Saturday, 14 May 2016

Match Making


Match making these days has very strong commercial aspects. I remember those days when people are interactive and social at human level. People met with each other very often and in these meeting elder people decide about the marriage of youngsters sometime in very early stages. Of course love stories remain constant in history and present. However, nowadays elder people have no longer any role. Lower /middle class Parent of girls have no option except waiting for any proposal even their daughter are well educated. Other than these parents there are one group of parent who access match maker .After contacting these match maker one long game started. Girl dress up glamorously and present herself in front of different parties sent by match maker. Sometimes girls parent refuse and sometime opposite party rejection is seen. If boy is from England /Dubai…. then the protocol is really different. Now marriages are not relation among two families or person .It is very pity now marriages are relation of profession. So what the hell is this? I have no words to express this emerging trend of my society have you?




By,
Architect Shahneela Farhan










Monday, 18 January 2016

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

GARBAGE BURNING IN THE CITY

Yesterday I read an article that mention Pakistan is a state of Waste Disposal Mismanagement. I don’t know about whole Pakistan but as a Karachiite I agreed with this statement. In fact city lack basic infrastructure of waste disposable due to unplanned growth. One very alarming issue that is never focused in my city is garbage burning. One can find burning waste everywhere even in Clifton area as well .People take it very lightly and move forward or living in the same come condition. However what the whole city is inhaling is air with poison. It is not the rocket science to understand the repercussion of this way of disposing waste in living area. For the sake of very little amount of money employees of concerned authorities usually do these activity .They take out the petrol that is given by their company to transport the garbage to designated location , and burn the garbage rather than collecting or disposing to right location .They  make money by selling this petrol, so double profit for them.  This is a really hideous theft which is not impacting just on one person or family it is impacting on uncountable number of people. 


My son who is allergic I could deeply feel the pain he is suffering just because of this ridiculous action of few people. I wonder if there is any space in Karachi where my son could breathe fresh air. It must be ridiculous to blame our government for not doing any action because they are just busy in politics of stupidity. There is need to raised voice by every citizen and action by every citizen otherwise all Karachiite future will be suffering from lung cancer or other any disease.   

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Architect Shahneela Farhan for Facebook PF & Google PF

Saturday, 14 November 2015

Monday, 2 November 2015

FORGOT THE ACTUAL TASTE

I belong to a mid-class family  and remember the time when we ate only kichri( Cooked rice in combination with lentils) with salad. We really enjoy that food and was really happy. However, now on our dining table meat dishes is compulsory .People make faces with the name of Daal(Lentil)or vegetables .Usually these dishes are considered as side dishes not main meal. Mostly party menu are Biryani,BBQ items or PIZZA . Vegetables and Daal is never served to guest why?
Our new generation has very limited options for their food .If I look back in the past what I see is the variety in the food .let’s talk about breakfast the option were HALWA PURI, ALU KA PARATHAY ,DAHI / MALAI/KHEER  WITH ROTI OR NIGHT REMAINING SALAN WITH NIGHT ROTI………Similarly for lunch and dinner options are uncountable such as KARI,PANCHON MILI DAAL,TAHARI,MATAR CHAWAL,…..and all type of vegetables like CABBAGE,OKRA, SPINACH, BEETROOT , BOTTLE GOURD,BITTER GOURD,FENKUGREEK LEAVES………..The beauty of that time was that people eat one dish at a time and enjoy the taste.
I hope I could bring change and revitalize the taste of people so they focus on one dish at a time and could enjoy the taste rather than comparing taste of different dishes.
Written by,
Architect Shahneela Farhan