For great justice

Twenty years ago, give or take a few days, one of the original memes spread across college computers. It was everywhere for a while, partly it was novelty as there were not so many other memes competing with it. Strange to think this was before even 9/11. In honour of the days when a meme […]

TV time

The GF had a late call tonight, so I had the ipad and watched a bit of I will destroy you. I think I am unused to watching anything on television, as I found myself looking at it rather than sinking into it, though I did start enjoying it partway through the second. Yet remained […]

Founding fathers

The other founding father of the nation had his folk artistic treatment. First there was Jinnah’s birthday cake in December, and now there is this rather splendid sculpture of Iqbal in a Lahore public park. The first still makes me laugh, but the second I rather like, and thought it was rather lovely that it […]

Voice

I had occasion to listen to a recording of myself leading a meeting on Zoom, and was quite shocked at my voice and speaking style. For one, in my own ears my voice is quite harsh and I must constantly try to moderate it and file down its edges, but in the recording it seemed […]

A nickname

I had an early jolt this morning when I woke up to a conversation between my siblings wondering what a particular word referred to. This was a nickname given to me by our grandfather who died nearly 30 years ago; no one else uses it other than one of his children, very occasionally. It was […]