Category Archives: Desi Totkay

What did women give their husbands for breakfast in the early morning in a medieval French town?

Imagine a person having breakfast in eighteenth century France, around, say, 1760.                 If you’re at all familiar with France, you’ll probably envision them having a continental breakfast – that is, coffee, chocolate or tea with a roll or some bread, joined perhaps by cheese and cold meats. And yet, how accurate is such a picture? Coffee, after all,… Read More »

The issue of Nishtar Hospital Multan is being discussed everywhere

Several unidentified rotting and decomposing human bodies have been discovered on the roof of Nishtar Hospital in Multan, Punjab. Advisor to the Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Zaman Gujjar found the bodies during a visit to the hospital, after which he ordered cremation of the bodies and issued a notice to the hospital administration to take strict action against… Read More »

Otherkin After Transgender

After reflecting on the “Gender Identity and Rationality” post, there is something that continues to bug me, a shred of doubt burning through my brain. What is it about gender identity that separates it from fringe subcultures like otherkin, soulbonders, and whatever else? Why is one considered socially acceptable (however grudgingly and however rocky history the recognition has), and the… Read More »

Double Shah ! Born in a poor family

Sibtul Hasan Shah did have some college education and a Bachelor of Science degree. Originally a school science teacher until 2005, and a resident of a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Wazirabad, he was born in Koloke, a small town of Sambrial Tehsil, in Sialkot District, Punjab. Later on, he was convicted and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. It was reported in the Pakistani newspaper, Daily Jang,… Read More »

Nowadays, men are surrounded by diseases like tension, depression, heart disease, diabetes, anxiety

A new study shows that anxiety in midlife is associated with factors that increase risk for developing heart disease and diabetes in later life. Among healthy middle-aged men who did not have heart disease or diabetes (cardiometabolic disease), those who had anxiety were more likely to have risk factors that are associated with higher cardiometabolic disease risk as… Read More »