If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?
19/08/2026@Waakiye
Hey…
I hope all of you are doing well…!
Well,
There are many moments small and big that led to who and what we are as humanity…!
Some of them were necessary like moving from using animals to plough our fields to these giant mechanical machinery that do the same work that was done by them in a single day within a few hours…!
Something like invention of electricity before which we relied heavily on natural light and when the sun set we had to take out lamps and candles…!
And now due to the advent of electricity we stay in the comfort of our own homes and pay these massive bills each month…!
But,
There was something more important that I’d like to erase from all humanity,
It’s more of how and what we perceive other people…!
Like imagine if someone owes me something and they can’t seem to find means to pay for it…!
They themselves become the resource that pays for what they owed me…!
Yes I’m taking about the fact that humans were considered as a property and something that can be transferred and sold when needed…!
In simple words I’d like to erase the concept of Slavery…!
I’d like to do away with the concept that humans could be traded or used as a means to cover something that they couldn’t pay off…!
Human life is precious in itself and if someone has to stay under someone rule and become someone’s object and someone they can repurpose and sell when it seems fit to them,
It would remove the purpose of living this life…!
I know humanity would find a way to repurpose the concept of slavery and come up with a different name for it,
But,
I’d like to do away with the concept that humans can be traded and owned as resources first…!
Because the more you think about it,
The more human nature becomes something that finds ways to exploit the people who are less fortunate…!
Song of the day from me to you
Naseeb by bhalwaan
Bhalwaan is someone who has been in the game for a while now and his flows are immaculate and the way he brings these concepts to us is just amazing…!
The song opens with
ਮੇਰਾ ਐਨਾ ਵੀ ਨਸੀਬ ਨਈ, ਕੇ ਦਿਲ ਦੇ ਕਰੀਬ ਕੋਈ—
The opening line speaks on how,
He’s not fortunate enough to have someone in their fate…!
But I hope you do have someone in your fate and lifewhom you adore and get love from…!
Happy independence day to those who are celebrating…!
Maybe you are planning to host a get-together, or you will be joining someone who invited you…!
Or maybe you are going outside with your family to eat and this prompt couldn’t come at the right time…!
Even if you would like to stay at home and order in that would be perfect because of delivery services like zomato/swiggy…!
Or,
Maybe you’re like me munching on some matar or some matthi straight out of the box like some caveman…!
I guess this box will end by the evening and I’ll need to buy some more for later…!
And I don’t take any questions about the box because it was thoroughly cleaned before I put matar in those…!
Why do we call it matar you ask,
Because it’s in the shape of a matar or a pea pod 🫛, well without the peas of course…!
Also,
Can you call it a day off when you don’t wake up early and everyone who is at home wants you to work early on in the morning…?
I was woken up by the maid cleaning our house and mom having a loud conversation about her life, her daughter and how her son is going out of her hand…!
And to someone who just woke up, it felt like they were having a full blown fight and I ran into my living room,
And guess what,
They were having a normal conversation and I tried to go back to sleep,
Emphasis on the tried to…!
So guess what,
I had to help my sister put up curtains and our ladder broke and after fixing it my sister decided to make breakfast..!
And after considering a while and deciding on poha which I love,
She decided to make vermicelli…!
😅🥲🥲
So I guess we will be having vermicelli after all…!
Back to the best restaurant in my city…!
Well none of these are in order and they will give you want you want and how you want it to feel…!
First would be Pukhtaän
If tou know what I’m talking about you already are familiar with the flavor of the Padma shri awardee chef Imtiaz Qureshi’s son Ashfaque Qureshi…!
I was able to enjoy once in Rajouri Garden and taking home delivery more than four times in Karol Bagh(which was recently closed down due to them not being able to secure enough well paying crowd here…!)
Everything slaps here,
Even its black dal or red meat…!
You are paying good amount for the food and your expectations will be exceeded for sure…!
Second would be New Tera hotel
Situated right next to where the pukhtaän was in Karol Bagh,
You will be greeted by a handsome Sardarji with a warm welcome and a big smile where you can either place your order or dine in at any given time of the day…!
I’d recommend the paneer bhurji and their double fry dal along with parantha or naan I’d recommend to try to garlic one…!
A pure veg restaurant which uses ghee for cooking all of the dishes,
They can swap out garlic too but you’ll have to confirm that yourself…!
Third would be Panjabi Angeethi
A place that I get delivered my food from every now and then,
Even if it’s only for you or a party that you’re hosting, they have awesome deals like paneer, daal, chaap, pulao,rolls etc…!
You can have food and never get tired of it…!
Last would be Prem Dhaba…!
From veggie options to all non veg options you can have food at their venue, infront of the restaurant in your car or get it delivered…!
