Azka's Writeups

As the clock struck midnight on  the 13th of August, the sky erupted with fireworks.Sure enough they were beautiful to watch but highly painful to the ears. A heart patient could have had a seizure anytime! Loud blares of toy trumpets below mixed irritably with the ear splitting screeches of flares and the loud explosions of fireworks above. One of our neighbors is of a considerably well social status and can easily afford the sacks of fireworks and such stuff as his young boys demand. They set up equally loud speakers on which they played Pakistani songs which were later replaced by Bollywood ones and a humongous stage was utilized as a dancing platform, these dirty tunes were accompanied with cheers of Pakistan Zindabad and Allah u Akbar from the crowd, oh the irony!   A few Pakistani actors were also invited and were given such an alarmingly deafening welcome that they would rather not come again. On the 14th of August all this rowdiness took place again but this time ...