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• Opinion > Current Events / Politics
  Media Violence is a Significant Cause of Social Violence

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  A gun whizzes past Nancy’s ear as she starts her lecture. She turns in alarm, but before she can say anything, another pierces her body and she topples over, before being decisively shot in the head. Her students, many of them young kids scream as a fusillade of bullets silences them for eternity....
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  Literary Lapses

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  You know when you walk into the library and everyone stops in the midst of their work and throng to catch a glimpse of your physiognomy, their mouths agape, their eyes filled with wonder and a message of change punctuated in the fresh dribble of saliva produced from their glands as they drool. They ...
• Nonfiction > Travel & Culture
  Of Lahore and Lahoris

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Lahore. The city of charms, love and uniqueness. The epitome of cultural activity. The landmark of history. The capital of the Mughals, the city of gardens and palaces. The hub of literary and sociopolitical activities. Our progenitors used to say “Lahore Lahore hay” (English translation: Lahore...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  O! The Fateful Whims of Fate!

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Evening reigned in the land of sorrow. The birds flew overhead, their harmonious voices synchronizing to form a dirge-like song. Her lachrymose voice seeped through me as it told in words the story of misery, fate and will. I swayed slightly, my tears saturating the barren earth. We started our jou...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Book Lying before Me

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  The book lying before me A voluminous tome of history Of men alive and men vilified Of love and loss, care and misery A boring book, you might say One that brings no joys to day One that stifles search and quest One that hinders; a boring pest But nay, my comrade dear Read your future sprea...
• Fiction > Thriller/Mystery
  The King

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  The moon crawled up, starring in the night script, until it was right above my head. The sight I encountered was ghastly. The ground was being irrigated by the blood of thousands of veterans whose corpses embellished its physiognomy. Their accoutrements were scattered over the vast battlefield. Ever...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A Message

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  As the shadows lengthen And the days begin to darken As night takes up its abode Leaving all to scurry and hasten As love at first sight As Nature with all her might As the tender buds sprout Reveling in the joy of light Eyes fill with tears, legs wobble On crutches does the old man hobble ...
• Hot Topics > Bullying
  The Worst Form of Bullying

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  People often behave rashly and contemptuously while talking about others. For instance there are a lot of people who, in the process of passing judgment, often utter a hideously discriminated remark. Such people don’t think before speaking. What they consider to be a mot; a witty remark; is someth...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  My Scattered Aim

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Locked in mental combat with those infernal studies, I have a good mind to maneuver into the dock. However, it just happens that I love reading books, and while college may be the devil’s advocate’s doom, it has the one thing that I need to get on; books. I just can’t live without them. But th...
• Hot Topics > Community Service
  Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  This is the truest statement you ever get to read in your life. A lot of people are out there who just sweat about “what will everyone say” about things that concern them. If you need to pull along, just do it without listening to every bothering bumbler. I mean, why should you mess up your life...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  Hijab and the Priorities of our Society

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  “Our eyes shed tears and our hearts are filled with grief, but we do not say anything except that by which Allah is pleased.” The dead body, wrapped in a white sheet, was lowered in the grave, and a mound of earth was piled on the top. People silently stood as the Imam announced, in deep fune...
• Reviews > Book Reviews
  The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  In her breathtakingly amazing début novel, S.E.Hinton, afterwards known as “The Voice of the Youth", delivers penetrating insight in the depth of feelings contained within a teen: a person who is derided by the society on the grounds of defying morality and breaching the societal code of con...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  A Silent Flame

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  The guys at the town’s coffee inn sat, their hands on their knees, conversing with great leisure and ease, as if they were experiencing the most halcyon period of their lives. Their minds wandered elsewhere, their confabulation ranged from the most commonplace subjects to those compared to whom a ...
• Hot Topics > What Matters
  All of us are heroes

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Every teenager striving, struggling, and grappling with the unfair behavior and atrocious attitude of life is another Harry Potter, another Eragon Bromsson, another Frodo Baggins, another Katniss Everdeen, another Peeta Mellark and another Hermonie Granger fighting against the rule of tyranny and op...
• Reviews > Book Reviews
  Annie, Between the States by L.M.Elliott

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  As events radically move apace in L.M.Elliott’s disguised-as-a-story psychoanalysis of the Civil War, the protagonist, a stubborn, hardheaded and obstinate child named Annie Sinclair finds herself caught in the vortex of uncertainty; to dive more deeply in the fantastic world of books where fantas...
• Opinion > School / College
  Modern Education-Killing Curiosity

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein The discrepancy in our modern system of education is the lack of questioning. Today teachers consider delivering the lecture as their greatest priority, and questioning is usually given tertiary importance in the metho...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Take heed, and be not one of them

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Let the dead reside in their graves. The earth has been made a bed for them. A pile of rubble a soft pillow, A shovelful of earth a blanket for them. Friends, relatives and acquaintances alike, Face the future turning away from them. And the souls resting in peace Watch the enshrouded bodies....
• College
  Guide > College Essays
  What it takes to be a writer

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  “A writer,” according to an anonymous personage “is the greatest creation of God. To preserve the sanctity of his title, he must try his best to work for the greater good; by striving, aspiring and inspiring.” The depth of this statement sinks into me whenever I read it. A writer is a marve...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  The 'Real' Change

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Iqbal, the greatest of philosophers, worshipped and admired by the East and the West alike, once said, “Change is the impeccable law of nature and the only constant thing in Nature. The nation which quits pursuing change is wiped from the memories; a bleak landscape everyone looks at and no one ad...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Martyrdom

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Death’s gaze behold me as I lay “We kiss the lips of death and say ‘Warriors die once; cowards die every day’”...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Fall of Wisdom

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  “Shadows. Shadows of a race gone past. Shadows of men tilling out on the field. Shadows from the dawn of time, shadows from the inception of age, shadows; so dark, so deep; they almost dissolve the essence of your soul. Imperfect. These shadows are imperfect. They bear a faint resemblance to the t...
• Opinion > School / College
  My Class, My Zoo

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  According to a hero of yore: School life is the best part of one’s life. His antagonist, not impressed, said: The School as a means of education to me was simply a blank. Today, as I sit in my dingy-basement classroom, listening to my science teacher droning away, I realize the depth and verity of...
• Hot Topics > What Matters
  Just a human...

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Living in an apartment behind my house in a musty, mangled town, is a crippled kid. Not crippled, but mentally crippled. He has been the same since his childhood. And now that he is well-nigh 7 years old, he is still crippled. He can talk, but not meaningfully, he can sense, but not impeccably. He i...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Who am I?

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Emotional distress syndrome. The thing/disease/sensation/malady (I don’t know, whatchamacallit?) has afflicted me before. And it’s afflicting me again. Wonder whether I’ll be able to survive this attack. I had no claim against them. I was just a freakin’ kid at school. Still in my tender y...
• College
  Guide > College Articles
  Hopes high...

  

  By Dynamo, Lahore, Pakistan

  Life is for everyone a strange encounter. A kid conceives life with an altogether different perspective than an adult human being. For him life is a fountain that sprinkles the essence of vitality illuminated with the bands of the spectra, thereby creating a rainbow-like luminescence that enlightens...