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Happy New Year 2020, my global family! I come across many educated people who say religion is the main problem plaguing the earth. As such, they support the idea of banning all religions, albeit hypothetically if it was at all possible. When you engage with such  individuals in more detail, […]

“We Kashmiris may look weary, teary, dreary, shaky, noisy or lazy. That is only a superficial perception, which may fool many. Deep down, we are extremely hardy, tenacious, pugnacious and resilient. Our history is extremely complex. We withstood Alexander’s invasion, as well as repeated invasions of several Mongol chiefs. We […]

“We have been advised universally – supposedly by divine wisdom – through our spiritual texts, self-proclaimed wellness gurus and many wise people – that life means living in the present moment. Constant preaching has been reminding us that, to move ahead in life, we must learn to keep unloading the […]

“Cars waiting at the traffic light, dreaming of Christmas, looking quite weary. Cars running on the road, cursing their impatient drivers, looking quite blurry. Cars crashed on the road, angry at their careless drivers, looking quite teary. Bored frustrated cars, carrying people with jumbo egos, looking quite dreary. Overused cars, […]

“Limited your body may be but not your mind or soul; fly you can anytime, anywhere, like the little bird; grow your wings and away you fly. Open your eyes, look around; all are limited, many feel lonely, many cry; only those with an open mind, unbound and unlimited, are […]

“Every time I lose, I end up on the winning side; in my every loss, I emerge a victor. When I lost my home, I also lost the fear of losing; my loss set me free, I am global. Every time I lost a friendship, I learnt to befriend myself; […]

“Humans come into two main functional types – users and usable commodities. Interestingly, each one of us serves both these functions in many situations of life. We use other people – knowingly or unknowingly – deliberately or inadvertently – and, in turn, are also used by the very same people […]

“They lived in a desert, a desert of time; sometimes cold, sometimes hot. The desert was their new home; the home of their birth was far away, perhaps lost.   They were friends, some lived near and some far; some would fly, some walk. When together, some would hug, some […]

Tümhe׳ suchh maloom thaa, lekin tümne׳ jhooth aur dokhe׳ ka isteymaal kiya; humm tau sakht mushkil mei girr gayey, ab tumm suchh ka samna kaise׳ karoge׳? Tümne׳ aisa kyün kiya? Maloom nahin. [You knew the truth but you used lies and deceit. We plunged in such hardship, how will you ever […]

Many wonder, and some even ask, if and why I love our enemies, have I forgotten what they did to us, have I forgotten history, how can I be such as a fool and so sympathetic towards them when I should instead welcome the time of their redemption? I tell […]