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Nawab ud Daulah Nizam ul Mulk Aala Hazrat Shams ud din Muhammad Altamash Hai Khan Bahadur Yar Jung;
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What am I. Continue reading
On rapidly learning children
As with all parents, there is always a desperate fear of the child not learning things at the right pace. Desperate fear. We are conditioned to think and fear the what ifs and the if thens of a child falling … Continue reading
Breaking Horses
The merits of a true education are a complete departure from our basic selves. It is a veneer of polished aspects of our personalities; which are at odds with our wild inner selves. We cover up the rough edges, we … Continue reading
2011 or 2067 or 5771 or 1432
Breaths follow breaths, hours follow hours, sunsets follow sunsets, and time moves on. Absolute and unyielding. It is mindlessly incredible glory, time moves on in a cold calculated unswerving finality that humans just do not have the ability to understand … Continue reading
Vive la Liberte
Showing a candle to Lord Acton’s preeminent solar flares: power is jealous and absolute power is absolutely jealous. So it would seem that power does not only corrupt, power is also jealous and incredibly intelligent. This jealousy is revealed in … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, behaviour, democracy, libertarianism, people, power, society, technology
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Giantism
The giants of our youth will always be bigger than us. For most of us, the idols that we create in our age of naivety are, and will always, be bigger than us. As we gain consciousness of our surroundings … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, failure, heroes, idols, independence, learning, mentor, role model, seed, shadow, success
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Janaza
Millat ka Janaza hay zara shaan say niklay. The collapse of our civilization and the abject slide of our culture and society towards the dung heap of history can be assessed by looking closely at a bevy of different metrices. … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, decline, infotainment, journalism, media, pakistan, society, yellow journalism
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Ignominious entry
As some of you know, I have recently undertaken a mindnumblingly shocking act of utter imbecility. In short, leaving my job cold turkey and shifting to Dubai and looking for greener pastures. The reason would be that my wife lives … Continue reading
Eight and a quarter shudders
It would seem that my life has been changing in more than one dimension. One very important dimension would be the slow and creeping introduction of Bollywood in my life. This would mean that from the average interface of about … Continue reading
Symbols
Paris is a treasure chest for the historian, and for the artist, and for the gourmand, and for the aesthete, and even for the person ready to accept that they will appreciate beauty if they see it. The boulevards, the … Continue reading
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Tagged artists, civilization, constitution, culture, extremism, history, pakistan, paris, symbolism, tolerance, xenophobia
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