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lyp iz tup WIP: Translating مشاہداتِ زندان by Hasrat Mohani into English.
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Thought I'd let Twitter know I got published in 2020. It didn't sell a lot of copies but it made a good number of kids happy - and they still ask me when I'm churning out Part 2.
#WritingCommunity
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I love how Lahoris spent the entire week lecturing Karachiites to “don’t vote for PPP you guys are responsible for your own misery” only for Bilawal to lead from a constituency in Lahore 🥴
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People who have been making young girls parade in front of them carrying tea trays, inspecting them keenly for blemishes and ugly patches, judging their height and teeth and complexion and weight, are collectively frothing at the mouth over the idea of a beauty pageant.
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The only thing funnier than the title in translation is that a friend’s dealer sent this to them.
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Tacky af.
Been seeing this new trend of putting random expressions/misras in Urdu on dupattas/jewelry and it's so gimmicky. There's a place that sells dupattas which have منٹو منٹو منٹو printed on them lol.
Also, at least the script/handwriting could have looked nice.
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What's actually bizarre is that Pakistanis flat-out deny any and all connection with the Indus Valley and Ganga-Jamni tehzeeb, thereby giving Hindustan a free pass to lay claim to all things Indus: food, clothing, poetry, architecture.
Arbi bannay kay zom mai paglaye huay hain.
India is named after the river Indus which is entirely in Pakistan.
How is that for bizarre?
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I... may have found the best translation for this yet.
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I think the men in Faisalabad who showed up firing guns to support their wives who were fighting over lawn sales might be the closest to allyship we’ll see.
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Pakistani Twitter is seeing some 1000 or so people desperately join a Whatsapp group for help with resumes and unemployment while some startup bro boasts about how he fired someone who was working two jobs.
What a mess.
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Literally Social Sciences students in KU and IBA 😂
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"Outside of IBA campus, right next to it is KU"
Bro IBA is literally INSIDE KU what even 😂 Yeh gentrification ka kaun sa level hai lmao
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Imagine if Faiz and Iqbal were alive and on twt (Faiz wouldn’t have that blue tick, of course) and were looking at Urdu being called a colonial language used to *oppress* Punjabis.
Urdu say dartay ho? Urdu speaking tou tum bhi ho. Urdu speaking tou hum bhi hain. 🥴
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Can’t believe someone on twt is beefing with Foodpanda and Foodpanda is in the right.
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@TeslaOnDiet
Terminally online gamer dudes tend to be obsessed with anime and often have a very warped sense of what women look like, especially if they're depending on their mothers to find a girl and haven't interacted much with one before.
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I’ve seen dozens of posts questioning why “feminists” haven’t said anything about the judgement but not a single one questioning why the religious scholars haven’t said anything and that is all one needs to know.
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IBA is in Gulistan e Jauhar too, lmao.
Fascinating subtext here, though. The idea that Jauhar is some crime-riddled, “backwards” slum/ghetto sounds like code for “why is this rich people university not in DHA?”
@AribaShahid
Right, I was more focused on the fact that it seems that the timeline for becoming the leading higher educational institution in Pakistan appears remarkably short.
Though Habib has shot itself in the foot by not building dorms and locating the campus in Gulistan-e-Johar.
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Thrilled to announce that my story, Death by Qorma, has made The Bristol Prize shortlist!!!
It will be published in the anthology later this year :)
Really thrilled to announce the 2023 Bristol Short Story Prize shortlist. Many congratulations to the 20 writers selected:
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Honestly the last thing we want is a foreign power trying to “save democracy” in Pakistan rn. None of this international “concern” is remotely a good thing.
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Told a friend I'd give her Dewan e Ghalib - and I did.
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Not only will public confessions like these never lead to an anti-behayayi campaign from our pious religious overlords but this very overt racism against Karachiites will also go unnoticed.
Pro-PPP woke types will passively lend support to racism and then parade as socialists.
PPP leader Nabeel Gabol bragging about picking up, abducting any girl that he likes, insinuating something that I can't even write here.
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Sahir Ludhianwi versus Riskhay walay uncle. Who said it better?
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My great grandmother would often tell how pulao gosht was on the stove the day they fled from Bengal when the mobs came.
