Scenic view is the facade of my home in Azad Kashmir ☔I love winters-I really do-and every thing that comes along, allures me enough to recollect some precious memories I hold on to. There was a time when I was being fascinated by snowfall, but not any more — not enough to run like crazy to any hill station(muree or sakardo or my home town), after being stuck for hours just to have a...
Frosty winters: memoir
Scenic view is the facade of my home in Azad Kashmir ☔I love winters-I really do-and every thing that comes along, allures me enough to recollect some precious memories I hold on to. There was a time when I was being fascinated by snowfall, but not any more — not enough to run like crazy to any hill station(muree or sakardo or my home town), after being stuck for hours just to have a...
کبھی کسی کو مکمل جہاں نہیں ملتا
✍Mundane life events though sound monotonous and ordinary in many ways, yet behold the real secrets of life. These secrets need a third eye to see, a skeptical mind to deem and a persistent pen to write. Sometimes it feels me arduous to pen down exactly what my mind navigates through. It can be a mental torpor or my inability to give words to my thoughts. But it’s a fact I run short of...
Self-Realization (farewell note to 2k18)
Every year’s end treats people differently, there are limitless assortment of hopes need to be fulfilled , unforgettable regrets, goals still need to be accomplished, a strange fear of loosing another year yet a hope of a new sunrise simultaneously. Everyone has memoirs to treasure, a profusion of recollections in terms of good and bad feelings, sad and happy moments, and losses and gains...
Play station (A tribute to APS martyrs )
(Evening )Kiddo: Mama ! Can we go to the fun land tonight plzzz?She: No ,you still have unfinished homework and I’ve still many unfinished chores. Can’t you see?Kiddo: Mama pleaseShe: I said, ‘no’Ughh..ughh(A while later) mama ! Will you buy me a play station this month? , you have promised me that. Talha has ps4 now?She: ‘Beto may be next month’Kiddo: What? (Ap hamesha aisa hi kehti...
Love for Muhammad (SAW) . . . are u sure?
I feel so blessed that in a young age, I developed an interest and tried to built a connection to Prophet SAW. In 7th grade I participated in first Naat competition and stood second. Then subsequently I stayed at the same path and my last participation was few years back when I was doing my masters and I stood first in girls/boys intercollegiate competition. Well, In this journey I found some...
Brave women: Fact or Fallacy
Yesterday evening, while I was making dinner my son (one month to 4 years) came in kitchen to ask what I was cooking. I replied him “chicken pulao”, with a smile because I knew he will be happy to hear this. Eagerly he came in kitchen and we had a slight conversation which eventually exhorted me to write this piece. Please read Hussnain : mama take your hands away from fire, it will...
Beautiful death :(Autumn of life)
Life is beautiful! Can death be beautiful by any facet of wisdom? Have a look! (Photo credit: Abul Hassan Rizvi) Yes You got me right .. Now is the perfect time to witness this beautiful carnage, an incipient fall of leaves is underway which is infact a systematic and cyclic demise of life itself. Why i am saying a beautiful death, is what you will find out in subsequent shots below (taken by a...
“Tolerance” uncovers the magic wand of “Happiness”
Few years back, once my brother (whom I love the most and whatever I am is accredited to him) told me that he was trying to persuade my cute and deft nephew ( Hussain) that happiness is inside a person not outside . I was like what ?? How can the concept be interpreted by a 7 years old…. At that time I even didn’t understand aesthetically what he is actually trying to convey his son...
When the earth quaked (Reminiscence : 8th Oct 2005)
Have you ever witnessed yourself standing at the verge of collapse ?—— Have you ever glared at your death fiercely and returned back exhausted and tattered?— those feelings of “about to die”? —- those wide open hollow eyes escaping death ?— I did. If you want to know read till end , I’ve something momentous to share. Cinematically, consider yourself...