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H.
@pseudowitch6
a series of sad identity markers
Lahore
Joined January 2016
- Just watched Heeramandi. Found everything but heermandi in it. I mean either you don’t set your story in 1940’s Lahore, or if you do- you don’t set it in Agra’s landscape, Delhi’s Urdu, Lakhnavi dresses and 1840’s vibe. My not-so-sorry Lahori self can’t really let it go.
- Never in my life time did I ever imagine that a living politician will make the military top brass come to the front and do an uncensored attempt at defending themselves. This has pushed IK into a political league where no one has ever been before.
- Stop making your child's life hell if he/she couldn't be a doctor because Hello, I'm an MBBS doctor from THE King Edward College and i've been jobless since the day i have graduated. And so is more than half of my class. All of us - left with little room to stay in this country.
- This is why you should all be outside your city’s RO office. Wazirabad just snatched back their mandate. Official results declared PTI’s win. The crowd didn’t move till the results were out. Exercise your constitutional right to protect your vote. Guys, go out!
00:00 - Jinnah and Ruttie : love, war and beyond. It was 1918, a young Parsi girl from the elitest of all Mumbai’s elite, turned 18. A grand party was thrown by her rich father in Taj hotel. She thanked every Nobel for coming but ended her gratitude with “…..and I am marrying Jinnah”
- Bureaucracy just gave us a hero : Shoaib Nissoana, ADC finance Sargodha, resisted the khaki pressure even when his office was barged, him threatened. They couldn’t get him to issue a form 47 so asked him to sign the one they generated. He refused. Has been transferred now.
- Am I dreaming? Just returned from polling station after hours of being cut off from the world to such lead. God. Volunteering up as an agent was one of the most emotional social experiences ever. The voter’s rage, the pain and the sense of duty was so pure, so moving…
- Shoaib Malik and Kamral Akmal’s era was such a peaceful one, midway between the match - we’d know for sure that we’re losing so it’s better to switch TVs off. These new guys make us stay till last ball. So unethical.
- This is so fascinating, so brave : two men have put up a fight all night long in one of the NA constituency, NA 85. The candidate Khudadad Kalyar didn’t back down, the RO Shoaib Nissoana didn’t sign the fake result. This is a fight for civilian supremacy playing out in real time.
- Now the game begins. Thank you for being dumb enough to push Salman Akram Raja to the line of victims. He’ll drag the process to courts and god, we love our fighter here. We’re with him and before you’ll translate what his salees grammar is calling you, you’ll be dusted. Watch.
- Jinnah mishandled, Liaqat Ali Khan shot down, Zulfiqar Bhutto Hanged, Murtaza Bhutto encountered, Hayat Sherpao blown in blast, Shahnawaz poisoned, Benazir Bhutto shot down and now ; Imran Khan - each time public gets a leader to rally around, the guns come out. Strange much?
