Truemors
DISCRIMNATION, IN RETROSPECT.
(Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed
Every morning a lion wakes up
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are lion or a... 
excuse' moi'
EXCUSE ME, PLEASE "And oftentimes, excusing of a fault, doth make a fault the worse by the excuse; as patches set upon a little breach, discredit more in hiding of the fault, than did the fault before it was so patched."... story of my pen
Many a pen has been picked up by people to relieve the drudgery of a nine-to-five job and/or to give vent to their pent up emotions/feelings. Some would in the process go on to make history. I, for one, picked up my pen, by writing letters to the editor, in the late 1980s... people living around us
‘Khuda wanda teray saadha louh bandhay kahan jaaiyain; Yehan derveshi bhi ayaari ki sultani bhi ayaari.’... asking for impossible
I do not know how many of us have heard of TAS. The first time I came to know about it was during 1980s when I was the student at an Indian premier business school. For a fortnight or so the school campus had been bustling with the life; companies of the repute came rushing... narcotic stupor
On an icy Chilla Kalan evening, the freezing cold congeals drains ditches, cesspools and even the famous Dal Lake. ‘Kot koush’ freezes the successive drops trickling from the point of attachment into the glassy icicles of tapering formation. The vast expanses of the white... on to celeberate id
As the faithful finish with the shab-e-qadr (equivalent to 1000 nights as per Quran) the zealotry of the faithful for Ramzan is suddenly on wane……it even takes a 180 degree turn. For here after, it is only the id preparations that the people will be busy with. The mad... ramadan nimazees
As the faithful glue themselves to the PTV/ARY on the last (29th) evening of Sha’aban, the 8th month of the Islamic calendar, the Ramzan nimazee is all ears to get to know about the sighting of the new crescent of Ramzan by the Rouiat-e-hilal committee of Pakistan. It is... ramadan freaks
Ramadan, what we normally call Ramzan, is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar based on the cycles of the moon phases. Unlike the Gregorian calendar, the globally accepted calendar, 354 days’ Islamic year means that the Ramzan would occur about 10-11 days earlier each... deceptive appearances
The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night....
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