Mood Street: Ramblings of an environmentalist

A reservoir in Hungary exploded this week, flooding a town with several meters of toxic sludge that caused four deaths and many chemical burns. Preventing disasters like this is exactly what environmentalists are paid for.

Mood Street: All in an apple

Apple is more than a fruit. It is, in fact, a symbol with a long heritage. One of the most familiar apple symbols is found in our holy books – most prominently in the Bible. Apple is the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and resulted in a shocking landing of man from Heavens on Earth. Had this apple not been consumed, there is a possibility that our joy-ride on planet Earth would not have materialized.

Replug: My school years

My first school on the Zahoor Elahi Road in Gulberg Lahore

“School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam.” — Einstein

I changed three schools. The first one was a renowned girls’ school in Gulberg, Lahore. It was famous because of its eccentric sari-clad (quasi-feminist) owner, Victorian-style vigilantes and supplying fodder to institutes like Kinnaird. But by the time I reached it, the decay had begun and the ship was falling apart. 

Filling the dental hole

Almost a decade back, my mother and I used to visit a dentist on Lahore’s Temple Road. The dentist’s practice was thriving.

The clinic was based right next to a hole in the road which was giving out sewage water. And, somehow, my mother had convinced him that her cousin in LDA will fix that gaping wound on his clinic.

The guy was old, thin and balding. And retrospectively speaking, he should have explained those yellow crooked front teeth.

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The Gang of Three

My grandfather had two friends and he pulled down the drawing room curtains when they came, probably to prevent us ladies from getting charmed by one of the old boys. And, my mother sneaked out the bakery cake, biscuits or nimko from her secret cabinets and put a pot of water for boiling on the stove.

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