@FrontusforNY @ShahanaFromBK Happened to catch her in passing in Williamsburg yesterday. Didn't know what was going on but now I do and glad to have seen her
@sharghzadeh Dude i get this obsession with the east/west dichotomy and seeing everything through that one lens but you make all these sweeping generalizations and in one innocent tweet just completely disregard SO many gut wrenching crimes that take place in our countries
@HammadHRind I have observed a few in Siraiki also. For example the word for Thursday is خمیس and the word for Onion is بصل , which are both the same in Arabic
یہاں بلوچی، سندھی، پشتو میں شاندار ادب پیدا ہو رہا ہے، بلوچی سے تھوڑا بہت میں واقف ہوں تو زیادہ اعتماد سے کہ سکتا ہوں، دیگر زبانوں میں بھی ہو رہا ہو گا، مگر بین الاقوامی فورمز پہ جب بھی بات ہو گی تو گھوم پھر کر تقسیم ہند اور مسلم اشرافیہ کے تکلیف وغیرہ کی ہی گی، آخر ایسا کیوں ہے؟
@AliDayan@NidaKirmani Aiddey tussi linguist. So when non native speakers of english pronounce english words with an accent, does it seize to be english, period?
Sakhtian tey talkhian dunya vich pehley hi buht ney, hor na vadhao.
So much that even those people find it convenient to make lahore, rather than their own cities, the focus and subject of their nostalgia whenever they miss home and so now it seems like lahore is the only worthwhile city to be in all of punjab
Lahore is over-romanticized and overrepresented in pakistani diaspora's discourse on our culture, heritage and history. This has left little space for narratives centered around experiences of people from other cities
Exactly two years ago in college I struggled with an art history course on avant-garde art in new york. Today at a doctor's clinic I correctly identified two mark rothko color field replicas. I felt so accomplished and I think the $/effort was worth the snobbery/pretention.
The memory of thousands unnamed dead will be reduced to just a statistic in history books but the image of an optimistic afghan who allowed himself to be saved by the gracious hand of uncle sam and easily assimilated into the many virtues (eg costco) of his new home will live on
Having fallen flat on its face in yet another war america is finally ready to bring out the most effective canon in its arsenal, hollywood, to absolve itself in popular memory.
Pakistani farmers, on average, pay a lot more than their Indian counterparts for Fertilizer. Ever wonder why?
The answer has to do with WHO supplies fertilizer in the two countries. While India has a cooperative system, one of Pakistan’s largest fertilizer suppliers is....