She always lamented how they left the pulao gosht still on the stove—still steaming and smelling of home.
While I and many others find biryani to be a very unforgettable dish; an emotion, the state of Bihar and Jharkhand is more known for its Pulao and Gosht. The perfect blend. At every wedding or celebration, this is included.
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Why do they call it an engagement and why not a fellowship of the ring
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Karachi will one day wake up to murdered prospective doctors, engineers, scholars, surgeons, lawyers, and more. I still think about that NED student who was shot for a phone, like so many others.
An entire future generation is being wiped out while the Sindh Government sleeps.
Just saw a 25 26 year old boy crying hysterically over his bike phone and salary being snatched on his way back from work. Loathe the sorry state we karachites are living in. I hate this country with all my heart.
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@JoVaEs89
@MartinKonecny
Remind me if Pakistan was sitting on indigenous graves in order for you to have that idea
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How delightful! Perfectly captures the vibrancy of local women-dominated commercial spaces. Last I visited the dupatta gulley (in Karachi) I was hypnotized by the colors and the sounds, the bubble vendors and the flower sellers, and the safe, safe comfort of women’s presence.
Last but certainly not the least, the last contribution in our digital art competition is by
@mademecrazier
! 🖌️✨
The title of her artwork is "Mein Yahan Hoon / میں یہاں ہوں".
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My hot take on the Junaid Akram (who sucks, no debate on that front) Karachi beach video is that all fun-related discourse is always about either the upper-most or lower-most echelons of society. The middle class can neither afford Emaar nor (with family) go to Sea View.
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Actually had to show up like this in class in between a mayun and a mehendi because I had to collect exam papers.
My students have now seen it all—from hobo homeless hoodie looks to this generations ka ad.
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Ngl discovering how much “entrepreneurs” charge for basic white outsourced tees and how much influencers charge for an unboxing video is depressing.
We were sold lies in the name of “respectable” jobs where one ends up paying obscene taxes and being grossly underpaid.
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Honestly Karachi’s future looks even more bleak than before. Infighting between MQM and TLP to begin with, PPP blocking any progress whatsoever, the state generally not giving a shit. The 2010s are back.
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Honestly, if someone is interested in organising a festival that’s actually about Literature, here are things you can talk about:
Censorship, Large Language Models and if AI is a threat to writing at all, Translations, the supposed death of poetry, the commodification of (1)
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There’s nothing to say—I’ll say what, and how?
And yet I can’t stay silent now.
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A damning realization of taking over all of my mom’s housework since her surgery is how full-time housewives have no time to grieve. Domestic duties take precedence over sorrow, over grief, over pain. You can either cry or make qorma. Or make very salty qorma.
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The problem with saying “history won’t be kind to them” is that nobody cares if history is unkind to them. If they did, former genocidal states wouldn’t be loudly and proudly supporting the latest one today.
History is as history was.
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@Joseph_Fasano_
Rough translation: You thought not of me, not even thoughtlessly/ I thought of nothing else, and lost all my thought.
Couplet by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal King.
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Just realized that my favorite Urdu novel (چاکیواڑا میں وصال by Khalid Akhtar) and one of my favorite Indian novels (In Custody by Anita Desai) have the same premise: a literary protagonist, besotted with a certain Urdu poet/writer of note, crosses paths with the writer/poet.
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@amalieskram
It’s because women put in the work that is required to keep acquaintances/friendships.
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What a tiring and interesting day I’ve had! And to come home to this!
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My mom, who’s been hospitalised and who went into surgery this morning, called to ask if we had all eaten and if the house was okay.
What does one even do without mothers. 😅 The house hasn’t felt this empty ever.
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I’m curious: do Pakistanis who fetishize being Arab and Turks think they can simultaneously claim Indic roots while vilifying them?
Because Mughal history and anything remotely Indic has, post 70s, been exclusively seen as Indian. We’ve given it all up.
not but i’m genuinely annoyed. now India has claimed Heeramandi as an Indian thing? Kal ko Lahore Fort bhi India mein hoga? Waisay Mughal History erase karni hai aur heeramandi own karli hai? Aisi historical rewriting ke matlab wah
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Oh please. People deemed attractive by the society have an easier time getting jobs, are treated generally better, have much greater success in romantic pursuits, don't have to spend a fortune on cosmetic treatments and products, etc.