I have been having their food ever since I was a kid and you cannot match that they serve because it’s mixed with nostalgia for me…!
You can check them all out one visit at a time, if you plan to visit Delhi or Karol Bagh any time in the near future…!
Let’s not forget the song of the day
Die young
Don’t we wish to rush and earn big money and die fast…?
Well,
Not if you want to leave a legacy and live a long life and set an example that the people around you can look upto…!
The obsession that some of us have with gangsta rap is something we cannot explain to others, while we drive to our desk job or office…!
Gagg-E and Deep Dhaliwal…!
Happy Independence Day to those who are celebrating…!
A dinner would be a nice time to discuss the things and aspects about life, relationships and all the interpersonal conversation and relations that we have or try to have in our daily life…!
Well instead of choosing a single author why can’t I have something like the last supperwhere we discuss things and arrive at conclusions together…!
First would be Fyodor Dostoevsky
A dinner that would destroy me mentally but I wouldn’t give in anytime soon and ask a follow up question after questing my sanity and processing a reply Of course the food would get cold as I think and ponder in my imaginative world and form a reply or another question…!
Second would be Jorge Luis Borges
We would discuss(well argue) about the time and its constrains,
And if the time or the passage of it is made up just to extract more from us…!
And we would discuss the infinite traps that we are currently experiencing as we try to wiggle through each day…!
We would end up creating a person in an imaginative world and give them all of the problems that we deal with on the daily and try to revive them each time they fall or aren’t left with any more hope…!
A complete science experiment within our heads that’s what it would become at the end…!
Third would be Khalil Gibran
As you know my obsession with the author and the type of work where everything is answered in a poetic fashion which would become lame after the first hour and I would beg them to talk normally—
We would discuss love, grief, human nature and its complexities, and by the end we would probably be swirling wine/drinking whiskey neat with some ice as it cools the glasses as we process every problem that exists and will exist in the near future…!
Last would be Rabindranath Tagore
Yes,
A bit of a polar opposite,
But,
We would discuss poetry, love, spirituality and love for our country that we share…!
Well,
For once my thoughts and ideas would be heard and ideas would flow in our native language rather than taken as critical comment and handled with hostility—
I’d have room to learn and explore my own self and a chance to expand my horizon too…!
A dinner well staring with appetisers and leading to main course which happens all of us are done grabbing at each others throats and maybe end with a cold dessert which would bring some cool and calmness into us after which all of us would leave after bidding our goodbyes to each other…!
Before going check out the song of the day…!
Gagan kooner and my obsession with Panjabi language…!
One of the best upcoming artists who loves to create his own music and write his own lyrics,
And brings the listeners to the brim of emotion and cause them to feel very much once the song ends..!
Isn’t there something that all of us wanted to learn in school which we weren’t taught…?
I mean we were taught to have a good memory and throw up everything that we were taught all year on a piece of paper that held our fate of being successful and getting into the next standard…!
We were told to be obedient, follow rules and ultimately be responsible workers instead of being ourselves…!
And that is where I think Indian education system lacked and still lacks…!
We weren’t taught to be creative and have an explorative mindset,
Although we had options but we were forced by our parents and we did what our peers did and that made us feel compatible with them…!
And guess what,
Where did most of them end up..?
Working in a 9 to 5 or running a family business…!
A few were there who had a chance and escaped the scene and left India as soon as year 18-19 and struggled outside of India for their and their family’s betterment…!
Never were we taught to be who we are,
Who we were,
But,
Being workers for a company,
That we were taught…!
I really wish we were taught and had a chance to explore who we were instead of sticking to a curriculum and being graded on that;
Because I see people stuck in a job or a life that they didn’t plan or want, they are still becoming that is what they know…!
If we were taught and learned what we were good at earlier we would have started to hone it earlier than shaving time from our regular life before and after work…!
It was never what we were taught or not,
It was about who we were before and who we were transformed into after going through the gears of the curriculum…!
Let’s not forget the song of the day
Nai Barghouti the name is enough
Even if you don’t listen to any other language I recommend this song…!
She is someone who gives me goosebumps because of the skill she possesses
Even though i don’t understand the language i feel myself very blessed to be able to hear her voice and the skill she has gradually honed over the years..!
A Palestinian singer who mixes Arabic and Palestinian with classical and jazz music…!
Share a photo of your pet and tell us one thing that makes them uniquely them.
08/08/2026@Waakiye
Hey…!
I hope all of you are doing well…!
After battling a tiring day yesterday where I was challenged with grinding two shafts which had multiple sizes and different tolerances,
After killing that task I was handed a cam,
Well four actually and I had to grind them to size and they were built in such an odd way that any way I tried to hold it they were 0.40mm or 15 thou out from the centre…!
I’ll share a pic under here
The cam in question The complex four in question
Coming back to the prompt…!
