Price of a glass of water
From the Blog tanveerrauf [image: Waterford-Cut-Crystal-Powerscourt-Port-Wine-Glass-Goblet] Once the king Haroon Rasheed went to see and pay regards to Hazrat Suleiman Bin Harb. After a while Haroon Rasheed felt thirsty so requested for a glass of water. The servant rushed and resented His Majesty with a glass of water. The king instantly brining the glass to his lips and was just was about to drink, Hazrat Suleiman stopped him. He addressed the king, “Your Majesty, tell me one thing before you sip! If this was the *only* glass of water in the *whole wide world*, what price would you be willing to pay to quench your thirst?” Without a second thought the king said, “I surely would give away half of my kingdom for it” Hazrat Suleiman put another question, “What if this water remains in your stomach andpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Paris, I love you – Charlie Hebdo attack and the bottom line
From the Blog raheellakhani I wanted to write whole argument on why people think that religion is dividing and actually how myopic is our understanding of violence and fanaticism. The reason for addressing these two issues were both the cartoon and the horrific massacre by the terrorists. However, I will skip it for another day as in crisis, we need more time to reflect and try to simplify the complex without corrupting the beauty of its complexity. It is the time for analysis, conclusions can wait. The following is a perfect response by a friend and her wisdom: *How can a cartoon or a video destroy and mess with your faith and how can murder save and avenge it?* I would like to include other beliefs such as sexual diversity or human dignity or equality because apparently both the publication house (inpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
A Severed Head starts off the GRP 2015
From the Blog beanbagtales" Books should have themes. I choose titles carefully and the titles in some way indicate something deep in the theme of the book. Names are important. The names sometimes don’t come at once, but the physical being and the mind of the character have to come pretty early on and you just have to wait for the gods to offer you something. You have to spend a lot of time looking out of the window and writing down scrappy notes that may or may not help. You have to wait patiently until you feel that you’re getting the thing right—who the people are, what it’s all about, how it moves. I may take a long time, say a year, just sitting and fishing around, putting the thing into some sort of shape." *Iris Murdoch - The Art of Fiction No. 117, the Paris Review* A depiction of one of the prpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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