My Reflections

It is much before the dawn when I woke up. The magical effect of the hour over powers and sends me into trance. The soothing breeze seeps into body through pores and rejuvenates heart and soul. Chirping of bird is music to the ear, the stillness in the air is comforting and the darkness is not scary rather is precursor of hope. No moment is so magical than the time just before the dawn. The singing of bird : cawing of crow, the cooing of cuckoo, the cock-a-doodle do of hen, sqwaking of parrot are announcing the coming of day. The animals appear to be asleep as if they have adopted human life style. The birds are overjoyed as if celebrating surviving the darkness. Yahi taariki toh hai ghaza-e rukhsar-e sahar Subah hone ki hai ai file Betaab thahr Click on the below link for complete nazm of Faiz https://rekhta.org/nazms/ai-dil-e-betaab-thahar-faiz-ahmad-faiz-nazms Kis Qadar Tum Pe Garan Subah Ki Baidari Hai Hain Talakh Bohat Banda’ay Mazdoor Ke Auqat Hum Se ...

Reading Nadeem Aslam is like living with the characters of his novel. The words keeps echoing, the scene keeps flashing and the characters stay with the readers much after one finishes the book. The author has penchant for detailing scene, event, emotion and expression in his writings. The reader experiences and visualizes Color, smell, sound, pain, fury, cry, smile, and laughter in the course of reading his stories. In fact, the portrayal is so vivid and engrossing that reader is transported to the imaginary world created by writer. Without rousing the sentiments, the author lets readers simmer with the empathy and sympathy for the characters. “Many things in my books come from real life; but a novelist has to be careful in transporting a real event into the landscape of a novel. It is patient work, like moving a lake from one place to another with a teaspoon” writes Naeem Aslam about his own craft. The writer of five novels including “Maps of lost lovers” and “The ...

Book Review - The Party Worker by Omar Shahid Hamid When a cop writes fiction depicting the unholy nexus of crime, politics and religion, the line between fiction and fact is bound to get blurred. The party worker by Omar Shahid Hamid is a realistic crime thriller. After his father was murdered in cold blood he joined Karachi Police as an officer, witnessed crime world from close quarters, survived Taliban’s attack on his office, took sabbatical and decided to write. Omar produced three best sellers one after the other; overshadowing the previous ones. ‘The Prisoner’ is based on the killing of American journalist, Daniel Pearl, the second novel, ‘The Spinner’s tail’ is on root of terrorism within Pakistani society and the third one ‘The party worker’ is on crime and politics of Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. Omar Shahid Hamid, son of slain bureaucrat is currently SSP Intelligence of counter Terrorism Department in Karachi. He studied at London school of Ec...