KholahDar

The Bitter Sweetness

She had taken the last sip when silence took complete control over the lounge. Her two day old straightened hair, her chipped red nail paint all just gave away her otherwise clean cut persona. She had been staring at her cell phone, the one thing that she never looked at for hours. Her...

13 January 2012 | 8 Comments

Sheepy Shallows and Confusion-Education

My question is simple, when you could have made money selling fried chicken or maybe a copy version of a high tech device, why did you than venture into education? Clearly, money was the prime objective, why than ruin the sanctity of Academia. You had no right to cheat, defraud, swindle and make complete...

24 April 2011 | 0 Comments

‘Bahria’ will sail through.

I have been working with Bahria University for three and a half years now and I have had to deal with nothing different that I had not dealt with in my previous job placements. There were days I wanted to kill my bosses (not literally just in my head) and days when we...

09 April 2011 | 0 Comments

Expiry Date for Men (with a silver linning)

I am sure you have had the pleasure of encountering the kind I will describe below, men with hair as silver as the moonlit night and a collection of never ending ties. I am talking about the chain of bosses I had to work with or rather put up with in my small work...

02 April 2011 | 0 Comments

Youth Yodle Doo

So, one day where I work we decide to have a break from the boredom and get onto something fun. We arrange for everyone a Spring Fest and think we have done ourselves and others a huge favor in doing so. I smile quietly staring at hoards of students and faculty; smiling, eating, singing...

26 March 2011 | 0 Comments

Over a Cup of Tea

I have had people ask me how I get the job done by the most non work oriented individuals. My answer is – over a cup of tea with a smile. We so under estimate the power of tea and just sitting in the most important offices and making important decisions that impact people....

26 March 2011 | 0 Comments

Lawnalicious – Lipstick Jungle

No, this article has nothing to do with the series lipstick jungle but yes it is about a jungle nevertheless. I got the excruciatingly painful opportunity to go out with my college friends; the ones that have successfully not married the men they had fallen in love with at that time but made the...

26 March 2011 | 0 Comments

Washing Away Our Hands- The Convenient Approach

Washing Away Our Hands- The Convenient Approach “This is a university and we have to follow an academic road map and that is all we should be interested in,” infamous words, by a not so very famous a man. It really sets the tone for a discussion that should the educational institutions anywhere incorporate...

15 March 2011 | 0 Comments

Character Assassination

Having attempted to write for years now, this could not have come at a better time; confusion deceit, lawlessness, rape, murder and last but not the least undying passion and 32 years later I feel I can do this. When we are born we are wrinkly, pink and apart from one part of us,...

16 October 2010 | 0 Comments