Writer's Block tgh: Chowk Articles

"If a banker can pester you to open an account, why mind a writer exercising his right to open your mind?"

Many years ago, my following articles and blogs appeared on a social media website called CHOWK (now extinct):

1) Never go to Chaanga Maanga
Tahir Gul Hasan
Sep 20, 2000 interacts: 104 Views: 15284
Chaanga Maanga; what a name!

2) Right Burqa, Wrong Lips
Tahir Gul Hasan--
Oct 21, 2001 interacts: 52 Views: 10995
We watch the stride and the quickness of females to judge their age

3) Look Ma, No Pants!
Tahir Gul Hasan
Dec 12, 2001 interacts: 13 Views: 6607
Any user of a public domain name like Osama Bin Laden is neither a trademark thief nor a patent pickpocket...

4) Halloween
Tahir Gul Hasan
Oct 20, 2002 interacts: 90 Views: 13064
What hope could one have from misled leaders to protect the cultural and religious borders

5) The Yellow Coup

Tahir Gul Hasan

Feb 8, 2003 interacts: 13 Views: 5109

Are we all living in a yellow submarine?

6) Uncle Sam Talking in His Sleep
Tahir Gul Hasan
Mar 28, 2003 interacts: 13 Views: 5425
Assorted pearls of wisdom from the U.S. State Department

7) The Wild Side Of The Mall
Tahir Gul Hasan
Nov 6, 2007 interacts: 18 Views: 5535
They changed the name of The Mall Road of Lahore to Shahra-e-Quaid-e-Azam years ago. I was too young then to object and since old habits never die, I will, with a cynical smile, call the lifeline of Lahore by its old name: The Mall.

8) In Search Of Baby Chips

Tahir Gul Hasan
Dec 21, 2007 interacts: 15 Views: 4311
I switched on the projector inside my head, loaded up a dusty reel from the 1960s, and began: ?Once upon a time there lived a little boy who often visited Lahore's Anarkali bazaar...

9) The Snow Will Melt
Tahir Gul Hasan
Jan 14, 2008 interacts: 76 Views: 14335
"So what happened to that Fokker which crashed in the mountains?" sipping coffee, she (Benazir Bhutto) took the words right out of my mouth. Did Billy and Dabbu speak through her?

10) Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Tahir Gul Hasan
Apr 17, 2008 interacts: 51 Views: 7838
I am late for the Glasgow-bound flight, and although I do say the usual at the check-in counter, my favourite seat near an over-wing emergency exit is already taken.

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And then Chowk died...good riddance to bad rubbish.

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