Prior to this instance, I had already visited Turkiye thrice. The first time was a duty call, the second, due to our ‘guest’ Abhinandan, I got stuck in transit. The third time was for my infamous friend F, who called me for a stopover to show him around while I was travelling to the United […]
It started at my office at Shaheen Complex, where the afternoon found me buried deep in endless code. Fixated, as if I were to solve a NP problem. Unaware, as I could not hear anything other than the work I was doing. After a third knock on the door, a number beyond which ignorance would […]
(Side note: The word ‘peer’ is better to be read in urdu or in punjabi than in English. Its meaning and context will be revealed as you delve further into this narrative.) The dream kindled in October, 2013, when I was sipping frothy coffee, lounging in my comfortable office chair on the 4th floor of […]
Preamble Pakistani passport is tricky; getting a visa is somewhat an adventure in itself. Be that as it may, I have been to over two dozen countries through it. Whenever I narrate my voyages to anyone, the response is recurring – they ask me to write a travel diary, or a blog, or maybe even […]