Food for thought

Disclaimer: This article is by no means written to urge people to love tawaifs or celebrate them nor written to bash people but to find out and to understand the answers to the many questions that have wreaked havoc in my mind. If any one of you can answer all these questions of mine logically and explain them thouroughly, I promise I'll change my views. So please hear me out with an open mind, try to persuade me than argue for as Rumi said and I quote: "Raise you words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunder." If you can't provide me with concrete points and change my views and neither could I through this article change yours, then lets agree to disagree. Ever wondered why hearing or reading the word tawaif (courtesan) makes us uncomfortable? The first time I heard this word was in the drama "Mai Abdul Qadir hun" and at that time I didn't know what this word meant so I asked my family, who was watching the show along with me, the mea...

It doesn't matter whether you are someone who cares about the world or are emotionally detached, someone who  judges or is judged,  selfless or selfish,  smart or dumb,  beautiful or ugly, whatever and whoever you are, all you need to do is to accept yourself through and through, so that eventually you are able to accept those around you. The first step to accepting the world is through the acceptance of yourself - the hardest thing to do let me tell you. Accepting the pretty parts is quite easy compared to accepting the dark and the ugly parts of yours and especially those decisions that you think were never yours. Even though, I believe that every decision is ours whether we like to accept it or not because the only thing that is from others is their advices. Many would argue that they never had a choice nor were they given the liberty to decide from amongst those advices rather those decisions were imposed on them. Undoubtedly, that could be the case but at the en...