body, in return for heavenly pain, to become a mother. The prophetic transformation. From womb to lap. Day and night. Night and day. The first word. The second. Crawling.…

  • Kill

    To kill. One of the first human instincts. Then bury. The second instinct. Then takeover the leftovers. Third instinct. Then be remembered as a villain throughout the history. Not an instinct. It’s a lineage. A bloody lineage. The one who got killed, died. The one who killed, reproduced. Until, 8 billion. 8 billion galaxies. And…

  • Power till Death

    Remember how he died in the end? Do you see how unlucky he was? You know he never found peace? Such are the words of losers. Those who can’t do anything, hence they pity the one who should be hated. Power is when you are alive. It matters till death. With medals and meals. Uniform…