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...
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...
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...
In view of the Jaswant Singh’s recently released book, ‘Jinah; India, partition and independence’ the debate on the Jinah’s reinvented role in the partition goes unabated. While the eminent writers keep writing columns on the subject, following historical facts, I...
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...
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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There are two psychological things that upset people most when waiting in queues. One is any impression of unfairness in the arrangements. The other is the feeling of wasting time. Queuing experts combine mathematics with psychology to focus on these two aspects. Perhaps this...
You can be standing in front of a door of an ATM machine. Someone will brazenly walk right in front of you as the previous person exits the vestibule. He or she will pretend not to see you…until you stop him! The fellow may express his sorrow. He who does not have any...
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For the past several days the media seems to have gone euphoric about the giant leap that was supposedly made by the humanity forty years ago on July, 21st when the man ‘first stepped on the moon’. This is more so because the India’s very first lunar probe is facing a...
The grasping propensity, by virtue of the muscle in the men and animals, shows in humans the tendency to profit by the industry of another without they themselves producing anything, and this is what our commercial system is up to. It is exactly what the bird of prey does...
The modernization of the society would involve social and intellectual change. The watchword is efficiency, which means on one hand, to avert religious and spiritual ideals and on the other hand, to embrace the beautiful ideals of democracy, pluralism, secularism, capitalism...
People that pass much time in the open air and particularly in pure air are said to have the most brilliant complexions and are among the healthiest of people. Hence fresh pure air is the best cosmetic. The high flying birds and birds that pass their time in pure atmosphere...
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Kashmir was burning. The Himalayan paradise would face the worst possible repression at the hands of the Indian armed forces. As if on a killing spree thousands were eliminated. Women irrespective of age were raped and property worth billions of rupees destroyed. On that...
The quadruped canine, be it the street dog or any fancy dog, hangs around and responds to your affectionate call when you throw a piece of bread or bone towards it. With the instinct not to be distrustful, it licks your shoes with all the love, affection and indebtedness....
THE CULDESAC OF COMMITTEES. Some people are perpetually in the meetings. When you try to get hold of them, the gloom laden words receive you. ‘He is in the meeting. I can not disturb him’. Or the pompous ‘he is in the conference’. This can mean almost anything....