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Sameena Khan

Dilemma Over Spiderman Dec 31, 1969

'So what if people have died, why can’t we go watch a movie?' She demanded to know. A thousand bombs exploded within me.

To Hug or not to Hug Dec 31, 1969

This is going to last me a lifetime! She gushed to Shah Rukh Khan, the new, dapper and witty host of Kaun Banega Crorepati that started yet another season on Jan 22, 2007.

So Long Farewell Dec 31, 1969

It was her mother’s funeral. The woman residing within her had cast a demonic, necromantic spell upon her. Like Mephistopheles having lost his soul, she, the daughter, sat frozen and immobile bereft of any sense of loss or grief – one insurmou

Doves Dec 31, 1969

While writing to his old friend Fazal Din, Lobh Singh remembered that even in those days he (Fazal Din) used to correct him: 'You teach Urdu, Lobhe. Don’t you even know how to spell welfare?'

Advantage, Men Dec 31, 1969

Not all men… are such perverts though. You still have a gentlemanly breed, at your neighborhood pharmacies, which unfailingly wrap the sanitary napkin of your choice in a newspaper, tie it up with a thread and put it in a black shopper.

A Woman Scorned... Dec 31, 1969

This could be an act of defiance. Perhaps she couldn’t forgive Imran even though she so magnanimously accepted Tyrian. Perhaps she is revolted by the holier-than-thou attitude of us desis, the double standards we harbor and our failure to practice

Movie: Rudali Dec 31, 1969

Rudali revisted................music on celluloid.

Conversion Confusion Dec 31, 1969

Naila’s wedding is as old as Uzma’s younger son…running into six…and she is still issueless. Initially, the delay was intentional…the family is not sure if it is so anymore.

Times to Come... Dec 31, 1969

The non-conformists who retained their attraction for the opposite sex were subjected to derogatory and condescending looks; their families disowned them; the public ostracized them; they were the social outcasts; they went hiding behind closed doors and

To Be Or Not To Be Home? Dec 31, 1969

Then there is the equation with the husband. All the ladies that I spoke to put their husbands on hold till the weekend. 'Otherwise, the entire schedule goes haywire', said one. 'Can’t get up and get going early morn next day', chimed another. 'Who

Movie: Khwahish Dec 31, 1969

Its about `loving, living and losing".

Ilogs Dec 31, 1969

It helps you “read, write and think”. With such indulgence you can only derive pleasure……mental, emotional and intellectual and certainly not carnal as in pornography.

Colour discrimination Dec 31, 1969

And so it has come to pass that my dear husband never misses a day for having to suffer life with me, his bhootni

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