What horrible, inhumane environments we have created and called them work environments. I was waiting to meet someone at an office recently and the receptionist asked me to wait while she got me the person and as she turned she fell flat on her face. There was a room full of atleast seven people sitting on their desks and not one of them got up to help her up or offer a kind word. They all just asked indifferently if she was alright and went about their business. She seemed floored by the incident and managed to get up in her atleast 4.5 inches pencil heel and rushed to the ladies room. She had returned by the time I came out of my meeting and her eyes were puffy from crying. I felt so sorry for her but sorrier for all those people working there as this would be their fate as well if they were to fall....
Haven't written in a while and those following my blog would know by now that whenever something disturbing on the world scene happens, I stop writing. Its an irony because usually writers provide solace through their writings while I, lose all power of expression when I am disturbed. And then what is there to write? Follow any newspaper from around the world and there is only one message that you get: Pakistan is rapidly slipping into an abyss! I was born in the 70s and have grown up in the 90s, I have vague recollection of the 80s even though I was not old enough to understand what life under Zia's martial law was like but I have seen relay race of power between Benazir and Nawaz Sharif in the 90s but never in our history have we been so unsafe. Where every person big or small, significant or otherwise, powerful or weak, rich or poor is exposed equally to this invisible enemy. Call it what you might, Taliban, extremist, jihadi, Al Qaeda, seperatist, a murderer by any name is ...
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