Marina Khan

Marina Khan is one of the finest and probably the only genuinely cute female tv artist that we have ever seen with an amazing smile and lovely hair.

It was a treat to watch her in dramas like Tanhaiyan and Dhoop Kinare. I remember she looked great in an otherwise depressing serial Nijaat.

She doesn't act and is not seen on tv much like most of the people in the show biz and entertainment world. She is a genuine animal lover who has been taking care of animals at a personal level since forever.

Homer Simpson's Way

"Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!" ~  Homer Simpson

If only life was THAT simple :)

Love that kills

Wuthering Heights has been one of my favourite books. I have always been inspired by the love of Heathcliff. It is not just intense, but also very pure. He might be a bad guy in the book but his love is definitely genuine. Although it’s unrequited love but I still can’t say that I can relate to it. Anyway I was going through the passages that I marked & I just couldn’t help putting them on the blog. I hope you like them:

“I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; & in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you – oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”


“The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, & that I have lost her.”

I have been thinking that unrequited love does a lot of damage but what about the love that is returned? What about the love that is unconditional & pure? Yeah I’m referring to the love of animals. I don’t think anything could be compared to that. It even surpasses the real meaning of love.

And when they die, they leave a hole in your heart. And there can never be a substitute for anyone. Each individual or being is unique. No one can replace anyone I suppose. And if someone can, then it’s not love. Or maybe you grow out of love.

I’m very sorry to say but it’s the kind of emotion that hurts terribly whether you feel it for humans or animals. It almost kills you when the object of your affection happens to be a pet, because they aren’t selfish.They love regardless of your flaws that are prominent to the world.

Who is the savior of strays?

One thing that I find excruciatingly annoying is that people who come to me & ask me to adopt some stray. In the past, there have been people who thought it was their birth-right to drop helpless animals at our house & all these so-called animal lovers have this pain in their heart; they all love to do this big talk about helping animals but in reality, they are only breed conscious.

And I don’t know as to who is spreading rumors about me helping each & every stray in Pakistan. Umar & I already look after 30 cats, & taking care of 30 animals is a huge responsibility. We won’t be seen anywhere doing this fucking big talk. We do what we can. Yeah I know it’s on a very small scale. Maybe one day we might be able to touch our dream & build a proper animal shelter in Karachi. But at the moment, we can’t say anything. Since my big shot father is dead & I’m not married to George Clooney, & I’m also not Amitabh of Sharabi, I can’t help anyone at the moment.

I meet countless people who claim to love animals & yet they don’t look after even one stray. Ever since DHA people came up with this fucking idea of shooting stray dogs, a lot of people think that my brother & I are the solution & we would provide home to every stray in Karachi. Is it solely our responsibility? I have mentioned a couple of times about stray dogs & puppies who have been murdered in my neighborhood. My mom & I used to give them food. We knew the mother of the puppies since she herself was a puppy. I wanted to shift all those strays from this place. We did contact all the people who claimed to be so god-damn loving when it comes to animals but they were of no help. It was all big talk. They are only interested in competitions. No one is ready to take any action.

There are vets in this country & some of them are good. Those who really want to help animals can contact them. You can make blogs in order to help out these strays. You can post the pics of those strays on them & if anyone is interested, then he/she could contact that person. It’s really annoying when you can’t move your ass & yet you want others to do that job for you.

The thing is…we can’t pour compassion into those who are heartless. Fine. But what about all those breed conscious people who never get tired of telling you how much they love animals? And there are some who also hate strays but only love you know the breeds they can’t even pronounce, to begin with. And please I’m not a savior.

Rather than waiting for others to do something for strays, one should do whatever he/she could do himself/herself. If all those who claim to care about animals even provide home to one stray, that would help. But if you’re expecting others to help out & solve the problem than you may wait forever.

And I guess if you’re genuinely interested in a cause, you do something rather than just bothering those who are already doing something.