99SharesAuthors: Dr. Asnia Latif, Dr. M. Faisal Amir Malik and Dr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi (Authors’ Note: Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a nineteenth century French novelist. A contemporary of Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt and Emile Zola, among others, he achieved much fame and renown in his life-time. He contracted syphilis sometime in his twenties. In […]
Ali Madeeh writes about Iqbal Bano’s concert at Al Hamra, Lahore in 1986 where she defied dictatorial restrictions and sang Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s iconic ‘Hum Dekhein Ge’ to thunderous cheers. “Jab arz-e-ḳhudā ke ka.abe se/sab but uThvā.e jā.eñge/ ham ahl-e-safā mardūd-e-haram/ masnad pe biThā.e jā.eñge”-Faiz Ahmed Faiz I recently witnessed a Twitter spat about a […]
This is Ali Madeeh’s fourth article in our series on Mental Health. In this article he explains the non-medication treatments of anxiety. However, ‘use your willpower’ is not one of the ways he suggests to treat it. “Asking a person with a psychiatric illness to ‘try harder’ or ‘convince yourself to get better’ is the […]
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