Scribbles from Sayari

"Idle thoughts of an idle fellow"

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Arguing with Manto: A Completely Unrespectable Love Story

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 I did not fall in love with Saadat Hasan Manto the respectable way. You know the respectable way. The one where you speak in solemn tones a...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Colours of my Heart

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 It is a standing joke among my old friends that every two weeks I develop a “latest crush.” This started back in my college days, and they ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Navigation, Not Victory

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  For a long time, mountaineering was my metaphor for life. Climb, slip, climb again. Acclimatize. Wait out storms. Accept that sometimes t...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Sky That Remembered Me - Polynesian Navigation and an Ancient Familiarity

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Hawaiʻi has a way of lowering your shoulders before you even realize they were tense. Coconut trees sway without urgency. The afternoons are...
Monday, July 22, 2019

On opening a new chapter of my life

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It looks like I have not blogged in just over a year, and in my defense there is a big reason for it. I just became a mom. For all those w...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Kauai Humane Society

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With Scout You surely know how one can check out books from a library, but did you know that you can check out dogs? I call it borrowi...
Saturday, June 02, 2018

"Mocha'r ghonto" - thoughts on cooking banana florets

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I have posted a few times about food in my blog here, but I am not going to post any recipes because I don't want to make this anywher...
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