From Dharmatma to Padmaavat, everything that is wrong with Bollywood’s depiction of Afghans

It is no secret that Afghans love Bollywood films, from the streets of Kabul to the Afghan diaspora households in California, every kid knows of Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham and dances to Dilbar Dilbar. Despite having such huge and devoted Afghan fanbase, Bollywood directors have never done justice to the portrayal of Afghans in their…

Confusion Confessed

And when that happens your skin becomes too tight on you. You feel like escaping it like a drug addict might. your level of toleration, zero. You can watch your self getting crazier by the minute but you can not stop it. You can restore the sanity by doing something drastic to confuse and stop…

The Things That I Remember

I haven’t written a blog in a long long time because I promised myself I won’t be pouring my heart out for a bunch of strangers to read. Well I clearly lied to myself, I could not simply stop writing! To be honest I didn’t have time to post anything either and  only my heart…

Object of Desire & Disdain

Out of all the good things that have ever happened to me, you were the best & out of all the bad things I have thrown out of my life, you were the worst.

100 Happy Days – Day 1

Snapped this today at 5pm outside Guys Hospital today whilst waiting for my favourite Medics to come out of their lecture. I really did wish I had my camera when I looked up but oh well iPhone is not that bad either. There certainly wasn’t a better day than today to start my 100 Happy…

Songs that make me nostalgic

I might not be madly and sadly in love with Music that my heart pounds out of my chest when I hear a good tune and my hips automatically starts shaking but yes there are some tunes that make me feel nostalgic and bring back some sweet sour memories! Here is a blog dedicated to…

Down The Memory Lane

Carrying the baggage of memories can be very hard sometimes, you may stop to take a break forgetting about it but as soon as you are reminded of it again, you have to pick it up and continue walking. Yes memories do get daunting at times but I would never want to let them go…

Truth VS Perception

“There is no truth. Only Perception.” -Gaustav Flaubert In the battle of truth vs perception, the winner for me is perception, not because I don’t believe in truth but because perception is more important to me as a person. Every now and then on a sunday evening certain people knock our house door and invite…