Hello!

Apologies for such a delayed post, there was a mix-up with the email addresses and i only just got the blog invite delivered to my inbox :)

Let me start by updating with lahore, its grown deliciously nostalgic and cold in the past few nights, and i woke up with a extremely cold pillow today. the kids at university huddle together in groups, blow into their hands from time to time, or drift off lazily to scourge the canteens for chai and samosas. it's a great time for nazia and zohaib songs, and a bad time for electricity outages - we get both. the city has been sealed off i read today, to shake off the smugglers who've been sneaking atta (prices at an all-time high, 24-26 rs per kg) outside the city. we have the occasional winter drizzles (khin-khin in urdu), permanently cold hands, and much bigger smiles (ten day holidays right around the corner!!)

now back to this business of our wonderfully rebellious BOL. It's great that we're all coming together to figure out the design and title for the anthology, but we should perhaps embark on the next chapter of our existence?

We are twenty highly creative and strong minds (twenty-two including norman and ms. amra :)) and like someone stated in one of the earlier group discussions; with ability comes responsibility (or was that spiderman? ;)) We need to start somewhere. We have opinions, suggestions, complaints and we need to convey these to a wider audience.

Perhaps we can start by submitting prose, poetry, op-ed pieces in local newspapers? These could be socially responsible pieces? Or political pieces? (everybody seems to want to make a political statement nowadays though)

Perhaps we can pull some connections (a few of us are in the media) and try to have a weekly column in a newspaper where a different member can write each week- on whatever important thing they want to say-

Or maybe we could work on a magazine? something bi-annually? or quart-annually?



What do y'all say? What is it that we must do next?