When the Artist Unravels: A Nietzschen Commentary on March 4, 2020Introspection in life, when coupled with a neurosis gained from a difficult, at times, confusing, childhood, renders its wielder with a melancholy and altogether antisocial disposition. When left uninterrupted for long, and immersed in with a kind of narcissistic glee (later likened to be the ruinous ‘fairy dust’ that ultimately sets one apart from the […]
Our Suffocating Workplaces on February 3, 2020Pakistani workplaces are not entirely — if at all — suited to the comfortable positioning of skilled and talented resources who wish to see to their employment obligations with any measurable degree of professionalism and uncompromising focus. And the reason behind this dispensation is not hard to understand; because it directly has a lot to […]
A richly-deserved tribute on January 7, 2020I seem to remember it clearly; as if it were only yesterday. It was the fourth of January 2011, and for the three days since its much-awaited advent, the new year had managed to usher in a long-awaited bout of merriment for my family. A dear relative’s wedding festivities were about to start, and all […]
When the laboured mind, in instability, laments on December 20, 2019The mind laboured by physical toil, and not emotional refuse (as goes the majoritarian occupation of the species), is not a good channel for creativity. Because the former is symptomatic of a degeneration; of a clouding monotony that risks obsoletion. The latter is the wellspring of creation — an ideation space that desperately awaits an […]
On my particular brand of madness on March 28, 2019I’ve been told that I have always managed to ensnare myself through the intuitive flow of my writing style; through the seamless progression of uncensored thoughts distilled evocatively (and without much care for angered, ruffled-up exigencies) onto paper. But my recent bouts of engagement with all manner of digital marketing-ended readability theorems (a legacy of […]