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3 May 2012, 6:12 pm
samishah
My TEDx Margallah talk is finally online. Audio quality is terrible, which I can’t really help. Posting the entire transcript underneath if you are particularly dedicated. /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- TRANSCRIPT On October 18th 2007, I saw a man’s lungs burning. I was a News Producer at the time, working for a local channel and had been [...]... Read More
10 November 2011, 7:55 am
samishah
I miss heartbreak most of all. Those grim moments after rejection, when it feels like no one in the world knows pain like you do and the only salve is singing along to Morrissey and smoking too many cigarettes. Dressing in black, for extra emphasis so that the outward appearance matches the inward despair, always [...]... Read More
15 June 2011, 10:23 am
samishah
I wrote this for a local newspaper but they chose not to run it. Don’t blame them given that I knew it was a bit of a long shot and their decision to drop it is more to do with my own safety than any concern they might have for themselves. Still, I spent too [...]... Read More
1 March 2011, 11:18 am
samishah
8:00 AM – Wake up in the morning feelin’ like Richard Dawkins. 8:02 AM – Stumble over prone, sleeping bodies of Hindu, Jew and Ahmedi orgy-mates. 8:04 AM – Brush my teeth with…Close-up. Even us Liberal Fascists worry about gingivitis. 8:15 AM – Masturbate in shower. 8:16 AM – Masturbate while drying off. 8:30 AM [...]... Read More
16 January 2011, 8:07 pm
samishah
Wrote this for an Indian think tank that wanted an article on “a best case-worst case scenario for Pakistan from now on; is time running out or can Pakistan turn itself around, quickly?” I don’t think they got what they wanted out of this piece since they never published it. However, I still like it. [...]... Read More
9 January 2011, 9:51 pm
samishah
I normally don’t respond to the death threats and hate mail I get with regards to my weekly Tribune column (which is actually a great deal less than the amount of people who have complimentary things to say, but my insecurities and self-loathing tend to focus on the one guy who heckles instead of the [...]... Read More
19 November 2010, 7:12 pm
samishah
Fatherhood has changed me, in that it has made me get over myself. My entire life I’ve been a narcissist. Every conversation I have been a part of, in my head I’m thinking “talk about me! Why aren’t you talking about me!?” That has changed now; my universe has a new center. Now I just [...]... Read More
14 November 2010, 7:21 am
samishah
A fashion magazine (the only kind of magazines available in Pakistan) asked me to write a piece for them about anything. The writer who commissioned it subsequently left the magazine with my piece falling between the cracks. So here it is for free: Let me tell you a secret. Lean in a bit, I don’t [...]... Read More
11 November 2010, 5:46 pm
samishah
We pride ourselves in being able to get back to normal right after a tragedy. Suicide Bombing? Let’s go out for dinner! Flooding? New episodes of Mad Men! I blame Bakra Eid. The big joke is that if an American saw the goat being slaughtered he would need years of therapy. But we are so [...]... Read More
11 November 2010, 5:46 pm
samishah
We pride ourselves in being able to get back to normal right after a tragedy. Suicide Bombing? Let’s go out for dinner! Flooding? New episodes of Mad Men! I blame Bakra Eid. The big joke is that if an American saw the goat being slaughtered he would need years of therapy. But we are so [...]... Read More
