Progressive Souls

  Let’s start with paying heartfelt gratitude, respect, and honor to all the women in this country. Mothers who have raised all of us, sisters who taught us what endless love is, daughters who complete every family, wives who bring harmony in every household, and then all-female relatives and friends. The pain you are going through right now is understandable, however, the confusion among your ranks is extremely disturbing. Disorientation in your game plan and your herd mentality is adding fuel to fire. Recent events in our society have triggered a debate, where frustration and anger can be seen in every other hashtag or Instagram post. Prevailing hatred and negativity have overshadowed all relationships, and now the gap between the genders has widened even further. Analyzing the situation we can find multiple layered confusion, irrational sweeping statements, and no solid argument to back it up with. Social media exploitation, hashtags such as #NOTALLMEN # ROTICANWAIT #BREAKALEG a...

  Not long ago, a 10-year-old girl “Farishtey” was raped and murdered in the suburbs of Islamabad. People were deeply affected by the incident, and a major part of the society contributed to the protests supporting the cause. Similarly, a few years ago, people responded to the lynching incident in Sialkot, and the story goes on. Every time something brutal, or inhuman happened in Pakistan, the society came out, not together, in different groups. As a result, the majority of the protestors even today, would not know what happened in all those cases afterward. Fighting for any issue is just like a war. Scattered warriors with different directions would never bring you good results. The social division in our country is so wide and deep-rooted, that it affects everything around us. Our narratives are usually not related to the cause itself; they are targeted at our agendas. During the course of the fight, we often forget the triggering point and take the struggle to a different batt...

  Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón famously known as Frida Kahlo was six years old when she contracted polio. Guillermo Kahlo, her father was diagnosed with epilepsy, after which he migrated to Mexico, where Frida was born. Matilde Calderón y González her mother had depression, and she was cruel and religiously fanatic. The mother and daughter had a bitter relationship, and the household atmosphere was awful. Twisting the knife, her fate presented her with a bus accident, resulting in 15 bone fractures at different places including her backbone, while she was only eighteen. 2020 brought the biggest challenge for everyone alive today. Family members parted ways, friendships ended, and millions of loved ones became memories on the walls. Nevertheless, societies transformed, as humanity fought with an invisible enemy. As members of the global community, we learned many lessons, and trading off your freedom for the greater good is perhaps the most important one. However, the f...

It's hard to describe the feeling of approaching a desert to someone who has never seen one before. You can describe what you see; a fertile landscape, a greenish of land and a slow appearance of trees and shrubs and signs of life. Before, all of a sudden, the dunes with green oasis appear. A sea of golden greenish mix waves that appears to have no beginning and no end cut by road. You can show pictures and write words but portraying that feeling is harder. Perhaps it's one of those things, like seeing the ocean for the first time that you need to experience for yourself. I've approached to visit many countries but never knew that Tharparkar in my own country would all be turned powerful and desolate and imposing. Yet still, the Tharparkar felt different. Perhaps it was the knowledge and tales from our decenters about the Marvi and Mithi who call the Tharparkar home of MITHAAS and respect. The closer it got ...

Jadav Payeng, an Indian living at the banks of Brahmaputra River is one of the world’s most phenomenal human beings. Undoubtedly, he is the living embodiment of a philosophy, which says that one man can make a difference. The forest man of India has planted 1360 acres of forest all by himself. For 35 years, continuously, every day, he planted a tree in the barren part of the island. As the story goes, he found few dead snakes on the shore that had perished in the sun, so he decided to act, and turned the desolated land into an oasis. Payeng’s life is a remarkable example of micro-winning and its effectiveness. Radicalism in the religious and social approach is discouraged all around the world. Nevertheless, human beings often negate the philosophy, when it is a matter of achieving personal goals and self-improvement. Everyone looks for radical changes, immediate solutions and results as if they are making an instant noodle. Mostly, the outcome of all these efforts is disappo...

Every human in this world is continuously trying to understand life as a concept, however, given its nature, it has no fixed definition. In its soul, by its nature and existence, life is an independent entity, operating under independent parameters within independent time and space. Such independence is beyond comprehension for a human brain, and therefore, it requires everyone to respond as it comes, rather wasting time and energy to modify it as per their wishes. Everyone around us, turn by turn, now and then, faces a loss, a tragedy or a hardship, which is a continuous cycle. In order to face post-trauma challenges, one must adopt a theoretical approach. Write down in detail what has happened, and how do you feel about it. Crucial to any treatment is the fact to identify the exact disease. Similarly, you have to confront your emotions and analyze the damage. If the incident involved other people or your own emotional belligerence, identify the reasons which burnt the whole ...