When people ask me where I’m from, I have a hard time answering. I hear people around me passionately defending their hometowns during never-ending Islamabad vs Lahore vs Karachi debates, and I can’t really participate because I’m not from any of those cities. I never lived in Pakistan prior to LUMS; I grew up in … Continue reading
Daytime dreamers, afro-ed hippies, frolicking flower-children, fearless and brazen mountain-climbers, environmentally-conscious tree-huggers, you name it, LUMS has it. Continue reading
Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone. It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life. It’s loss. It’s change. And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is … Continue reading
I would say that I haven’t had time to blog recently but in all honesty, I’ve had all the time in the world. I just haven’t had the will to blog. There is just so much crazy stuff happening recently that it really made me wonder why we bother with anything at all. Let’s start … Continue reading
It hasn’t been an easy week. When I was home, I had looked forward to coming back to LUMS, I had thought it would make me feel much better. I am not sure if that’s the case. There are many more people here in front of whom I have to put on a brave face. … Continue reading
As published in the first issue of ‘Smudge- The Social Nudge’ Today, I stepped out wearing a men’s pinstripe dress shirt tucked into high-waisted ankle trousers, underneath which fierce purple gladiators stood their ground. A pair of oversized shades reminiscent of the 70s and a canvas Louis Vuitton tote acted as loyal companions while a … Continue reading
I had previously thought that the only way I could receive a Harvard education was by getting accepted at the mother of all educational institutions. But I stand corrected.
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So I have a friend who has suddenly become infused with a lot of patriotic zeal and wants to “do something” for Pakistan. Now I am not saying that’s a bad thing but I just can’t help being sceptical about it. Scepticism (regarding Pakistan, the nature of its gov’t, the way its been carried out) … Continue reading
I had a very interesting class today. The course is called Foundations of Liberal Arts and its a philosophy course in the sense that we’ll be studying various renowned philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, al-Ghazali and Descartes to name a few) in order to learn and analyse what makes up “the true, the good and the … Continue reading
Throughout the night, I’ve been hearing gunshots at arbitrary intervals. At first I thought there was something wrong with my ears, then I thoughht maybe I was just imagining it out of paranoia because of all the latest emails from the VC warning the student body to avoid going off campus because of the threat … Continue reading
