credit for the picture above - Banksy

nothing rings truer today than the proverb “AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM“ 

a bloody friggin elephant in the room….

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a letter to Ardeshir Cowasjee…

Dated: September 17, 2007

Dear Sir, 

I would love to have started the email by saying I sift through the papers searching for your editorial, but alas the times are of electronic communication, and I surrender. Not only do I sift through electronic pages of DAWN for your words, I have also now turned to communicating with you on email. The latter of course is because I find no postal address under your writings. My mother, who is a lover of words, laments over this loss of ink blots on paper and fingers alike – yet she too composes her books, writings, poetry and other scribbles on her desktop computer, so that she can fit in as many words a day as she can to soothe many of her pains. 

I feel a sycophantic sentence forming and I guess I’ll let it. I’m a great admirer of your writings and I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times plus more. But I find inspiration in your writings. I used to write when I used to get angry about anything. Now I’m usually occupied with being angry with my people and my nation. Your editorial today was a spot on analysis of all that is a blatant mockery of political principles, civil rights, life and existence in Pakistan that is just living but not breathing. 

I was always politically aware and tried many times to spark up a debate with people at school and college. No one wanted to talk, or had enough ammo to fire up the conversation with. The rest just thought I was naïve, which was something I had heard from many since I was a little child. Now I’m not that much older or wiser but having entered the first-quarter of a century in my life cycle I feel entitled to abuse the ‘-century’ addition to my age. I work at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan – and I feel more desperate than ever. Knowing and seeing and reading all that is wrong and all that is being let to happen is so much more frustrating.  

I wish more and more people could get moved by words – so that I could believe that words had the power to do so not very long ago and that it could happen again; so I could believe that mere poetry could rouse sleeping souls and honest slogans could jar even the most oblivious ones. I wish I could lead a rebellion but all I can do is talk and paint and gesture wildly.   

A relatively new but faithful Reader, 

Saira ******

So the badly written but immensely interesting farce continues. The little pigs continue their game of dodging the enemy or trying a hand at a ‘deal’ with each other or getting kicked back into exile. And since we call ourselves a pig-free nation I think all the pigs should follow suit and just leave. In this case I think the three little pigs (nawaz sharif, benazir, musharraf) and the wolf (being a general enemy of all things sane and normal) should settle in with the treacherous king pig altaf in London and stay there. Since Britain seems to be keen on giving refuge to idiotic, retarded and sometimes vicious politicians I think they wouldn’t mind taking in some more. The more the merrier for them I say!

STAR WARS PAKISTAN…

Return of the Jedi?

W E ’ R E    K I C K I N G    A S S

sometimes i really really reaaallly dont know if George W Bush is real or a very long reigning joke played on the world.

Here, my lovelies, you’ll find the latest Bushism:

Bush on Iraq: ‘We’re kicking ass’

please don’t forget to read the comments below. some of them are pretty hilarious and depressing at the same time.

TRANSFORMERS 

I loved the movie and would kill to own this baby! the balance, the transformation both ways and the stable walk are fun but awesome physics at work.

most of the stuff available is really kiddish and im sure i cant get my hands on one of these…so..

i’ll just sit and admire this great ‘toy’ in the video above.

Karachi Bridge is falling down…

…and so is Islamabad

ever heard the teeny bopper song which goes something like “you gotta be cruel to be kind“.

i think the collapsed bridge in Karachi is just another is a series of acts that shows how the powerful extend the love to the people.

its absolutely sickening how all the politicans, engineers, consultants and the rest of the riff-raff are pointing fingers at each other.

while the three little pigs – musharraf, nawaz sharif and benazir bhutto -  build their little thrones and forts, and argue over who gets to be the naked duke of Pakistan, the army loses about 300 men who apparently went to mend the Taliban dumpties who fell of the wall.

sad sad sad. i never did like  nursery rhymes.

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May 12 report released by HRCP titled ‘”Carnage in Karachi – A city under Siege” and an editorial by Cowasjee. This report will soon be available on the HRCP website.

My fellow citizens never fail to give me fire and fuel to spit out. For everyone who knows me, I have very strong opinions, views and ambitions. And I have always been very fiery about defending Pakistan – in every way. I returned yesterday from Germany, where I represented Pakistan at a political philosophy training workshop ‘Chances and Challenges of Liberalism’. I was loud and outspoken for the rights of Pakistanis and the needs and requirements of this country. Being amongst 23 different nationalities I felt prouder and extremely patriotic, for the need of a better word. Also, considering current news (or any news), I had much to talk about.

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Through countless misconducts, harassments, cheats, pinchers, liars, corrupt people, I have found that my love for the soil has remained fervent, whereas my love for the people continues to diminish. I seem to find more and more events that slap me in the face and say ‘ the cause is right, the people might not be’. 

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I landed yesterday on the crack of dawn at the Karachi airport.

i’m pissed off…at the world, the people and the foolish citizens of Pakistan. foolish.

where is it all heading?what is our future?what is the use of making pirs out fake-mullahs of the blood-mosque? why drag religion, politics, personal lives and media into a hot pot and sprinkle it with blood?why blame everyone that comes in sight?why make false claims?

impending civil war doesn’t sound so farsighted anymore. i can’t believe how even after so many years of him being blown up, ‘General’ Zia still continues to destroy everything in this country. hateful man – hateful legacy.

for me denouncing the mullahs doesn’t put my religious beliefs on a pedestal for everyone to judge.

high-strung tripping

‘LAHOL VILLA‘ – my smart family’s term contribution to the Lal Masjid Fiasco!

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Like my mamu aptly put it “Snow white has just appeared wearing a burka and beard. The dwarves are in Adiala jail.”  

i was in the brazilian embassy at the time of the first attack. not cocooned in the diplomatic enclave like the american embassy and such, my embassy is very conveniently placed on attaturk avenue – a few miles down and left from lal masjid. as one woman came running in and announced ‘the lal masjid has been attacked by the government’ the most that my semi-corpulent vice-chancellor could manage to say was really, do we need to leave? to which they both did some mental calculation in their wise little big heads and decided it really wasn’t worth moving their behinds at all!  

now if i had been in the royal court of the grand USA embassy maybe the story mightve been different! 

p.s. im happy the damn ‘zanani-maulvi‘ got caught the way he did..we pakistanis find a moment of humor in the wierdest of things.

prettytrippy

Daily Times had this picture today in the news photos of an eunuch bathing in the canal. i loved the way they had titled it – almost lovingly- ‘nymph’. i found it extremely…exuberant!

Of the many arguments i’ve had with many people over maaany topics, the averse reactions to eunuchs distrub me the most. Stuck in a vicious cycle with barely any means of getting out, the way they manage to live should hardly be questioned.

Infact, those who give away their ‘kharaab’ children should be brought out and shamed.

i don’t expect you to agree with me.

tripping saira

 

So i have just convinced the ‘upper tier’ at work of the amazing things Blogs can do…i told them about its superpowers and how we can take over the world..aaaa!

ok on a much calmer note i will be launching a blog for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan titled the HRCPBlog right her at wordpress! Hope it works out!

Tripping-in-the-crazy-heat saira