Sonya Syed

Yesterday was a tough day not due to some external situation but mainly due to my own irritability and anger. I have been working on my academic project for months now and with lot of effort I was able to come up with the final draft, which was also approved for submission; just few days before submission deadline when I looked at my work I realized that it was “my worse writing ever!” Naturally I was lost, angry and clueless. I meditated and prayed really got down on my knees, I needed some inspiration just one cue- but nothing happened. It was in that moment I realized that whatever creative I do whether painting, blogging, working or cooking (yes I do cook) it all happens to me. I don’t really do anything myself, some kind of energy comes in giving me all the directions and dictations and I simply follow them. Of course, my intellect and thinking is involved but its only vessel through which creativity passes from. It is not only with me but whenever you do anything th...

My Heartiest Congratulations & Prayers for Imran Khan and his wife Reham on their marriage, and to all the couples who tied the knot recently. May you all live in bliss, harmony and prosperity together. When I wrote my last post on PTI's dharna I had no idea that my next one will be on the marriage of PTI's Chairman Imran Khan with Reham Khan, it was just a matter of days that entire situation has changed dramatically. When the news started to pour in about Imran Khan’s marriage I was a bit uncomfortable because I didn’t like the way either the media or PTI/ Imran Khan handled the situation. All of a sudden a lady’s picture was splashing on every channel with Indian songs playing in the background. (The concept of playing Indian wedding songs on Pakistani news channels is beyond the reach of my humble thinking.) And finally after a lot of chaos we saw the grand finale of this event, when the newly wedded couple posed in front of the camera. A sense...

No I am referring to the recent sit-ins by PTI but Dharna is the recent theater play written by veteran writer Anwar Maqsood and directed by Dawar Mehmood. This is there third or fourth collaboration and I must say they always give us delightful treats. When their first play Anagan Terha was being shown I was skeptic of this endeavor, mostly because I watched Anagan Terha almost hundred times; it was my childhood classic and thanks to the frequent re-runs of the show on PTV   I have completely absorbed it with all my senses. Whether it was Shakeel, Bushra Ansari or the great Salim Nasir, they made this play immortal. I was worried that no one can give what Saleem Nasir gave to the role of ‘Akbar’ but to my sheer surprise the new actor ….. did complete justice to the character. And I am sure if Saleem Nasir was alive he would have been very happy as well. Although it has been more than a year when the play was presented in Karachi, and for historical hundred days i...

This is a story of a woman who belongs to Pakistan. Once upon time not long ago there lived a woman whose life was peaceful and everything was perfectly under her control until…… Until someone comes in her life, hands over to her something which is very precious for them, and asks her to become a part of the most important time in their life. It is the wedding invitation . Oh no! there are other invites also: one for mayoon, one for mehndi, baraat and valima. Since the families are close so you are also heartily invited to attend dholkis as well. The life which was once calm and composed suddenly begins to shake…and then just when she is about to make some sense of it all…. There is another invite and another and another…. Then she begins the greatest search for clothes, a wild hunting for the best and the most exquisite, and if something appropriate is not available in her closet she would make panicked calls to friends and family asking for help, some g...