Friday 3 September 2010

With a pinch of salt!

Yesterday, Xeb talked about embedded patriotism and how her parents decided to stay back in Pakistan, when all around them people were flocking to Canada. This made me think back to the beginning of this decade when my parents didn't take the plunge to shift over either. I wished the reason behind it was patriotism too.

It was not. It was indecisiveness, and ego fusses over petty issues. They still haven't decided.



Here's a toast to 25 years of non-stop bickerings, moodswings, constant shouting, ego maniac-ism, control freakishness and lack of trust. I wish I could have brought you a cake and pretty cards and gifts for your Silver Jubilee Anniversary this October. But you guys just make it too hard for me to dine with you.


Yeah, thats why I have been eating alone for the past 10 months. I didn't want to be impolite and tell you on your face that eating with you guys, or even being in the same room, is a torturous experience.

8 comments:

  1. At this point, I'm indifferent. I was just bored and couldnt think of a topic to do a post about. Hence, this!

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  2. I have nothing to write on so Im thinking of experimenting with fiction. For it to be natural, there will be alot maa bhen. And already people are complaining that they cant digest the f-word. Alot of maa bhen might just put off readers. Lets see..

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  3. its okay to put maa behen where its needed to depict the true characterisation. dont over-do it. and people who pretend to be too goody-goody can go read enid blyton. they arent going to be forced on gun point to read your fiction. dont worry about them. they are still going to read every word.

    What kind of plot do u have in mind. maybe i can help develop some characters?

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  4. I have a lot in mind, but I need help in figuring out how to pen it down properly. I need it to be as localized as possible, and characters built around us, in real life. A proper launda-fiction perhaps. A very karachite sort. Maybe, four guys' encounter with a policewala at seaview while smoking a joint. Or, 2 MQM workers' discussion over tea. Know what I mean?

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  5. Why don't you write each character separately first. describe it, develop it, narrate the circumstances it is in....this way u'll get more acqainted with them. and then maybe on a later stage, you can weave them together in a single plot. What say?

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  6. You think all of this would be worth it for just a piece of fiction almost the size of a blog post? It would just have two characters. Ok, how about you help me describe one of the characters. I mean, just put down on paper what you feel and maybe we can merge our separate description. A 29 year old MQM worker, lives at Azizabad, next to Dastagir Girls college. He is the man of the house, with 4 sisters, and one divorced. He hates everybody, the entire world, except Altaf bhai. He can barely open his mouth because of a decade of gutka-love:P
    And all this makes me realise, fictions not as easy as I pictured it.

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  7. And yeah, add me on messenger or something, so I can stop dirtying your comment wall..

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