A Pause We All Need on March 8, 2024In an era of you snooze you lose a word, pause makes us feel fearful, hopeless, frightful, and downhearted. People feel terrified to pause and take a break by thinking that others might take their place and they will be left behind. But a question pops up here does it in reality mean halting, stopping […]
Philosophy of happiness according to ancient scholars on September 27, 2022Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has quite pithily said, “Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don’t know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a […]
Is it the last century for books? on May 30, 2022Jhumpa Lahiri in her flagship novel namely The Namesake writes, ”That is the best thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” Books can entail radical change in one’s life insofar as books are taken as elixir for life. When reading and flipping through a book one gets a gratuitous opportunity to […]
When you become a stranger in your own home: the sad jahan of Franz Kafka on April 20, 2022We can learn a duniya of complexities from Kafka. His writings are the crude diagnosis of current circumstances. Even though he is a literary man, his writings reflect the political turmoil and confusion of this bumptious and bureaucratic era. American poet WH Auden writes about Kafka that Kafka is important because his predicament is the […]
Man’s Search for Meaning is a book of hope on March 25, 2022When Man’s search for meaning hit the bookstands, and all but sold millions of copies, Frankl named the success of his book as a symptom of the mass neurosis. He said this since the very title of the book promised meaning to life. This suggests what most of us lack is nothing except a meaning […]