If you are not worried about your financial future, or how your basic living expenses will be paid for for next 12 weeks, I want to congratulate you for being frugal in times of abundance. Also, you are privileged, and […]
Internet usage is off the charts since we all started staying in; ask any blogger and s/he would concur. My own blog numbers are 160% this month compared to last month. Having established the importance of online and its movers/shakers, […]
Maids, cooks, drivers and/or cleaning staff are a rather common fixture in most Pakistani households. These men and women come from underprivileged households, with little to no access to either healthcare or education. With Corona causing all kinds of anxieties, […]
As governments around the world enforce some version of lockdown in their respective countries, most of us are staying in and exercising social distancing. Many of us are using this unforeseen downtime to develop skills, realise dreams, catch up on […]
I have been working from home for almost 2 years, but this Corona home office situation threw me off the routine wagon. It had been a Sunday every day, for first 7 days of social distancing. I slept after sunrise, […]
Navroz Mubarak folk(ses). Today marks a new year for Ismailis. Usually, this day comes with a whole lot of bells and whistles. Most of us buy or make new clothes for the day. Most families prepare a feast. People living […]
Almost everyone around me has decided to stay at home (I am so proud of you!). Most companies have embraced home office setups, and many people are exercising common courtesy and keeping social interactions to an absolute minimum. In times […]
How do you know when a sneeze should be taken seriously? When it is nothing but allergy? When to call for help and when to calm yourself down? When it it…Corona (virus)? From what I have read so far from […]
There is doomsday panic around Germany right now, instigated by Corona virus and morbid media updates, and most visible via empty supermarket shelves, racist abuse on U-bahn and kita closures driving parents just a tad bit crazy. We don’t know […]
This International Women’s Day, Shoaib Mansoor and Mahirah Khan released a Reem Rice sponsored video, titled Dua-e-Reem and it has taken the nation by storm. Mansoor’s cinematography and art direction are incredible, and the poetry and message of Dua-e-Reem is […]