This week was crazy. This year was crazier. Maybe, someday, when I have the time and patience, I’ll write all about it (I have notes, y’know) but not today, not for a foreseeable future. The Invitation So, I was racing against time to finish things, last day and all (for the deliverable, nothing to do…
Author: Shabana Mukhtar
Book Review | Eleven Numbers | Lee Child
Eleven Numbers An American mathematician’s assignment in Russia spirals into a high-stakes maze of shifting loyalties and intrigue in a propulsive short thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child. Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So…
Welcome 2026 | New Year Resolutions
Happy New Year!!! To Those who believe in that kinda stuff. I don’t, but then new year marks a fresh quota of many things (Like casual leaves are credited to the Timeoff calendar and what not). See, new year is important. As I said a few years ago, I am not a “New Year Resolutions”…
Kehna Yeh Thha Ki…
وہ کہنا یہ تھا کہ۔۔۔ اگر آپ نے آٹھ دس ہزار کی فلائٹ کی ٹکٹ بک کر لی ہے تو سفر کے لیے ۱۰۰-۲۰۰ کے ہیڈ فونز بھی خرید لیے ہوتے۔ آپ کو فارورڈ آئے ہوئے واہیات ویڈیوز کو فل والیوم میں سننے کا باقی مسافروں کو کوئی شوق نہیں ہے۔ ویسے بھی عموماً ڈومیسٹک…
The Year That Was 2025
Yearly recap of 2025, because why not? Wrote Almost Nothing One novel and two short stories under my name, nothing under any other pen names. That’s all wrote this year. Reasons not to be disclosed. So Out of My League After the Bell Rain Because I wrote very little, I earned very little as royalty….
Roundup | December 2025
Intro Three months in a row. Am I awesome of what? December 2025 Reading Roundup I planned to read all Indian authors from my shelf. Of course, that would be too much, so I picked the pile from the back of the shelf. A nice mix, isn’t it? 1. The Most Eligible Bachelor — Satyapal…
Wednesday Whimsies | My 2025 with ChatGPT
What fun things we can do with AI, no? Today, when I logged in, ChatGPT suggested that I check out “My year with ChatGPT”. I did and was impressed. Go ahead, check out your year with ChatGPT here: https://www.chatgpt.com/?q=YourYearWithChatGPT Regards, Shabana
Tuesday Tantrums | The Candy Crush Fiasco
I’ve had a very long relationship with candy crush. If I remember correctly, I started playing the game in 2013 sometime, back when life was simpler, my thumbs were innocent, and match-three games hadn’t yet wrapped themselves around my soul like a clingy situationship. From the beginning, ours was a classic love-hate relationship: I loved…
Binge Watch 2025 | News Radio
Reason for Binging For at least three months now, every few days, I see a short on my YouTube feed showing Jimmy and Melanie’s proposal/negotiation. One day, I was just thinking about it, and it appeared on my feed. It was so spooky. And that’s when I decided to watch the show. Thanks to a…
Wordle 1655 | DECOR
Today’s wordle word is: DECOR. I used all attempts but got it right. I’m so out of touch of playing this, that I end up using the alphabets I KNOW aren’t in the word. Silly me! You can play wordle here: