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NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 26

Nothing at all. I did not even open the document today. Current Word Count: 46,782 Shabana Mukhtar

NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 25

The target is in sight. A few more days… The story is far from complete, though. I need to work more on the main character’s conflict and detail out the supporting characters. Current Word Count: 46,782 Shabana Mukhtar

NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 24

Sunday is a fruitful day. Well, credit should be given to the much awaited last weekend of NaNoWriMo. Current Word Count: 41,187 Shabana Mukhtar

NaNoWriMo 2019: Day 23

I spent most of my time blogging and hardly got any time to write. Current Word Count: 35,355 Shabana Mukhtar

Tuk Bandi #1 (Urdu)

Note: Sometimes, I mix up lines from poetry and songs and it still makes perfect sense. Tuk Bandi is just for fun. Let’s see if the readers can identify the components 🙂

Tuk Bandi #1 (Hindi)

Note: Sometimes, I mix up lines from poetry and songs and it still makes perfect sense. Tuk Bandi is just for fun. Let’s see if the readers can identify the components 🙂

Ibn-e-Safi: the first author I “knew”

Introduction to Ibn-e-Safi No, I didn’t literally know him. He had passed away long before I was born. I know him as in I read so much of him at such young age that I gradually started to remember his name. This guy writes good stories. As kids, we don’t think about who wrote the…

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Getting Indian Passport Is Easy

Getting Indian passport is easy. And, quick. And, unlike everything that I had imagined. I visited the passport office on a Friday afternoon. After a week, on a Saturday morning, the courier walah delivered the passport. A week is all takes to get a passport. I did not even apply for a tatkal or out…

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