ZARA

I picked this book as the author directly reached out to me and asked to give it a review. At first I didn’t know if I would enjoy it, but when I started reading it, the impressive starter grabbed my attention—“Not “everything beautiful is long-lasting,” and seriously, it was the point where I realised it was my type of book. It was not an ordinary fiction. The beautiful yet realistic line led me towards an imaginative journey in this book. The plot is very simple yet tempting. The story is excellently narrated and pleases the senses or mind aesthetically, and somewhere in the story, I felt the touches of reality; I found something close to actuality, which made it more magnificent. I loved the characters. It is something far beyond the literature zone. When I ended, I came to know that this was all fictitious and the cruel reality still exists out there to deal with. This book is a good escape from reality. Thank you, Beena, for giving us such a wonderful story. Highly Appreciable and...

Covid-19—the fatal virus that made history—has also killed off a substantial fraction of the world’s population as the total cases rapidly climbed globally, and the rest are still in a life-threatening situation. Some of the states have managed to control the situation, including China and New Zealand, while on the other side, the death rate of some ill-fated nations like the United States of America, Pakistan, India, etc., is still high, and they are experiencing night terrors on a day-to-day basis. Moreover, even the world’s hegemon lacked good governance and was unable to switch towards maintaining and retaining influence and coping with the challenging conditions. The worst-hit nations somehow survived and, bit by bit, returned to normal life as the daily cases wind down. Furthermore, deeper conspiracy theories have been emerging and doing rounds since the start of this dangerous disease, which contributed to the huge level of deteriorating the crisis even more. These theories are ...

  The deadly coronavirus disease, which is now officially called COVID-19, actually escaped from the seafood market in Wuhan, China, and is also the hub for China’s booming car parts and accessories exports. It is a real human tragedy as thousands got infected and hundreds lost their precious lives in multiple states after China, while numerous cities are facing lockdown as a result of the dangerous coronavirus outbreak across the world. The virus has been traced day by day since its beginning, and it is spreading so quickly that people’s lives are under threat, cases are skyrocketing, and it has not just remained limited to public health anymore, but it is hurting China’s economy as well as the world economy. The situation got more deteriorated when the Chinese Communist Party found itself more concerned with covering up the story th a n preventing the actual virus.   If we go back a little in history, we come to know that back in 2002, or 18 years ago, China went through the...

Some days back I went to the northern side of Pakistan, which is well thought out as the most scenic side of the country, having all the loveliness, tranquillity, and a serene environment that is at its best to provide peace to the one's state of mind. The rest house where I stayed, the management staff had always stood by to make sure we were comfortable in spite of their own unpleasant conditions. The discriminatory system of capitalism has almost crumbled the societies. There, among caretakers, I found a poor, white-haired old man—bearded, frail, and fragile. He enquired about my profession, and after getting to know, he requested I put his appalling story of village life into a lifelong book, where a single life lives and dies every day. He was living there far away from his family in order to make a living. Upon asking, I was told he was from that backward area where the necessities of life were never imagined, where there was no surety of the next meal, and people’s lives we...