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Heading Towards Crossroads
Chronologically, this may not have been the first writing. But here and now, the space and time belongs to this. This has been a unique trip of my life. One that didn’t seem to begin and now it doesn’t...
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Awakening: The Dispenser of Destiny
Jana Gana Mana. Most know this as the Indian National Anthem. Enough reason for Indians to mindlessly hum it and for Pakistanis to neither hear it, nor understand it. One loves and another hates it;...
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Sunflowers & Afterglow
O’ levels, back at school. Fighting with a municipal streetsweeper. He burnt foliage under a tree. I extinguished it with my school bag. He tried explaining that it was his job but I wouldn’t...
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Meeting Nine Years North
Monsoon of 2004. That was the last time I met the valleys at the foot of Pakistan’s North Western mountains. In years that followed, I presumed that the life and commitments I was in wouldn’t allow me...
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Act One | Foundations That Ground Love
I have been trying to write this post for the last few days, but kept scrapping the drafts. Each time I had written, realized I was either too grave or too judgmental. And both are the last things love...
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Act Two | 10′d To Unlock Love
Continued from Act One | Foundations That Ground Love After having scrapped more plans than the years I’ve lived and having denounced more than what an average human believes in a lifetime, here’s what...
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Act Three | The Sky Plan
Continued from Act Two | 10′d To Unlock Love (and Act One | Foundations That Ground Love) Lastly, your key question to my drawing board: “where to put the new foundations…?” Well; you see, they are not...
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Ten Days > Ten Years
“Do you know how to answer a phone?” she asked. Still lost staring at her red curls and white skin, I hesitantly said, “Yes.” “Well then pick the damn phone,” came the reply. November 8, 2000. This was...
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Sheerly Who I Am
“I read your last blog and I don’t know… it’s painful to read. Feels like your suicide note to me. The more I read it, the more it upsets me. You need to re-write it. You’re giving it a name rather...
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An Acquaintance By Compassion
Spoke to an acquaintance whom I first met in a very despaired state three years ago. Rebel and free spirited, yet too buried to fly or belong. Someone who kept breaking, time and again. And my advice...
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Act One | Past The Rat Race
The following writing originally appeared in 2012 under the TBH byline, titled ‘New trends in creating & sustaining competitive advantage’ in Q1 issue of Marketing Review – a quarterly publication...
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Act Two | Tesla, Jobs & Your Gatekeeper
Continued from Act One | Past The Rat Race We live in a world where creativity is a function of CTRL+C, CTRL+V and SHIFT+F7. When you ask the so-called creative people to come up with a concept or...
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Act Three | Headway To The Big Game
Continued from Act Two | Tesla, Jobs & Your Gatekeeper The way we look at anything, changes it. Looking at the new trends in creating and sustaining unsurpassable (not competitive) advantage,...
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(S)Election Day 2013, Pakistan
Originally written and posted on May 11, 2013 in context of Pakistan Elections 2013. All that plays in my head now are bagpipes & drums as I cry & write this. If anyone of you thought that I,...
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Enough For Need, Not Greed
The following words were posted in a comment on Facebook; very likely to be lost in the clutter. My sole reason for putting them up here is for people across the world to read and understand them. The...
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The Puzzled Parrot Faces
An acquaintance, while exemplifying an incident said, “You know I give this example; it’s like when you are solving a puzzle. All the wrong pieces you try to attach; they always have gaps. They cannot...
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Cattle For Lion’s Supper
Quoting from my last post to set the context: “…I walked out alone from that premise. Wasn’t the first time in life and definitely not the last. While others stayed back in servitude to their inherited...
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Matter On The Platter
That which is truth, is bound to pass through all tests. And if truth be it, you need not fear in putting it through a test. But I fail to understand that the moment I put anything to test, you begin...
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A Lifetime Ago, A Lifetime Before
It would be an year in a day. An year since I heard, saw or met a part of me. A part of me so innate, so inseparable that there has never been a day ever since that I have not felt it – no matter how...
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My Seven Cents
These were a few of the many contrasting reactions that I personally, directly, and indirectly received from people who read my writings. “I reread your birthday post again for the third time. I am...
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