All of which is a privilege.
whoever said being ‘pretty’ was a privilege… can we stop lying?
it’s the most dehumanizing and abhorrent thing to deal with.
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Look who’s on here!
...and here's more on the other 10 wonderful writers on this year's BSSP shortlist. Winner announced and anthology published a week tomorrow!
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I’ll just pretend this is my author photo and that I am an author.
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@fambanglani
Double migration often gets overlooked when the partition is mentioned. Grew up listening to stories of persecution in 47 and 71, and still have to contend with casual racism from a certain ethnicity that tells us we don't "belong" in this province/are "colonizers."
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One of the reasons Hera Pheri is a masterpiece is because of how singularly unique it is for audiences who speak Hindi and Urdu. No matter how well subtitled non-suncontinent audiences will never know why tutul putul and talees laat made us laugh.
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While this makes complete sense, it forgets that Pakistan's problem isn't just less women in the workforce. It's less people.
How many do you think - such as the mob which gathered to lynch a Chinese engineer - are skilled labor?
A huge chunk of our people are doing nothing. /1
WE NEED MORE WOMEN IN OUR WORKFORCE !!! It's the only way forward that can support our trembling GDP per capita. Countries in the region have moved to an average household of 4 while we stand at 7. You need to put women to work. You cannot feed a family of 7 with only one earning
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“Entrepreneurs” naming food today: matka kulfi, matka fries, matka chapati, matka paani
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and homies: Kofta e Mualla e Ajami, Shab Degh, Nargisi Koftay, Galawati Kabab, Murgh Musallam 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
In his book on Lucknow's cuisine, Mirza Jaafar Husain writes about a unique family recipe for a very large type of kebab, called 'Kofta-e Mualla-e Ajami'.
It was a favourite of his grandfather, Hakim Shafa Uddaulah (physician to Wajid Ali Shah).
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Province of Karachi hmmmm
Noor Jehan is us - she represents the ppl of this country, province, of Karachi. A migrant, caged, abused, exploited and starved. The same institutions responsible for her deterioration have been responsible for the decay of our once proud city, province and people.
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There’s a HEXALINGUAL oratory competition happening this week and I’m judging the most basic of them.
But hey, at least I get to witness history!
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Tiring day, lots of longhand during speeches, probably sleep-deprived—but at least my outfit turned out exactly as I wanted it to.
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“His family cannot afford medicine or food. Ms Harila and many of the climbers flew over us and the family in helicopters. What a symbolic image. The helicopter to fly out costs up to $12,000 per person."
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I love this photo my friend took. Especially because of how green it is.
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Having been to the PAF Academy in Risalpur many times I’ll just say that bollywood misses what Pakistani pilots look like by several and I mean several, miles.
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Most of the world’s art wouldn’t exist if men hadn’t fallen in love.
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Normal books on snakes: if this snake bites you, you die
Dude from Lucknow: Iskay kaatnay say neend ghalib hojati hai, khwab e adm naseeb hojata hai 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
Today’s archival distraction is an 1878 Lucknavi guide to snakes, their bites, and how to cure them, published by the Naval Kishore press. Helpfully illustrated with images of each of the snakes described 🐍!
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Noor Jehan's case is such an unsurprisingly grievous affair.
Her diseased, tortured, pained and dying form is an apt metaphor for Karachi at large.
The Mighty have fallen.
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KU looks like everything from a village to Vice City.
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Also that "ishq" pair is giving major Live Love Laugh energy, idk
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Has anyone ever gone to France and yelled NAARA E SUI?
And has it worked?
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Two of my grandmother's brothers were butchered, along with most other men in the town.
In the city of Paksey, Bengalis killed all Bihari males & raped many women, among them was my uncle. Another aunt saw her whole family killed while she pretended to be dead, & her infant brother boiled alive. The genocide committed by Bengalis against Biharis has been forgotten.
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I’ve been to the Fatima Jinnah School on two occasions: once to judge an inter-class dramatics competition (in which a Chacha Chakkan rendition was particularly delightful) and once to judge oratory.
