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The New Normal

More than four months have passed since I was forced to take a break from my ‘normal’ life due to the outbreak of the corona virus. What was my normal life? A question that may pop in your head when you read the first line of this text. Well, normal for me is waking up […]

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Other Family

27th February 2020 was the day my friends and I were having conversations over how Finding Nemo is a classical animated movie. We ended up roasting our one friend who had not yet watched Finding Nemo. At 1:45pm, we all got a notification from IBA saying that for four days all educational institutions were being […]

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#Quarantineandill

I have experienced anxiety and insomnia since classes ended. I have found ways to deal with it but initially I could not sleep at night and when I did, I had the weirdest dreams. Demons, monsters, parents finding my profile on a dating app-you name it. All kinds of horrible scenarios and dreams seemed to be making it into my brain except bloody sleep.

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My Two Cents

It feels like the entire world has come to a halt; the busiest towns are now completely empty, for probably the first time ever circumambulation around Ka’abah has been halted, and all the big events around the world are being cancelled.

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COVID: A Toothless Leviathan

Like many in lockdown around the world, I too undertook some new habits and developed new interests. I delved headfirst into therapeutic coloring, an endeavor we indulged in as a family. My sister pulled out her Japanese adult coloring book and a 36-coloring-markers set on the first day of lockdown, and let’s just say we’re still not tired.

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My Life After COVID-19 Went Viral

Almost every night, my cousins, nieces and nephew in Canada and Scotland, and I do a conference call and we talk about all sorts of things: food, the Pakistani dramas we have been watching, my Scottish nieces’ and nephew’s new-found craze for the Turkish drama series Diriliş: Ertuğrul and all the new Turkish words they have picked up. We reminisce the trip we all took to Turkey around this time last year…

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Unforeseen Turn of Events

It’s funny how you start to miss the things in life you thought you could live without. I miss my friends, I miss hugs. I don’t remember the last time I hugged my friends or the last time I ordered a pizza. I miss being able to order pizza, something I used to do at least once in a week or two.

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Zafarnama

We wake from our slumber around late noon, when the sun is at its highest. Our honorable mother has taken to calling us “Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah”, for this unworthy monarch would wake up at a similar time too, while his kingdom crumbled around him.

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