You are scrolling through social media. Appearing between memes and interests every now and then are a few political posts. Some of these are memes, some comprehensive posts, and some even crisp one-liners. Sometimes you read them; other times, you quickly scroll past them. On another day, a significant incident has taken place. The youth […]
Lypophrenia is a new term that refers to a feeling of sadness without cause, mostly when you miss someone. But, that might not always be the case. It’s a modern slang term. Feeling sad and don’t know why? Vague and numb? Feeling empty? You’ve come to the right place! Continue reading to find the symptoms […]
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Anxiety, lack of confidence, stage fright and nervousness in people before speaking to a crowd are nothing out of the ordinary. The intensity of these phenomena however, differs. Some might be unable to control their nervousness while addressing their class of 20-40, Some might be unable to control their nervousness to a crowd of hundreds […]
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Background For decades and even centuries we have seen women struggle for rights that they deserved but weren’t granted, for safety, recognition, dignity, equality and empowerment in various fields etc. Throughout these struggles, a united mass movement of majority women and men supporting ‘gender equality’ arose, what we called ‘feminism’. However, giving ‘feminism’ a standardized definition […]
“ […] Allah is the best of all planners.” [Quran 8:30, 3:54] We spent a lot of time planning everything out in the previous year. In general, no plan has a 100% success rate but in 2020, the surprising blow dealt to us through a pandemic was a large-scale disruption in a very long time. […]
New Year after New Year, resolutions after resolutions, goals after goals. Some were achieved but some were not. The turning of our calendar page from one year to another resembled a new start. It motivated us to bring changes. Just like how many burn, crumple, or tear their penned feelings, the shifting calendar pages also […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report for the 2008-13 period about non communicable diseases (diabetes, cancers, etc.). In a footnote, they stated that “Mental health disorders are not included here despite the heavy burden of disease that they impose, as they do not share the same risk factors … ” This is often […]
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How far do the boundaries of ‘talents’ go? Or actually, do such boundaries to define talent even exist? Before moving on, let’s pretend that instruments, oration, sports, acting, singing, dancing, photography and any other ‘talent’ that involves physical objects or self-exertion of abilities to give a self-comforting outcome or skill do not exist. Let’s pretend all such […]
A decade. Ten years. 3652 days. 87648 hours. A lot has changed. And by a lot, literally, a lot. So many things are coming to an end now. This month, year, decade, school life. As university life begins, friends will part ways naturally breaking delicate strings grasping sands of youth, things we will realize when […]
The youth these days are largely subjected to various exposures from the society, ranging from appreciation, applause, backbiting, insults, constructive criticism to even hate. Taking the negatives (or, apparent negatives) in hand like criticism, hate etc. Our society has come up with extensive use of phrases like “be yourself”, “don’t change for anyone”, “others opinion doesn’t matter”, […]
