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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Muharam Ul haram… A month of sorrows and grief. Ashora the 10th of Muharam always begets a vivid recollection of the “incident of Karbala” dates back to almost 61A.H. The recollections never faded out (we can consider it as a “will of God”) due mainly to the mournings, processions, grand orations, and rhymings of “nohey”, by the second largest sect of...
It was not the first time when one of my students asked a question being unable to comprehend the complexities of human behaviour. I can remember well the state of confusion on his face. Well, of course such questions are not a piece of cake to answer. It needs an elaborative understanding. Whenever I tried to reply, I always entered into a dip pit of my own self and lost. Until I struggled to...
Hardly anyone hosting urban population particularly, has not been affected by the interesting dynamics of Pakistani politics since last five Years. After the elections of 2013, and the subsequent jigsaw puzzle between government and opposition has led masses, national and international media to develop variant worldviews. One theory always voiced for a ‘third umpire’ or some sort of...
Amidst all the festivities and echo of national songs from all around, a sound instantly stopped my heart for a moment . Then it thumped for few seconds and then went slower and slower as if heart was in a state of bewilderment whether to beat or not. The sound was from my living area and it was a beat of very melodious and iconic musical composition “DIL DIL PAKISTAN”. I don’t...
Being a mental health therapist, it is difficult to keep yourself completely uninfluenced from mental complexities, especially when you empathize well. Besides dealing with people in hospital settings, observing commoners in houses, markets, especially in public dealing sectors, the most visible behaviour ,if seen cautiously is depression. And if you do a bit of net surfing you will find out that...