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...
I opened up
today’s newspaper and the front page of its entertainment pages featured a cover
story about the Indian superstar Rajesh Khanna who left us recently. The next story
was the review of the latest Bollywood movie, then inside on the third page
there was an article on our veteran film actor Nadeem. It is so unfortunate
that our legends who are still with us, who gave the best of their life to Pakistan’s film
industry get such secondary treatment.
There is no
doubt about the fame and the phenomena that Rajesh Khanna was. His films and
his songs shall be remembered till the time there is love for music; so giving
him that front page space is understandable. However, there was no need to
mention an irrelevant movie at the cost of secondary treatment to our own
stars.
If we don’t
respect and own what is our then there is nobody in the world who would give us
that status. I am neither a fundamentalist nor a nationalist but I speak for
fairness. If media with all the power it has is going to promote some B graded
stars of anywhere else leaving behind our own gems then there is no way our
culture and talent is going to be acknowledged by the our own people let alone
the world.
Talking about
the selective media coverage there hasn’t been any reports on the massacre of
Muslims in Burma.
More than twenty thousand humans have lost their lives to the insanity but we
didn’t get to see a single report on that. What we get to see is some X women ran away
with Y in Z village or some politician did or didn’t do something with the same
news being repeated zillion times.
We need to wake
up from the deep slumber that we are in, we need to realize what is important
and what is worthless without any bias or greed for the TRPs.
Yes, I feel very
strongly about these issues and I sincerely believe that they are relevant
enough to be discussed on this forum.
I know past two
posts have been a bit harsh but such things do exist and we cannot just ignore
them. We cannot compel anyone to do what we believe is right but at least we
can talk about it and if even one person understands it then I say our purpose
is accomplished.
Have a wonderful
week…..
Good Night!
Sonya. (Day
333)
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