I have no trouble remembering the worst day of my life as I write this. I didn’t lose my job, split up with my partner, or forget to get tickets for my favourite vacation destination on that day. Despite belonging to a generation that embellishes as frequently as we breathe, I can state without hesitation […]
Freud began his well-known exploration of depression and its link to aggression in “Mourning and Melancholia”. He theorised that in response to the experience of a loss, the individual internalises the lost object as a way of holding on to it. Depression is used to refer to a melancholic state of mind of an individual. […]
Why Mahmoud Abbas is seeking new ‘powerful’ sponsors To judge US President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Israel and Palestine as a ‘failure’ in terms of activating the dormant ‘peace process’ is simply a misnomer. For this statement to be accurate, Washington would have had to indicate even a nominal desire to push for negotiations […]
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library: Jorge Luis Borges A library, as we know, is a powerhouse of knowledge and ideas. The Maulana Azad Library of AMU in Aligarh is not just that; it is also a springhead of inspiration, hope, liveliness, wisdom, secularism and many other intangible things. […]
What shall I call you my dears? You are beautiful and fragrant flowers Your fragrance I smell, everywhere I go You are bright stars in the sky I see, Twinkling at dark nights, gladdening me. You are beautiful birds, with sweet voice like of a canary, Utterly captivating! Every time, my grieved heart yearns to […]
What do we study for? If somebody were to ask me this question, I would point-blank reply that we study just for money. This is a horrific fact. In our heart of hearts, we know what we are chasing. Through chicanery and sugar-coated propositions, we can make others believe of the ideal propensities we pretend […]
Uncomfortable situations of having to take tough calls for the environment, will unfortunately, but entirely of our own doing, become a regular part of our lives. The scorching heatwave that India has endured over the past few weeks and the massive floods in the eastern part of the country are just another example of the […]
Death, you always play games with me In just a blink of an eye, you are so close to me and as I close my eyes, spread my arms, to hug you, you are nowhere, not anywhere, gone. Leaving me in this pain, a friend now but a cruel friend. Why? What have I done […]
Mahfooz Ahmad Bakshi Today we are worried about tomorrow, and tomorrow we will be worried about the day after. We always fear about the future, so we never let ourselves be contented with the present. Then we roam around looking for priests, molvis, etc, to check if someone has stolen our happiness with the help […]
In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia on July 7-8, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have accepted the painful truth that the West is losing what he termed “the global battle of narratives”. “The global battle of narratives is in full swing […]