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My Two Cents

Allhumdolillah! I am at a much better place since my last post with series of lab tests, utlrasounds, a mammogram and some other really scary tests, and a gut wrenching anxiety of results. I am doing well thankfully everything was clear except low iron levels with vitamin d3 deficiency. These deficiencies are now on their way to recovery. It is worth noting that I have been struggling with intense brain and physical fatigue since 2019 but not a single doctor was able to identify my problem. Once somebody is diagnosed with depression or anxiety then every health issue they complain about is looked from the psychological lenses. Nobody asked me to check iron, vitamin b12 or vitamin d3 deficiencies even my mum who is a dermatologist always assured me that I am fine and this weakness is just a phase.   It was a phase alright, it engulfed almost 8 years of my life pushed back my career and research ambitions.  This is not the case alone with me but there are many people who silentl...

Day 52

Sham is far more dazzling than authenticity. Shah Rukh Khan was once asked about the on-camera chemistry he shares with Kajol when they are only good friends while the same chemistry lacks in Kajol-Ajay duo who are a real life couple. He replied simply that, camera is incapable of capturing the truth but what it could capture is pure acting . People like camera are only able to see the allure of pretence, alas! There are those who love a good mystery and if there isn’t any they would happily create one. Playing around with ideas, concocting stories and characters; a mere notion then transforms itself into a distorted fact, a fictional reality that would ultimately convulse the truth. But what about genuine mysteries, the unknown workings of some phenomena should we try to solve them or let them be just the way they are, unsolved . Earlier there used to be an urge in me to know everything, to have answers; however, now I don’t allow myself to find or know everything. Through our e...

PAKISTAN RESOLUTION DAY

23 March- PAKISTAN RESOLUTION DAY 23rd March of 1940 a milestone in the struggle of all the Progenitors and great leaders to achieve an independent country, Pakistan. The Lahore Resolution or Qarardad-e-Lahore , popularly known as the Pakistan Resolution or Qarardad-e-Pakistan , was presented by A. K. Fazlul Huq and was the formal political statement adopted by the Muslim League at the occasion of its three-day general session on 22–24 March 1940 that called for greater Muslim autonomy in British India, held at Manto Park (now Iqbal Park), Lahore. The Lahore Resolution had been largely interpreted as the demand for a separate Muslim state. Mr. Sikandar Hayat Khan, the then Chief Minister of the Punjab, drafted the original Lahore Resolution. The Resolution was placed before the Subject Committee of the All India Muslim League for discussion and amendments. The Resolution text unanimously rejected the concept of a United India on the grounds of growing inter-commu...