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Sunday, 17th January 2021
This week we’ve been asking some pretty tough questions on our Instagram stories. Asking our followers to vote in polls with questions like, ‘Are you with the one you love’, ‘Do you think your parents know you’, and ‘Are you happy right now’. I loved checking to see how many people were engaging with the poll since so many were, and I was amazed to see how many people inboxed us wanting to talk about their lives. 58 percent said they were not with the one they loved, and 62 percent said they weren’t with who they wanted to be with because of family issues rather than societal norms. 59 percent felt their family knew them and 64 percent said they felt happy right now. You know what that shows me?  Resilience. Hum aik muaashray mein rehte hain jahan it’s difficult to have a love marriage or date lekin hum phir bhi khush hain.

Urooj Ali The Current kay lifestyle desk ko manage karti hain and when I met Urooj, I was so impressed by how happy she was. And yes, being happy is an impressive thing. She was energetic, smart and so very young. She had been working at another online channel and wanted to join us to do reporting — but there is no challenge that Urooj has not taken up — and succeeded at. Not because she’s lucky, but because she is incredibly hardworking. Some of our best lifestyle stories are written by her, she goes out and gets people to talk to her for our social questions (like the ones asked in the polls above) called Mujhe Samajh Nahin Aata and let’s not forget her amazing exploration of historical sites called Secrets of Lahore. 

This week Urooj takes us on a tour of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s son Maharaja Sher Singh’s summer house (most people haven’t even heard of or seen it) and it’s such a fun watch (lifestyle of the historical and famous) that you will most definitely want to join Ashar as he checks out Badshah Tandoors’ Pizza Naan on this week’s food review. I can’t wait for the day I can go out and eat without a mask but to my anger and disappointment, aisa nahi lagta kay Pakistan mai vaccine jald ayegi. Apparently, the government doesn’t care because according to journalist Saleem Safi and Suhail Warriach, government officials have secretly gotten vaccinated and are home corona-free. At this point, it’s just speculation and when it comes to knowing what’s going on in government, PM Khan has also told his spokespersons to stop sharing details of his party meetings with the media. And I promise this wasn’t planned but Mahwish Bhatti’s opinion piece called, “Pata Nahin Imran Khan” seems quite apt today (I’m really hoping this vaccine news isn’t true). 

Even though it’s been hard to stay isolated this past year, I know what I want to do when I get the vaccine. Hop over to Sindh to see the site where archaeologists say was a third-century settlement and eat at The Grizzly Burger, a restaurant that hired a transgender staff to challenge the unfair practises of the Pakistani society. I’m also looking forward to seeing actor Sajal Aly in Jemima Goldsmith’s new movie  ‘What’s love got to do with it?’ But there doesn’t seem to be an end to the virus anytime soon. What do you think? When will we be free?

At this sad, yet hopeful note, Karachi is going to have a wonderful sunny day today, Islamabad, Quetta and Peshawar are also sunny while Lahore will be cloudy. Oh and I almost forgot a story you guys might be interested in. Singer Asim Azhar has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board to stop ignoring him. (I promise I wasn’t. I just forgot to add him in). 

Haha, kal milte hain! Theek 8:30AM!
Marium
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