I have come across the complete story of Malala Yousafzai today. (I have read numerous articles about her and have watched her video-interviews today). To just say that it was inspiring would amount to belittling the impact she had on my mind. She kind of altered my perception of Pakistan completely. I started to develop a  soft corner for Pakistanis - especially for the plight of the girls there - thanks to Malala. Her passion for education, her love and concern for her fellow girl students, her audacity amid adversity, her patriotism towards her motherland, her vision to become a politician, her confidence and faith in herself, her profound understanding of the religion and her innocent-looking cute face make her truly unique. The conviction with which she spoke in those interviews amazed me. The Talibans, who shot her in the head, they can't even be compared to animals, they are Satan's army not Allah's. They are not in the least eligible to even utter the name of Allah.  Allah will never forgive them. The fact that they are doing all this in the name of Allah makes this holocaust even more sinful. Violence inflicted on the innocent and the righteous can never be justified. I pray to the Almighty-my Allah to bless Malala with quick recovery and protect her from all sorts of evil. I heart-fully pray to Allah that she returns to Pakistan as quickly as possible and continue to imbue the minds of girl students there with hope - a hope that one day under the leadership of this wonderful, thoughtful and zestful girl all the Pakistani-girls can go to school, unleash their potential and achieve their dreams.......... insha Allah!

I have learned a very important lesson today: There are a lot of things in this world waiting for us to be explored. Whenever we find some spare time in our daily schedule, instead of passing the time uselessly by watching movies and doing other aimless stuff, if we read and learn new things then we get more pleasure and satisfaction. Till today I was under the wrong impression that one should have interest to read something during free time but I realized that the best thing to do is to start reading even if you don't have the motivation to do so, because once you start reading something new you tend to develop interest in it and in the process you learn a lot. Reading is the best way to know new things and to upgrade ourselves continuously. Knowledge is power indeed and reading is the method of acquiring it. I want to make a habit of 'reading during spare time'. I write this article as a souvenir to my commitment.

language is the best thing our ancestors gave us.......
reading is the best thing we can give to ourselves.............
writing is the best thing we can give to our posterity................  

The urge to write has always been there. But till today I have kept most of  my writings to myself barring a few articles that got published in my college magazine and some essay writing competitions I participated in. From now on I am going to continue with my writing as always but I am not going to keep it just to myself. I will maintain this blog and flood it with all my opinions. I will express my honest views and feelings on almost all aspects which I will come across. I hope I feel proud of this blog when I look back at it sometime in the future. 

             Many sweet memories on the way............

                                                                        with unbridled enthusiasm and intense passion I start.......