Other National Politics – The Vigilant Mind
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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”, […]
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Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in. Introduction: Highlighting a sad part about a section of our generation, in many instances, people wait for things, whatever it be, often people just wait for it and put no effort and rely solely on ‘destiny’. […]