Culture Bashing Cannot go Unabated
Have you ever considered why birds, those little sages of the sky, lurch their heads in abrupt, start-stop spasms rather than simply gliding their gaze? Unlike us, they cannot swivel their...
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The Catastrophe of One Generation: A Cultural Holocaust in the Making
The generation born in the 1980s and 1990s stands as a fragile bridge between a world lost and a world looming - a generation that did not merely encounter modernity, but was engulfed by it. They are...
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Counter Narrative | A Culture that Silences Men or Men with a Culture Silenced?
An article, appearing in Kashmir Observer, laments Kashmiri men’s silence as a cultural flaw, failing to realize that this very critique is shaped by Western therapeutic individualism. It sees...
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A Message to NEET Aspirants Who Gave It Their All
To those who prayed, persisted, and prepared with sincerity for NEET but didn’t make it: know that you haven’t failed. You’ve been tested in a deeper way—a test not of marks or ranks, but of...
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Counter Narrative | Soft Feminism, Hardcore Destruction
A reflection on a post that came to my knowledge Someone posted on facebook, in a noble and thoroughly confused moment, that feminism is a “theory for women to produce” but for men, it’s about...
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Q&A: Past Grief and Struggles
During the process of reflecting on past experiences, particularly the mistakes that led to grief, we surrender before Allah and trust in His wisdom. Despite our best efforts to overcome previous...
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Counter Narrative | The Velvet Knife: A Civilizational Critique of the Sentimental Modernist Discourse on Marriage and Parenting in Kashmir
I A certain article, recently circulated in public discourse, presents itself as a compassionate diagnosis of the ailments afflicting Kashmiri marriages, parenting, and youth. It laments the...
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A Story of Nothingness and Everything in Between
The day was bright but meaningless. The sky stretched overhead, vast and blue, but for what purpose? No one knew, least of all Sull Kaak, who had spent his entire life pondering the great paradox of...
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Pop Culture Mysticism
"Popular culture" is a term we use for the broad spectrum of practices, beliefs, objects, and phenomena that are prevalent in society at a given time, particularly in Western culture since the...
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Q & A: Difficult to be Good Consistently
QuestionAssalam alaikum Sull Kaak. Can you please make a video on how to stay motivated on the right path when everything and everyone is dragging us down. It took me a lot of effort to recover my...