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Jihad within Jihad

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In amidst of political turmoil in state, at the pick time of election season where all and everyone is in indulge in blame game. I stuck up at year old issue of Jihad. Jihad, most misunderstood, most used and most abused word. Jihad in Islamic sense is word claiming for internal or spiritual purification. It is always considered as ‘Pak’ (holy) in Islamic writings. It is struggle for avoiding, rejecting and destroying internal evils, sins, lust, greed etc. It’s a very powerful word, it fundamentally meant to abide the followers (bande) to the moral codes of Islam and seek eternal peace for soul. Since centuries in Muslim world, people use to keep names of their kids as Jihad, as Christians used to keep it as Grace and Hindu used to keep it as Bhakti. But in recent times, conception of Jihad got diluted. There exists a group of minorities which believes that, Jihad is not only internal struggle but it also an external fight against the forces which threatens the faith and faithf

Multitasking, life killing strategy …

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            I am a designer, a blogger, a research scholar, a friend, a son, a brother, aaaaaaa many things. Many things, many identities, many roles are being adopted (even assigned) by this entity called “I”. Every role has its own nature of demand. Performing these roles at its best is most challenging, most complex and most desirable thing.                       Today every human being is “burdened” with such roles and identities, to navigate between these roles and identities he has adopted strategy what we called multitasking. At single point of time we are doing so many things, for instance updating facebook status while sitting in class, writing assignments with listening music and what not. I feel height of multitasking when people take picture while kissing !!!  The first word which comes up in my mind after looking such snaps is undoubtedly F word…. Kissing is meant for exclusive experience but multi-tasking generation of ours tries to capture that moments and save