Category : Opinions
Dear Men.. I quit, you win!
Whenever I step out of my house alone, I always wonder if I’ll make it back alive or not. Every time this thought crosses my...
A Sneak Preview of One Hundred Buddhas Once In A Lifetime Poetry Book
No one has contributed more to the amazing life and teachings of Gautama Buddha than Satyapal Anand who comes to the realm of English poetry...
Shanakht: Identity of a Poet
Laugh in derision, my readers, but there’s much more than a grain of truth in this comment. What about other arts - music, for example?...
Crime and Punishment
(Originally written in Urdu) Once on every moonlit night He visited me – the angel . the reckoning auditor of all my deeds From him,...
Archetypes of resistance
It is a consensus among the thinkers and theorists that the oppressive structures (like colonialism) are not static rather they are ever-evolving constructs. Every new...
The Path & I
When I stop, the path raises itself a bit Looks at me and says: “Why did you stop? To get rid of me? You know,...
The woman with a shaved head (An abridged draft)
AN ABRIDGED ENGLISH VERSION (See French and Spanish versions also.) “Schmoozing with a head is no-nonsense matter,” She said, and I kept quiet for I...
A Crazy Jane-Jamalo Poem
Yates wrote a series presenting Crazy Jane as a Wise dame. I present Crazy Jamalo as a deranged dame....
Religious Fanaticism
We are a confused generation due to our less direct curriculum. We are developing a factor of narcissism among our generation through the subject of...
Violent or Non-Violent Resistance? A Historical Analysis
Interestingly, one of the books that I am reading these days is 'They Lived Dangerously: Reminiscences of A Revolutionary' written by Manmath Nath Gupta. The...
How we can make psychotherapy work
The charlatanism of a charlatan psychotherapist has nothing to do with the gruesome and grisly killing of Noor Mukaddam in Islamabad. The information available to...
Feminism: A movement to end sexism
I don’t know why a lot of people are afraid of women’s and girls’ rights. So many people send me messages on messenger not to...
Copy paste culture
Stealing the ideas of others is a very common practice these days. In other words, it is also called plagiarism. Plagiarism is about reproducing other...
LUCKNOW; THE LAST PHASE OF AN ORIENTAL CULTURE
During my conversation with Fakhir Hussain, I was told that Sharar had presupposed his readers to be from India not only with a fair knowledge...
AJK Legislative Assembly Elections and Refugees Settled in Pakistan
People in Pakistani-administered Kashmir or Azad Jammu and Kashmir are going to elect 45 Legislative Assembly members on July 25, 2021 and these lawmakers in...
The City of The Blind
Not a soul here To see a lovely phenomenon Like a bud breaking into a blooming smile A baby’s cheek, a flower petal Bedecking itself...
Waiting for the morn
In the last two decades, I have trans-created over 300 of my Urdu poems in the medium of English. ("Translation" would be an incorrect word...
Recuerdo… A Heathrow Heartthrob: The story of a kiss
The baby I caught in midair like a ball. The kid behind rolled over her …safe. Did not cry at all, helped the limping mom...
Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love
That is what the great Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) explores in one of the most stirring passages...
The Path and I
(Originally written in Urdu) When I stop, the path raises itself a bit Looks at me and says: “Why did you stop? To get rid...
