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Of Books and Basant in 2026
Anything dirty sells, they said. Write about the trapped housewife with the vicious mother-in-law, the dirt-poor vegetable seller with the drunkard potbellied husband and the female child with dirt-ringed curls swatting flies out of her eyes as she smears small hands on shiny car windows. Write about South Asian women ‘as they really are’ and… →
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Books Will Never Judge Your Cover…
I trail my fingers down the leather clad spine, ridged and looped with gold thread. The pages are a buttery yellow, smoothed and soft. There’s a clinging delicate scent, of old ink and new desires. The tale remains the same and yet, it makes some laugh, and some it makes sigh. Ah, old friend. We →
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Ghetto Harry Potter Meets Gay Mr. Darcy
I’ve always admired writers who can dabble in fiction. I myself, although not a writer yet, have never approached the imaginary world, at least not on paper. More than fiction, however, I’m curious about fan fiction. Taking up another’s original idea, concept and theme and adding your own version it. So Harry Potter could be →
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8 Things You’ll Be Shocked To Know (About Me)
The following kernels of information might be disturbing, might be surprising, might be revealing. They might make you clap your hands in laughter, or rub them together as you conspire against me…nevertheless, these are the things about me nobody knows: 1. I CAN RAP. Yes, to look at me you wouldn’t think this was true for →
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The Anti-Me, Anti-She
If I were my exact opposite…this should be fun: 1. From girly girl to tomboy. I’d be the girl sporting leather jackets, metal studs, mad pink eyebrows and pierced everything. I’d be rough around the edges, street. A pink lip mark crusted cigarette would have a place of honour between my lips, along with bad →
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When Elephants Flew, And Candlesticks Sang
There’s a song stuck in my head stuck in my head stuck in my head. Colours of the Wind – Pocahontas OST. Anyone remember Pocahontas? I felt so nostalgic thinking about the long forgotten song today that I decided to watch the movie again, out of sheer memory. I have to admit, I found it →
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“It’s just hard,” Harry said finally, in a low voice, “to realize he won’t write me again.”
J K Rowling, are you reading? Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I’ve been in love with Harry since I was 9 years old. I was mad when I found out that he and Ginny were meant to be. Now I’ve accepted it of course, as a temporary solution (fangirls have to quit →
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How To… Survive The Aftermath Of A Horror Film/Book, Like A Pro
Lullaby, by Diane Guest. What can I say? The book had me shivering and jumping around at every tiny sound like a squirrel with its tail on fire. I could not put it down, and at the same time I couldn’t read it through either. Few books have scared me, but this one came out →
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I Left My Heart In Readings
Yesterday, I went on an adventure. A real life, winding-corridors adventure, with new opportunity at every turn, flavoured with the paper thin smell of yellow books. Adventure, warm and familiar. Readings in Lahore, is one of the only bookstores where books are personified, alive. I don’t get to visit that often, but when I do, I go crazy with →
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Twilight, Or The Idiot’s Guide To Flirting With McSparkles and McHairy
Write a summary of the book you’ve always wanted to write for the back cover of its dust jacket. About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was someone’s weird sparkly idea of a vampire (dude SPARKLES…Dracula would stake himself). Second, there was a part of him – that thirsted for my blood..umm obviously because he’s →
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I Am, My Sister’s Keeper
Jodi Picoult’s novel, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ starts off with the chapters being divided into different events seen by different characters. It starts with Anna Fitzgerald waiting to see a lawyer who has just recently, sued God, and won. Picoult brings a larger than life view to Campbell Alexander, the lawyer, and then places him as →
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Nayab Malik 