"THE TOMATO" is out to add colour & substance to the intellectual cuisine. Chilly & garlic must catch-p to add flavor.

SS is the publisher. No not the Adolf. He is the Sarwar Sukhera of "Dhanak" fame.

Looking for chilly? Dr Maliha Lodhi have had an interview published (Jan MMVII). It was conducted by Mr Sohail Warriach – the chronicler or the high and mighty. Her Excellency Dr Lohdi, our ambassador to the White Hall, was careful and candid. She did compliment Saiyed Mushahid Hussain, being the leading light for her journalistic grooming.

For the reasons, better known to the interviewee, the iconic newspaper of the period. THE DAILY MUSLIM was not mentioned in the dispatch. So was the absence of any reference to Saiyad Murteza Poya: the publisher of the opinion paper. She did however mention, a couple of other publications.

With due deference to good intentions, one must assume, that the magazine editor chilled it out! Otherwise, it would exhibit a very chilly trait. Or, maybe, we should not know the reason/s. and that reminds us of the following.

A busy American Cosmetic Surgeon, tool time out to take his own wife for a dinner date. The keeper of the "inn" lead them to the prime corner table. Enroute a shapely female almost spilled over the medic and invited him to join her.

The wife asked: "Who is she"?

"Just a professional acquaintance", was his mechanical response.

The spouse insisted: "Chose profession; yours or hers"?

The better Chilly ingredient is very apt and very original. It conies from Mohtarma Munni Begum, the famous singer of her own unique style.

She was on a visit to Karachi from her home in United States. Mid-January she was being interviewed by no other than Dr Shaista Wahidi, the anchor of a morning TV Treat. Mohtarma Munni Begum illustrated the stark deference between the two societies, as thus. "Here people are deendaar and there people are eimaandaar"!!!

In spite of the script, Dr Shaista Wahidi repeatedly asks the viewers to name their favorite personality?

A real one came from a young lady. "Does she not have a mirror in her make-up room?”