Mian Ijaz Ul Hassan

 If for Americans having a good apple a day keeps the doctor away, is it not equally true that sorting out bad apples will also keep the illness away. I say, let Americans eat their apples and Arabs their dates, lest cockroaches win the race A person who is not connected with the state is […]

It is ironic that urbanisation, which had initially created the necessary material conditions for man to have the leisure to reflect upon nature, later acquired a momentum of its own, resulting in the present day mega-cities, and estranged him from nature A considerable part of English poetry, Navid Shahzad argues, is moved by the English

Today the wheel of time has turned the full circle. If man has to survive he must make a new beginning. Instead of studying nature, man should now study man in conjunction with nature It is astonishing that in an obscure corner of the universe there is our planet earth, which is green, gifted with

The president has told us in clear words what needs to be done and also assured us of his great hopes for sunnier days. Today’s weather forecast for tomorrow however is not very good. Heavily overcast with intermittent showers of rain I hardly ever speculate about resurrection or salvation. These are divine matters beyond human

You know a person can actually get hurt in a struggle. I would rather be in a zoo, safe and well-fed rather than taking risks on the street for something so intangible as Peace and Rights Art and literature have a unique power to set things on fire. They have magical attributes, which can move

Ali Imam could hold forth on almost any subject. He was an ‘incorrigible talker’ as he put it himself once. But he was also quite uncompromising. For him to be aesthetic was equal to being moral, clean and good They are all dead and gone on to new hunting grounds. First, Safdar, then Ahmed Pervez,

Is winning important? I think that perhaps it is, when humans are deprived and denied even those needs which separate them from animals. When the rulers are callous about the needs of their own countrymen It is amazing how images, words, appropriate phrases cease to easily usher themselves to the mind when a person ascends

 Every generation has to deal with the errors and misfortunes of its ancestors. The harsh lesson of history is that in order to proceed on to the future a person has to come to terms with the present and cease living in the past. If a Lahori like myself wishes to read a poem that

Those who may have missed the point should know that the satisfaction lies first in the revelation that the doctor was not gang-raped but just raped and secondly that she was not raped 12 times but merely twice. Should that not be a matter of great relief? This winter it rained buckets every other day.