Raoof Hasan
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Monsters on the prowl
The gruesome and barbaric murder of a 27-year-old girl, Noor Mukadam, in Islamabad just a day before Eid has jolted the city like nothing else could. People still find it difficult to believe that som → Read More
Delusion and destruction
“Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never, in truth, been known to exist. The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what → Read More
Afghanistan on the brink
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot, nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for d → Read More
Of humans (not) being human
Candid Corner“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything – except his own nature.”Henry Miller There has been a spate of incidents of late involving violence, rape → Read More
Afghanistan bleeds. So does the region.
“I want to scream again, and I remember that last time I felt this way, riding with Baba in the tank of the fuel truck, buried in the dark with other refugees. I want to tear myself from this place, → Read More
Dreams taking shape
“In the vacant placesWe will build with new bricksThere are hands and machinesAnd clay for new brickAnd lime for new mortarWhere the bricks are fallenWe will build with new s → Read More
The combat zone
“A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us, therefore, to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.”–John PymAbuse and violence cannot be → Read More
An indictment of crime
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”Oscar WildeWe are living through strange times, unreal times → Read More
The pantomime shows
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus, and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.Men at some time are maste → Read More
The cross we bear
The wobbly and crumbling edifice of justice needs a serious overhaul“’The Prince’ was written by Machiavelli for the haves on how to hold power. ‘Rules for the Radicals’ is written for t → Read More
Of conspiracies and carnivals
“And we know that the hills and the trees, the distant panoramaAnd the bold imposing façade are all being rolled away –Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long betwee → Read More
Cries of anguish, testaments of valour
“The eyes still aglow with a trickle of lightCan see fire raging across the valley of the SinaiBeckoning the hearts to be cleansedAs a new contract may yet be drawnThe rich having em → Read More
On dispensation of justice
“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatise the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion, they will make provisions for the sick and the poor. Air will be r → Read More
The ever-lengthening shadows of time
“In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men that we seem to see in life is a thing of changing lights and lengthening shadows: twilight full of fancies and → Read More
A state held hostage
Candid Corner“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.” --Louis Farrakhan → Read More
Rise of the state
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the → Read More
Taking on the mafias
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and, at last, you create what you will.”George Bernard ShawThere is much drama that is ena → Read More
Let the jackals howl
Raoof Hasan“The sky was dark. The night was black. Obscurity reigned. The gleam of the wolves’ eyes was the only light that came to sight. The howling of the jackal was the only sound to be he → Read More
End of the road for PDM
“You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realise that you → Read More
Pakistan takes a leap into the future
Candid Corner“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find → Read More