Roy and his team are doing such good work there—and they keep aiming higher!
This isn't an elite private school,It’s Fatima Jinnah government school adopted by
@ZindagiTrust
Here V also run a world-class music program in professionally designed studios. Young girls play everything from Beethoven to Eastern classical & there is no fee.V r driving change
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I got cancelled on Twitter in Ramzan for saying “businesses” using Literature/literati for gimmicks are trash and I am prepared to be cancelled again.
Everything about folks who see poets and poetry as gimmicks to sell pretence to a philistine customer base pisses me off.
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This may be ab unpopular take but many Muslims, especially in countries where human rights are a joke, don’t seem to realize that they are in many ways responsible for how quickly regular people believe the narrative “Muslims bad.” It is directly affecting Palestinians.
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Went from not having ears pierced to favorite dangly peacock earrings in about a year. Evolution is real frfr
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So what was
@TheSalamAward
? It was the first-of-is-kind spec fic residential workshop carried out at LUMS. Together, we read and critiqued some 70k words under the guidance of SFF instructors who flew in from the US, visited cultural sites, and fostered bonds for a lifetime.
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Well, how fitting.
Also my room smells like heaven rn.
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Also I’m never getting over how intelligent people on Twitter are (hint: they aren’t).
This post isn’t about rejection (which yes it sucks for both genders and yes beauty pageants are regressive and need to be a thing of the past). Look up irony in a dictionary or something.
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There are very few photos of myself where I don’t immediately look like a champoo middle-schooler—me reading the Yaari Anthology earlier today while waiting on some suspiciously delayed pizza is one of them.
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They just opened a dinosaur themed park in Karachi, with life-sized animatronic models, which I think is lovely because a large number of visitors probably don’t even believe evolution is real. 😂
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It’s insane people automatically assume a niqabi girl can’t be posh. She’s literally niqab posh.
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Never knew how accurate this hastily put-together (and borrowed) dress was for a Lady Macbeth role I played back in 2014.
Ellen Terry’s famous Lady Macbeth “beetle wing” dress was designed for her by Alice Comyns Carr & was first worn on stage in Dec 1888. Meant to invoke fear, the addition of 1000 beetle wing cases created the effect of scales. Recently restored.
#ShakespeareSunday
#FolkloreSunday
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Nothing cringier than Pakistanis and Indians—people who had to snatch independence from the British—flex how good at speaking English they are compared to the other.
What part of tum sala ghulam loug do you guys exactly not understand?
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@itsokaybis
Then they get angry when women actually put into words what the “family emergency” is—tab ghar ki baat ghar rakhnay ka parchaar kartay hain.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but the container exodus is likely not targeting those actually involved in street crime and those who go around publicly brandishing weapons you’ve only seen in CounterStrike.
You’re cheering on the expulsion of helpless wage-workers. Fie on you.
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@its_daqueen
Those men only attract other men which... sounds counterproductive but what would I know, I'm not a Greek alphabet.
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Losing a grandparent is like losing a child. Your inner child—your memory of childhood. Nothing kills that memory quite like the death of a grandparent.
Lost my grandmother yesterday. Lost myself.
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Brazilian and Colombian citizens are also reportedly being denied permission to leave.
Amidst all this talk about “hostages.”
Irish citizens not included in list of foreign nationals allowed to leave Gaza, says DFA
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Lahore fam: here’s a guy who’s probably about to lose his job because he got doxxed trying to make ends meet. His number is pretty public—he’s offering grocery delivery services some of you might use.
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Shamelessly sharing my favourite self-translated couplets.
Really should get back to doing more of these.
On the International Day of Translation sharing our most widely shared translated verse on social media.
Do you have a favourite translated verse or piece of writing?
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I felt this in my bones. The worst part isn’t things not working out. It’s not knowing what else you could have done differently. Failing despite giving something (or someone) your best is just the most self-defeating feeling there is.
You’re just not God’s favourite.
Some of us are no longer good at anything. A failure in academics, in personal life, life in general. We keep trying, but things don’t work out, and so We just stare at the walls built around us, caving in, waiting for the breaking point to arrive.
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