Book Review: 'Kaifiyat'

“Uthh meri jaan! Mere saath hi chalna hai tujhe…” Kaifi Azmi

The book ‘Kaifiyat’ contains a luminous translation of Kaifi Azmi’s verses beautifully done by the translator Rakhshanda Jalil.
The book is a collection of Kaifi Azmi’s poems on the themes of love and women. The  book begins with a foreword by Shabana Azmi talking about his every detail of life, his mannerisms, personality as a  man and as a writer as well.

Book Review: 'The Parrot and the Merchant'

Book: ‘The Parrot and the Merchant’

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 32 Pages

ISBN13 9780143446828

Mantra of Success

When do we fail?

Life has been called a unique combination of success and defeat. In fact, both complement each other. If a person has not tasted defeat, he will not be able to enjoy his success. Another aspect is that the bricks of a person’s success are laid on the foundations of the other person’s defeat.

Perpetual Peace

Peace is a state of balance, which also might construe that it is to strike an equation with two items. When we talk of peace of mind, it is a constant struggle between calm and the storm. As goes a saying in English ‘the calm before the storm’, where the calm and the storm are a part and parcel of one concept; that is, they share a cause and effect relationship. So how do we explain this contradiction in terms of human mind?