Coco And our pet Mithu…!
Well you know how beagles are,
Curious and interested in everting that comes across them and he is such a chaotic mess that he steals our hearts all the time…!
Apart from marking our home where he has lived all his life with pee, he can’t seem to get enough of it ever..!
He’s like “you clean it and remove the proof that I live here” and he pees yet again…!
And Mithu
She’s an indie we rescued from the streets and nursed her back to good health…!
She has a maggot infestation in her neck and they were spreading fast,
So we brought her back to good health and decided to adopt her..!
And now she sits and sleeps on our beds and sofas…!
A little jealous,
Yes I am but look at her,
She’s such a curious one and learns things fast,
Right now she’s looking at me and asking me to give her food which I am going to right now…!
Before going let me share the song of the day…!
The language of my understanding goes beyond the type of beat that goes on behind the lyrics
So be it…!
Yes,
More than a song but a masterpiece from the album, the music video is a cherry on the top…!
I will get my phone back this evening and I will be treating it with much better care and consideration from now on…!
Well,
There are many travel destinations that I have within India because the type of work I do, a lot of people are dependent on me and my workings to work ahead;
And when you are trapped in such a situation it becomes much harder for you to leave the workplace and be at places that you want…!
There are many places that I want to visit like the mountains and serene valleys of kashmir,
To seeing the coffee plantations down south;
To hand plucking tea leaves which are sold to the world from Assam,
To enjoying a hot cup of tea in bikaner with a few locals as I explore the country…!
There are a lot of dreams and aspiration that we want in our lives and it makes the life worth living and worthy of enjoying with friends and people who you are close to…!
For the time being I will be heading out to work and enjoying a friends birthday later this evening,
With a hope that we will spend the coming year together too…!
Let’s not forget the song of the day;
A song that was a banger back then and I hope is today too…!
A lot of rumours and beef with other artists is going on with Navaan Sandhu but,
In each of their league every artist outperforms themselves and try to bing the best out of themselves…!
What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept?
25/07/2026@Waakiye
Hey…
I hope all of you are doing well…!
Haha
This prompt came at the right time and hit me like a freight truck…!
There are numerous promises that we make to ourselves and we wish that we would keep it forever,
But,
I believe it’s common that something comes up and deviates us from this path that we have decided in our minds…!
And,
Those moments,
Those instances are tests that we have to overcome to complete the promises and be the person that we promised ourselves to be…!
And these tests can vary so much that it’s impossible to predict them at all…!
Imagine you go on a diet and tell yourself that you won’t eat direct sugar or consume food that has unnecessary calories,
And,
At that exact moment someone plans a party and all of the dieting is halted for a day and you inhale all of the things that you stopped yourself from…!
Even I am a human,
There are promises and hurdles that I have/had to make to myself and had to break too, to be who I am today…!
One of the most important promises that I have kept until this day is to never stop learning and that has brought me immense pleasure and brought peace to me too…!
It helps me be different from the world in the aspect where people only live their lives and I have lives many in this single one, that too at many stages…!
Other than that I have made a promise to keep posting here every single day and I am happy to tell you that I am trying to be active and putting my time being a better writer each day on multiple apps,
And I am trying to build a personality there too..!
I know it’s hard after putting 10+hours in your business and later having time to process and build your online profile…!
But a promise is a promise right…?
And,
When we break these promises and make new ones we start at a level above from the last time…!
Remember that…!
Cheers to being a better person by making and breaking promises to self..! 🥂
What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?
04/06/2026@Waakiye
Hey…
I hope all of you are doing well…!
It was a fun night as I completed yesterday’s prompt last night before sleeping, and writing about last day…!
I’m at my physio session right now as I’m writing this one and it will be over around 10:30 and I’ll leave for work directly after that…!
There are some important things that I have to discuss at my work and check the material that I have to order this week…!
Other than that, life has been a smooth sail up until this point of time and I hope it stays that way…!
But, I know how things are, once things come on a level that is smooth, it means life is preparing me for a fight later…!
Coming back to the prompt
Something I’d love to see in the future
There is a lot of hope that I have in the near future but one of the things that I want is everyone to be in good health and have enough food to eat and have easily accessible medical facilities if things go south…!
Whenever I see someone who is addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, to a point that he steals or beats people at home to get money, it’s feels like somewhat of a curse on entire humanity…!
When someone is addicted to a point where it takes away their consciousness and pushes them to take whatever means are necessary to get their hands on a bottle or a packet that gives them a temporary boost and that temptation comes back after a few hours…!
The life of an addict is the worst one and if there are help that they can get and be on a path that helps them recover and life a life that they were meant to live instead of being stuck in this survival of sorts…!
