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SHEEP

Is it me or the world that it unsatisfied? unlike her,  I don't have a reset button to erase all my faults and start all over again.  Of course I am scared of dying,  from a disaster calculated every day several times by scientist and experts.  Global warming,  Some believe it, the others don't, Some with power, others voices unheard.  Discussing global politics and policies is not how I was planning to start,  but SHEEPS.  Have you ever paid attention to how important SHEEPS are in our lives.  We count sheeps, when we can't sleep.  We call ourselves a herd, when we all tend to blindly follow a particular person or act.  And our silence towards the known faults of our shepherds puts us to slaughter,  because 'A sheep passing a resolution on vegetarianism doesn't matter, until the wolf remains of different opinion and has the power.' (William Ralph Inge) INTERESTING ISN'T IT? My attemp...

DO kameez aur EK patlon

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  Recognising the effects of the second largest polluter on environment and human health. The first time when a baby is wrapped around a cloth to the same plain sheet of cloth resting on our bodies when we die, clothes play a significant role in our lives. It represent one’s emotions, belief, ambitions and enhance their persona. Transcending itself through boundaries, cultures and time, anthropologist refer to them as one’s “social skin.” It provides us an identity as an individual as well as a society.(Andrea Speranza, Traid) [1] Every ornament and cloth we embrace had a significant meaning, a story for all to know, it represented diversity. Vanadana Shiva once said,”Uniformity is not the nature’s way, Diversity is the nature’s way.” [2] Though said in context of seeds it fits perfectly to present how fashion is running in the opposite direction of diversity and following monoculturalism. But this sophisticated understanding of fashion as element of diver...