Two things cannot be expressed in simple words. One is to narrate the intensity, serenity and blessing of love. Love that gives meaning to life, love that kindles an inextinguishable light of wisdom, goodness, forbearance, tenderness, courage and sacrifice in human beings. Love is God, which creates, sustains and drives our life. Without love, there […]
Naked parade in a naked society
Pakistanis live in a naked society — a society devoid of ethics, laws, justice, equality, enlightenment, brotherhood, peace, patience and prosperity, a society where the minority class of the corrupt in the political-military-feudal tier is fated to rule and enjoy while the majority of simple and sincere people is subject to serve, suffer and die […]
Do not loathe the beasts!
Do not loathe the beasts, as they are very simple and innocent in their methods of killing other animals. They do not take delight in chasing and tearing their prey into pieces by using novel methods of cruelty. Beasts have no comparison with the king of this earth — man — in killings, perpetrating atrocities, […]
Mukhtaran Mai in Mantos eyes
A society where male chauvinism rules, being a woman in itself is a grave crime, rather a sin that cannot be atoned for from birth till death. Even after being killed by relatives, some women in Pakistan cannot be buried in a community graveyard, as their crime (falling in love) is considered very abominable in […]
Ghalib in our age of pain
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” These are the most famous lines of John Keats, which are universally acknowledged as a simple truism. Beauty is imperishable. Imperishability is the quality of nature. Nature is the manifestation of God. God is truth. […]