I completed my degree in International Relations in early 1999 and soon after I joined a local school as an English and Math teacher. I taught there for half a term only, but that still remains my best experience at a work place. In the beginning I felt out of place since a friend of [...]
In the year 1980, we lived somewhere in Dhock Khabba off Murree Road in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. That’s where I went to my first school but that was for a very short while. As far as I can remember, I studied there for hardly a couple of months and it was at that point of time [...]
On his sixth birthday, I gave my son a very beautiful book about trees. It was stuffed with beautiful pictures of pleasant colors about trees and other plants. Very few words were included with each picture giving only the name of the tree or the plant. The book was green all over that its cover [...]
The oldest object in my home is my grandmother’s wedding dress. My grandmother gave it to my mother before her wedding, and told her to pass it along to her daughter. It was such a gorgeous dress, with dozens of shining diamonds-like stones that sparkled like the stars in a moonlit night. It was too [...]