Sahra - Ghani Khan

  Ghani Khan is a well known Pashto poet and his philosophical poetry is liked by many. Despite being controversial in places, its strength and force is undisputed. Ghani speaks to God with frankness of a friend and asks Him many questions time and again. Many a time, he appears frustrated by the obvious social evils and wishes this world to be an ideal one where love, peace, beauty and care prevail for everyone and we can rightly call him GUtopian (Ghani Utopian)! 

  The poem I have chosen for translation and upload describes well his love for Him along with the confusions arising in every thinking mind using logic and reason to explain everything in life.
 

  Sardar Ali Takar has been beautifully singing Ghani Khan's poetry and he has done justice with this one too. Enjoy the poem by clicking the following link.

             

 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“How much more there is now to living!
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there’s reason to life!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of
excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!”

- Jonathan Livingston Seagull -

Some time back, one of my friends gave me this book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull' by Richard Bach. It's a short story of a Seagull who loved flying. This story tells us about the greater meaning of life which is much more than just living to eat and having fun. Anyone having a little time must read this story and get the essence of the true meaning of life which is to break free from the shackles of desires and 'fly'!!

The book can be read by clicking here. 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Roger Larsen has beautifullay narrated this story and can be listened to by clicking following link.

The Video Story

Based on this story Hall Bartlett directed a movie in 1973 in which James Franciscus's voice represented Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. The movie is available online in 9 parts on Dailymotion and its first part can be can be viewed here. 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the Movie

The Lost Reality!

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This Sunday, I came across a man while driving on a busy road of Karachi. He was running and jumping in the middle of the road, least concerned about what was happening to him and around him. He was not bothered about the heavy traffic living in his own world so detached from the reality. I thought about the reality and the mindset he was living with. Reality as perceived by us is surely not what he believes, sees and hears it to be. He must have been thinking in his own hallucinated mind, "Hey! What's wrong with this world? Why don't these crazy people see and hear what I see and hear?" What if we could see and hear what he sees and hears? Is it just an imbalance of the neurotransmitters which leads to the world of delusions, illusions and hallucinations? 

Whatever the cause may be, I do get scared whenever I see a schizophrenic running on a road detached from the reality. Probably I don't want to lose something which we all believe to be the reality!