We can all be Mandelas (II)
LAHORE:
Mahreen Khan’s brilliant article provides the solution to the problems faced by this disoriented nation. It’s easier to bash and criticise but to take up the hefty task of building anew from scratch — that’s what makes many brave men, cowards and many critics, silent. The need of the day indeed is to realise that reactionary intellectualism will yield nothing but more anarchy. And only a reconciliatory process, based on forgiveness and a new start, will bring us out of the state we are in.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2010.
Mahreen Khan’s brilliant article provides the solution to the problems faced by this disoriented nation. It’s easier to bash and criticise but to take up the hefty task of building anew from scratch — that’s what makes many brave men, cowards and many critics, silent. The need of the day indeed is to realise that reactionary intellectualism will yield nothing but more anarchy. And only a reconciliatory process, based on forgiveness and a new start, will bring us out of the state we are in.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2010.