The same can be said about people who are stuck in war like situation while we are at ease in our homes living comfortably; For them having even two meals a day is a great deal, and I wish they were no more wars and situations where survival of kids or even adults is hindered;
This seems an impossible feat at this point of time but I hope someday things come to ease…!
And even if there are people who are not in good health, their life matters and their health should be a priority and their life deserved to be saved;
Even if they are in a war like situation or they are living in urban areas comfortably…!
I know these things aren’t possible and I won’t be here to see it until I’m alive by the way things are operating nowadays;
But;
Life is precious and everyone deserves the best treatment;
निकल रहा था मैं उस जगह के आगे से, आते-जाते दिखे सड़क पर वह, मिले वहाँ भीड़, जिस पल आप उसके आगे से निकले;
कुछ लोग आए वहा चोरी के लिए, तो कुछ लोग आए जो आदी उसके, घर बर्बाद कर दिए उस चीज़ ने कईओं के, तो कई अमीर-तरीन लोग दिखे आपको वहा;
कैसी बात है, मिले वहा आपको कई मेरे जैसे लेखक भी, औरतें भी, इंसान जो अभी-अभी १८ के हुए, वह भी जिनकी टाँगें कब्र में, कई मिले आपको बाहर खड़े, तलाश में अपने जैसे लोगों की;
ना दिखी किसी को कोई ज़ात, ना दिखी किसी इंसान ने उसके सिर पर सफेद टोपी, या सिर पर कोई पगड़ी, ना देखे कोई साफ़ा लपेटा हुआ, और ना देखे कोई अगर एक बाल भी नहीं उसके सिर पर;
सब जेबों में से पैसे निकाले, कई अपना फ़ोन आगे कर, क्यू-आर कोड की डिमांड करे, लड़ाई भी हो जाये जब पैसे कम पड़े, गाली-गलोच भी, लात-घूसे भी;
अंदाज़ा हुआ के नहीं…?
कुछ देर बाद, ये देखने के बाद के भीड़ छँट गई है, वह दुकान का शटर उठा ले, और फिर वह हताश भीड़ वापस लौट आए;
कई उतरें महँगी गाड़ियों में से, कई स्कूटर पर से, कई पैदल आए, आता हर कोई ये बात पक्की…
एक सूखा-कमज़ोर, तीली जैसा आदमी भी आए, और सेठ भी, लदी जिनकी उँगलियाँ सोने और हीरे से, चेन भारी गले मैं लिश्कती;
जाऊ मैं भी, और आप भी, तरीके से इस्तेमाल करे तो ठीक है, और वह भी जो नाजायज़ फ़ायदा उठाए, और तबीयत ख़राब कर बैठे, नियत जो बिगड़ी उनकी;
अब तो पहचान गए होंगे आप लोग- के अभी भी नहीं…?
अगर नहीं, तो आपको बाहर निकालकर अपने आस-पास रहने वाले लोगों को देखना चाहिए;
मिल जाएगी आपको आसानी से दुकान, उसके साथ चिप्स-कोल्ड ड्रिंक भी रखता वह, सिगरेट भी, चखना भी;
जी हाँ, लगता है अब समझ आ गया हा आपको——
English translations
A place that doesn’t see any religious beliefs
“I was passing by that place, Saw them on the roads, coming and going, Found a crowd gathered there, Whenever you walk past it;
Some came there to steal, Some came because they were addicted to it, That thing destroyed many homes, Yet you would also see the wealthiest people there;
Strange, isn’t it? You would find many writers like me there too, Women as well, People who had just turned eighteen, And those whose legs were already in the grave; Many stood outside, Searching for people like themselves;
No one saw anyone’s caste there, No one cared for the white cap upon a head, Or a turban resting above it, No wrapped saafa was noticed, Nor whether a man had even a single hair left on his head;
Everyone pulled money from their pockets, Many stretched their hand with their phone forward, Demanding the QR code;
Fights would break out when money fell short, Abuses exchanged, Kicks and punches thrown;
Still haven’t guessed it…?
After some time, Once he saw the crowd had dispersed, The shopkeeper would lift the shutter again, And that desperate crowd would return once more;
Some stepped out of expensive cars, Some arrived on scooters, Some came walking, But one thing was certain, everyone came;
A frail, dried-up man, Thin as a matchstick, would come too, And so would the wealthy Seths, Their fingers loaded with gold and diamonds, Heavy chains glittering around their necks;
I go there too, And I hope you’ve went there too, If used carefully, it is fine, But there are also those who misuse it, Ruining their health, Their intentions already corrupted;
By now, you must have recognized it— Or still not…?
If not, Then perhaps you should step outside And observe the people around you;
You’ll easily find the shop, The one that also keeps chips and cold drinks beside it, Cigarettes too, And snacks to go along with them;
