Author: Saki Nama
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An Ideal Time
Have you thought at what time in history – present actually – this virus has spread throughout the world? Well, at an ideal time. The vaccine isn’t here yet. It will take time. Best case: summer 2021. So, you have to wait. You always cried for family time, right? So here it is!Fasten your seatbelt.…
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Post-Virus World Order
Un-globalization in process. How many companies will adopt work-from-home model when this will be over? Isn’t it less costly? How many people will re-shape their work-family balance? Will the business and strategy books keep on teaching “globalization” like before? Will China remain the production hub of the whole world? Will the nations keep on buying…
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The Virus
China stopped Muslim women from wearing the veil. Now the whole country is in masks. Muslims win. The virus has globalized Hindu way of greeting – i.e. no handshakes. Hindus win. India isolated Kashmir. The whole world is isolated. Kashmiris win. Mecca is deserted. So is Vatican City. So are major temples and monasteries. Religious…
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23rd March, Glorification & Aerobatics
When is death glorified? When there is something fishy. Something wrong. Doctors become doctors by their own choice. Like soldiers. Or pilots. Or engineers. But these doctors are always on the front line. Right now they are risking their lives against corona virus. Other than that, a single random prick, which happens occasionally, can lead…
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Hoors, Women & #AuratMarch
No one minds when maulana sahib is delivering a khutba on ‘Hoors’. Their bodies, figures, curves, shifting from one intercourse to another, having a ‘stamina’ of 70 men and performing to eternity. No one minds. Regardless of the venue or audience. For men, the concept of the Hereafter revolves mostly around pretty hoors and sex.…
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Aurat March
Khalil ur Rehman Qamar is one good reason that Aurat March should be organized. Everywhere. In every single city of this country. This ugly mentality, the uglier use of words and the ugliest hatred towards the opposite gender, should be dealt with a no tolerance stance. This society never came out with banners against child…
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Patriotism, Patriarchy & Our TV
The drama was all about army and cadets and parades and stuff. But it will end with PAF’s victorius stunt. What else is there to show? “Narowal sector me bharboor jawabi karwai!” Hamayun Saeed will play Major Ram’s character. After all he’s our “do takkay ka” Shahrukh Khan. Wish Sahir Lodhi could have been opted…
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She. H! Scented. Unnamed.
When do you stop taking your chances? Well, there are no chances. You try and you exhaust yourself for nothing. She was a blonde. No, not a real blonde. Dyed blonde. Blue lens. Cleft chin. Little mascara. Neatly manicured. Glossed lips. And silken voice. No, he didn’t notice these details until she left. By the…
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CSS – Neither Civil, nor a Service
Jawaharlal Nehru famously mocked the Indian Civil Service as “Neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service”. Lord Samuel wittily lauded the British bureaucracy’s faultless ability to “provide a difficulty to every solution”. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, soon after becoming PM, thought she should make an informed assessment of the civil servants for herself. In May 1980,…
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Unjustifiably Justifiable
I don’t know why people are hating Vawda. He should be awarded Haram-e-Imtiaz for what he did. With just one single dumb act, he summarized the complete political history – and curse – of Pakistan. Boot. On table. The place where pen and paper (or constitution) are supposed to be. But here – in the…