On being alone or lonely on April 14, 2019“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company”- Jean Paul Sartre We come to this world alone and are left alone after we pass away but throughout the period in between we yearn for the company of other human beings otherwise many tend to lose their sanity. We want to be […]
Hats off to Jacinda Ardern! on April 6, 2019On 11 September 2001, New York was jolted by attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center located in Manhattan, the economic hub of the USA and Pentagon, USA’s defence headquarters in Washington, In addition to a 10 billion dollars damage to infrastructure, more than 3,000 lives were lost and more than 6,000 […]
Vote — third world’s Bitcoin on March 31, 2019In the world of economics, where the main thrust is on earning it is not surprising to see people from all walks of life, selling themselves. Although this jargon is usually taken in a negative sense but if given a slightly deeper thought, it really makes a lot of sense. This is obvious from the […]
Conquering self on March 24, 2019“Who has a harder fight than he who is trying to overcome himself”-Thomas A Kempis (c 1380-1471) a German-Dutch canon regular (priest). According to the English dictionary, the word ‘conquer’ is a verb which means to take control or possession of foreign land, or a group of people, by force. In a metaphysical sense it […]
Kids – potential adults on March 18, 2019“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”-Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman. Nelson Mandela was so right when he opined that there could be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. We usually tend to think that […]
Equality in inequality! on March 14, 2019With the introduction of biometric verification, whereby a person can be uniquely identified by evaluating one or more distinguishing biological traits including fingerprints, hand and earlobe geometry, retina and iris patterns, voice waves, DNA and signatures; one thing stands confirmed; no two human beings are absolutely alike. The concept of equality does not entail physical […]
The universe within! on March 4, 2019“The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe”-Michio Kaku, Professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York, USA What a delightful feeling it is to hear the first cry of a newborn […]
State & religion on February 24, 2019“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State”- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali […]
Trump-Kim parleys on February 16, 2019“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed” —Mao Zedong President Donald Trump, in his 82-minute-long long State of the Union speech on February 6, expressed positive outcome of the second summit between him and North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, scheduled in Vietnam on February 27-28, 2019. He said that “much […]
Transgender dilemma on February 9, 2019For centuries transgender human beings have been the target of contempt, mockery, hatred, disrespect, and treated in a most inhuman manner that at times surpasses all norms of behavior. What is most horrifying in this matter is that these people are not at fault. According to Chaz Bono (transgender-female to male), American writer, musician and […]