Went with a friend to her place. She now lives in the upstairs portion of her grandmother’s house in belated acknowledgement of adulthood whilst an unmarried woman. The joys of being 40. Had tea with her and another friend in this interesting new environment, however conversation was dominated by the punctures on the second friend’s car’s tyres, so not the most compelling.
Met someone who has started a boarding school for the poor with the idea that it would groom boys in the same way as military academies or public schools. It is certainly an old-fashioned idea, explicitly stated, that taking children away from the bad influence of their parents will enable them to prosper. Uncomfortably, there might be a kernel of realism here, but the boys may well come out of it with all the soft skills they need in Pakistan’s class/caste ridden society, but still without the connections to actually prosper.