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Aftab Ahmed Khanzada

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See within; discover yourself

Philippines Author C JoyBell C has written, “I have entered into the darkest regions of myself, bearing torches and lighting candles. I have left a...

20.09.2023 70

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Ancient gods have got a rebirth in Pakistan

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei has said, “I don’t understand how the God who gave me intellect can prevent me from using it. Whatever the...

13.09.2023 70

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Problems are the product of fear

English novelist Rudyard Kipling says, “Of all the lies in the word, the fearsome lies are your fear.” No power in the world can defeat you; you...

06.09.2023 90

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Grand buildings are not built on graves

Post-WWI literature is deeply influenced by Freud’s psychological theories. The first example of this in American literature is Sherwood...

30.08.2023 60

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Man has not changed his instincts

American writer HP Lovecraft has said, “We must recognize the essential underlying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and...

23.08.2023 50

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The idiots and their gaming in Pakistan

Francis Bacon says, “Get intellect first, the rest of the things either you will have or you would not feel their absence in your life.” While...

16.08.2023 30

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Pakistan, a graveyard of questions

Japanese writer Chokodo Shujin has said; “Modern society is facing an existential crisis. People everywhere, on every occasion, talk and shout about...

09.08.2023 100

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Change is bound to happen

In the three-volume book A Scots Quair written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, four thousand-year-old stones are depicted standing against clouds. A scene...

02.08.2023 50

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Never be deceived by the manifestation of existence

Famous astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan in his book, Pale Blue Dot, writes that spaceship Voyager-1 flew in 1977 from Cape Canaveral and is still...

26.07.2023 20

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All evils are the result of ignorance

All thinkers consider crime, sin and evil to be the result of ignorance. They say when a person commits a crime or a sin, it is because he is not...

19.07.2023 60

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Happiness is a journey, not a destination

A uthor JM Green says: “Everyone has a history. What you do with it is up to you. Some repeat it. Some learn from it. The really special ones use it...

12.07.2023 40

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Happiness is journey, not a destination

A uthor JM Green says: “Everyone has a history. What you do with it is up to you. Some repeat it. Some learn from it. The really special ones use it...

12.07.2023 10

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Retain hope

At the age of 40, Franz Kafka, who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she...

05.07.2023 40

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Moral criminals

Alexandre Dumas says, “there is a peculiarity in the wounds inflicted on souls. They hide, but they do not heal, nor do they disappear! They are...

28.06.2023 30

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How to make ourselves worthy of happiness?

Man is an animal first, then a man. He is an advanced animal with intelligence, creativity and aesthetic. A nation that suppresses natural needs is...

21.06.2023 100

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Let’s start living a life that serves others

Ivan Goncharov has said: “When you don’t know what you’re living for, you don’t care how you live from one day to the next. You’re happy the...

15.06.2023 60

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Live a life true to yourself

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She...

07.06.2023 50

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Guilty are us, the sheep — not the wolves

I don’t know how much time has passed, but I have yet to come to the conclusion whether we are sheep or wolves. The more I thought the more I...

31.05.2023 60

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Our failure to bring forth good humans

W H Auden had said if the Greek civilisation had not exited, we would never have become fully conscious. How did the universe originate? What is...

26.05.2023 50

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Rule of the ‘holy’ alliance

In 2021, the Noble Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. He wrote a novel, Memory of Departure, in...

17.05.2023 50

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How nations develop — or fail?

In the history of nations, the rise and fall has always been a mystery and historians have thought a lot on: why does a nation develop? Ibn-e-Khaldun,...

10.05.2023 80

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Your life changes with your thinking

According to Aristotle says, Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Author Arthur Gordon tells of a time in his life when he began to...

03.05.2023 60

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Eliminate the disease, not the symptoms

If you ever happen to visit a bedlam, what you will see will not only be soul-stirring for you, but will also make you ashamed of being a human. Human...

27.04.2023 40

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We are our own killers

Human history cannot be divided into ancient, medieval and modern periods. This division of history was created by medieval thinkers. According to...

19.04.2023 50

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Change is the enemy of the past

According to German historian Karl Von Rotteck, there were three important events in the history of the world: the spread of Christianity; the...

11.04.2023 70

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No greater disaster than greed

Erich Fromm says: “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching...

05.04.2023 60

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For God’s sake, change the scene!

In a cinema house in America, before the beginning of a feature film, a short film is run which successfully conveys a message despite the absence of...

28.03.2023 30

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Why are we trying to save this filthy system?

In 1957, two writers were voted for the Nobel Prize. Albert Camus secured one vote more than what Nikos Kazantzakis bagged and was awarded the Nobel...

21.03.2023 100

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Why are we such laggards?

All of us spend our lives in accumulation of wealth and attainment of positions. For gathering thereof, we tell lies and deceive others. If our...

14.03.2023 70

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Is there no path after day and night?

In the manifesto of the International Labour Orgainzation, which won the Nobel peace prize in 1969, it is written that if you want peace, cultivate...

07.03.2023 30

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Absolute success over evil is impossible

Dostoyevsky would not imagine life without belief. In his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, he writes that goodness and evil are busy fighting each...

28.02.2023 50

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Words are dead

I n the margins of Friedrich Nietzsche’s book, On the Genealogy of Morality, WB Yeats wrote, “but why does Nietzsche think that the night has no...

21.02.2023 80

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The scatter here is too incredible

French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s famous novel Madame Bovary is an epoch-making creation because its heroine Emma Bovary, despite being poor, dares...

14.02.2023 30

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Gateway to justice

In the parable, Before the Law, Franz Kafka represents the law as a physical space. The entire story is about a man who is trying to get through a...

07.02.2023 70

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Injustice leads to destruction

Sigmund Freud says, “Repressed emotions never die, but are buried alive and come out in terrible ways.” Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel-Prize...

29.01.2023 40

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Death is swallowing people

English writer John Bunyan begins his book, Pilgrims Progress, with these words written in 1848: “While wandering through the wilderness of this...

18.01.2023 20

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The vultures and us

Shortly before his death, Franz Kafka wrote a letter with a pencil to his close friend Max Brod, which he received after his death. “Dear Max,...

10.01.2023 40

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Erase all the lies

Portuguese writer Jose Saramago writes: “For the first time as a child, I had a gas balloon in my hand. I was running down a road. I was so happy...

03.01.2023 60

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Don’t let your dreams die

American naturalist Henry David Thoreau said, “Seeing yourself is as difficult as seeing someone without looking back.” Colombian novelist Gabriel...

27.12.2022 90

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