Not sure if anyone exists out here, but in case you do, I think this is fun and kind of mind blowing to think about

happened to realize that 2021 and 2024 only two years of my life I didn’t set foot in Lahore

new years and birthdays make me sad

Tweets I don’t send out

It’s disconcerting to find yourself constantly on the opposite side of the people you were supposed to be ideologically aligned with. It would have made more sense if I felt I had switched teams — become a right winger or a conservative, but I haven’t.

PTI is now the party of LGBTQ rights 🤣

Hugh Grant Alan Rickman Pierce Brosnan

Arabi mard inteha ke tharki hotay hayn

Sometimes I look at my notes with incredulity. There is so much finished work in there, even, and yet I don’t shoot it because maybe there’s some last 1% that I feel I still need to work on. Truly, perfection is the enemy of done

My God! I didn’t know Lallantop had done an interview of Prof Ishtiaq Ahmed. Blew my mind. Saurabh Dwivedi speaking directly with Ishtiaq sb. Bohat sexy

How can you not read that as ‘sext’?

One of the biggest indicators of lack of prejudice is whether you will marry your kid into another community/religion. I have had two Hindu friends express oblique interest in my son for their daughters. Bohat fascinating laga mujh ko.

I follow certain people who are obsessed with decolonization and Palestine or the stolen artefacts at the British museum & they incessantly share the pop culture they partake in, all of which is Brit or American. And they see no irony.

Clean the bathroom, the fridge, do the laundry, fold the laundry, vacuum, swiffer, cook, do grocery, put away grocery, push back the thought of all the drawers & cabinets that need to be organised better. Do jobs that earn you money. And then have spare time leftover for ‘passion projects’. Hah!

I, a rank amateur in Urdu, can discover language issues in published, produced stuff that must have been seen by dozens of professionals. Truly depressing. This is not a humblebrag. Khuda ki qasam dukh hota hai

مجھے ہے حکمِ اذاں لا الہٰ الااللہ strange to not believe but be culturally immersed in narratives you consider problematic. And then your Lit education also allows you to appreciate their artistic merit.

And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me

I see so many smart young people unable to comprehend freedom of speech ideas. For years I’ve been wanting to do a video. Maybe it will help a few

I hate gold. My mother bought me a bracelet a couple of decades ago that I immediately lost because it dropped off of my wrist. She got me another (darned expensive) one, it got stolen. And today I lost a third one. Hate it so much. Never never buying gold again.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught To say the things he truly feels And not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows And did it my way

got up. went down X timeline. some ppl tweet like they MUST say something about every event making national headlines. certain revered academics sound like they pulled their insipid generic takes from an AI, lekin deni zuroor hain to feel relevant

My only commentary on ongoing politics is that I am a Bushra Bibi fan. Seriously. What a badass

I read slowly and with deliberation and yet only retain few of the details after a while. Need to keep going back. Do not understand how people read thick tomes in days & remember every detail.

Ok, I think I’m beginning to understand his anger now, even though I still think khooni inqalaabs never work

I want this hair… and face

I see tweets from rich feudal politicians’ sons on Twitter expressing deep outrage towards the system and I don’t get it. This person wants to torture a govt official and gives graphic details of it & yet he is deeply ingrained in the system himself

Even the most prolific of journalists and the most successful of politicians rarely have an enduring legacy. A reasonably successful artist, otoh, is remembered for much longer

Seeing way too many Palestine posts on here. Barely any Parachinar. Pakistanis love sublimating their outrage in every direction that doesn’t point at themselves

If I didn’t attempt being fair minded and didn’t believe in my principles I would say these haraami youthars deserved the chhittars they got after May 9. Kutton ko sukoon abhi bhee naheen aaya.

Early mornings

Man, I was so thin just a few years back 😭

Can’t believe my father just said Allah Hafiz to me. What’s the world coming to. How has the switch never felt natural to me?

Delightful advert for Rudge Bicycles, from a 1939 issue of the weekly "Riyasat-i Dehli." It explains that when you start riding a Rudge bike, the mile-markers will pass so quickly. You can get one from the Gramophone Company Ltd (!) in Delhi, Bombay, or Bangalore, or any of the big cycle sellers. 🗃️

20 tests to grade. That’s why I prefer being a virtual ustani

Trying to decide my bluesky personality. Should I be zen (all nature pictures & music) or full intellechawal

Mulla No Pyaza

After I’m done with it I get irritated by my own critique, so I try to stay away from pushing it too much on followers. I think Criticism is an important field but it’s also kinda tiresome.

I worry too much about right and wrong. Surefire recipe for never going big on SM.

Hmmm…kutta haraami elon musk. Lekin jack uss se bhee baraa haraamzaada hai. Is it not possible to refuse the offer of a buyout? Kitna paisa chaahiye loagon ko?