Articles with tag: mental
Fundamentalism and Violence
Khalid Sohail Dec 10, 2007 interacts: 123Human beings are conditioned by their families and communities and violent cultures produce violent people.
Better Living through Chemistry
Ali Hashmi Jun 28, 2007 interacts: 12What would you give for a pill that made you happy or thin or helped erase the pain of losing a loved one?
Alex
Beena Sarwar May 17, 2007 interacts: 6A tall, broad, handsome 21 year old who loved basketball, on the outside he was the same old Alex. But he had become someone he did not want to be.
Militant Liberalism
ahmad hayat May 9, 2007 interacts: 387Do we have liberals amongst us that are willing to carry a Kalashnikov in the name of values of Egalitarianism and Social Justice?
Reflections on the Virginia Tech School Tragedy
Khalid Sohail Apr 25, 2007 interacts: 143In this land of eminent scientists, avant-garde artists and Oscar award winning actors and directors, we also see the worst serial killers and mass murderers. For some their dreams come true and for others they turn into violent nightmares.
Karachi’s Plastic Bag Ban
Zainub Razvi Apr 2, 2007 interacts: 12The ban applies to not just the manufactures and sellers but also the users of the plastic bags. Yes, that means us.
Reclaiming the Middle Ground
Ishrat Saleem Jan 17, 2007 interacts: 53No matter how we try to dissociate ourselves from our Muslim identity, it comes back to us in unexpected ways.
A Humanistic Approach Towards Mental Illness
Khalid Sohail Dec 8, 2006 interacts: 51We need to see a day when people with mental illness can live respectfully and peacefully and do not fear to be persecuted and penalized because of their emotional problems.
Are Artists Really Mad?
Khalid Sohail Nov 9, 2006 interacts: 44Creative people are are more at risk to suffer from mental illness than general population as creativity and insanity are genetically transmitted in the same families.
‘Our Liberals’ and Minority Psyche
farrukh kamrani Jun 22, 2006 interacts: 760Although they enjoy all the benefits of the society, they are the people who do not identify themselves with the majority of the people dwelling the country.
Celebrity Courts and Kangaroo Justice
Farzana Versey Apr 18, 2006 interacts: 116I protest against this abuse of a cause by people like Aamir Khan, for it is gimmicky and counter-productive. News channels are behaving like nautch girls and social butterflies as the nawabs of vigilance. Page 3 justice is the latest fad
London’s Hour of Reckoning
Ozer Khalid Jul 8, 2005 interacts: 502A surreal silence and eerie calm haunts Europe. Yet Londoners display steely resilience in the eye of the terror tiger.
Sanity
Xoheb Sheikh Feb 7, 2005 interacts: 15I was taken aback. The paintings… the craft, the harmony, the beauty in them. And they were made by an abnormal girl?
The Commonality of ’Fundamentalisms’
Beena Sarwar Oct 11, 2004 interacts: 35Lalit Vachani documentary will resonate in Pakistan -- and other societies traumatized by ideologically-motivated violence -- due to the insight it gives into the minds of those involved in organizations that contribute to such violence.
Elucidation from the Loony Side
zuhair vazir May 20, 2004 interacts: 25I am a victim of madness, brought upon by very powerful media. Madness, as you may have realized, is a nature. It has been termed as a disease of the brain but eventually it acquires the attributes of disposition.
Learning in Saffron: RSS Schools Orissa
Angana Chatterji Nov 13, 2003 interacts: 123At the intersections of globalisation and hyper nationalism, Hindutva intervenes, unravelling the fragile fabric of democracy.
