On forgetfulness and loneliness — unique jahan of Mah Zaib and Shay on August 11, 2022It was drizzling initially, then it poured. As he left the hostel and moved towards a nearby hut, he remembered a rainy day when he was flanked by Mah Zaib in the corridor of university. His memory of that day was about how Mah Zaib was feeling the rain, and inveighing that such rainy days […]
Jahan of Mah Zaib and Shay — on sadness and being lost on August 6, 2022Night was falling and darkness was descending upon the refugee village. A wind from the northern side was gently blowing. Mah Zaib was sitting with her mother and remembering past things. The crickets were producing eerie chirps. Mah Zaib asked her mother about her childhood. Like, she asked:” Mother, can you tell me how was […]
On depression and suicide — the unique jahan of Mah Zaib and Shay on August 3, 2022One fine morning, Mah Zaib and Shay are busy with a thought which has been nagging their minds for some time now. The thought is why people take their lives. This question is like a huge field open up to numerous interpretations. ” How are your vacations going in your village?” Shay with a partly […]
In the praise of love — Alain Badiou on love as difference on July 13, 2022I love you but because inexplicably I love in you something more than you I mutilate you – Jacque Lacan When it comes to love, what comes to people’s mind, is a girl friend and a boy friend talking with each other perhaps sometimes titillating each other to glean pleasure. But it is more than […]
On objectification of women on April 23, 2022It is rancid and desperately unpleasant that women face objectification at all levels in society. But what truly precipitates that objectification? If we turn a serious gander at history, we see that history is primarily commandeered by men and women could only be seen as mere objects. The question which rears its head is that […]
When she said, ‘Let’s write a book’ — a moment of innocence on March 19, 2022JJ Rousseau has written somewhere that human beings are internally innocent but what makes them corrupt is the outside world. Innocence has much more and deep meanings than being without a sin and clean in character. Most people think and consider innocence in crime and goodness binary. But it is much more than that. Innocence […]
Philosophy of friendship — what does it mean to be friends? on March 3, 2022Greek dramatist Sophocles once sanguinely wrote, “To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw away your life.” I wonder what is so significant in an honest friend whose throwing away is equal to throwing away one’s life. Lately I have been to Gwadar to attend a book fair. An honest friend […]
Absence of drama and spectacle — a brief study on February 7, 2022“She might be a great person, but life is so much bigger than just loving someone,” writes Kazuo Ishiguro. We often hopefully say this place is great, this thing is great and this person is great. We also say that this field is great and will prove to be propitious for you. This person is […]
On a bench, near the sea, they were talking about what makes human beings so important on January 15, 2022The sky was pathetically blue. English is a very mercurial language. Blue is this colour we always see while looking at the sky but blue has another meaning of pathos. This another meaning of blue is marked by melancholy. However, the sky was pathetically blue and Razzak who was flanked by his yet-to-be girlfriend was […]
A happy new year is a pipe dream so far on January 2, 2022“In short, the true courage is to admit that the light at the end of the tunnel is most likely the headlight of another train approaching us from the opposite direction.” Slavoj Zizek. The happy New Year is little less than circumventing the unimaginable blunders the tech and industrial magnates of the world have done […]