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Being a Daughter… Isn’t Easy

You know… Being a daughter… Isn’t just about being born. It’s about— Carrying your own silence Like a second skin. Nisar Banbhan, a seasoned poet and writer, based in Karachi, the capital city of Sindh shares his poetry Hailing from Village Mir Muhammad Banbhan, Taluka Mirwah, District

The best books on Endangered Languages

Out of 7000 languages on the planet, 700 of them can be found in New York, and many of those are endangered – Samantha Ellis There is usually a lot of violence and displacement in the stories of these languages becoming endangered. The monolingual empire drains the energy from other cultures Samantha Ellis’s book Chopping

We Use People and Love Things

We must stop using people either physically, emotionally, mentally, financially, or in any other way, for our benefit and ego We are social beings. We are wired to love, care, and connect — not to manipulate and discard. Let’s use things, not people. Let’s love people, not things. Aisha Khan The flipped Human

Drowning Souls Strive for Survival

Let us become people who bring towels to the wet, food to the hungry, breath to the breathless — not lectures, not scoldings, not spiritual advice in place of human touch. “Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.” — Rumi By Abdullah Usman Morai | Sweden The

Stop the Tears Before They Fall

In Pakistan, we have been conditioned to see only what those in power want us to see. Our television screens are often filled with stories of state achievements, festive narratives, and political claims of progress. But just beneath this carefully curated surface lies a crisis that continues to deepen, “the epidemic of road