Ubaidullah Pandit (عبيدالله پنڈت)

Ours too was a little story, great one perhaps. I was a sky over her earth, Long before there were the sky and the Earth. But with time’s flipping and flitting, Life grew through our painful separation. In oneness we had put on a cape of good hope, Vying to make East and West meet; Though I brought down skies to sail through her waters, Earth like time again turned out to be a cycle. Upon the coming of each night When the storytellers narrate, Thus love and history writhe and rhyme in pain.

Just when I thought the prices would fall in October, They rose so high that even the dead had to pay. 'What does it take to stop the sale?' I asked God. 'Deeds', He replied.  'Of paper or people, God?' He kept silent while chuckling and chewing. 'Will you only have us when we're six feet  Beneath the ground from head to heel? Won't the autumn colors see the blossoming of almond trees? Will the already long wait have to wait still? Tell me, how to stop the sale?' 'Deeds.' Of paper or people, God?

Our ways were littered with bitter arguments; Most of them were one-way. No. All of them came from my way. So when the hate mail of blames was dispatched To her door, it was refused delivery. I had packed two dozen syllogisms of hate; Years’ worth of love turned into souring sentences; An invoice of our conversations at cross-purposes; When the parcel swelled with overwhelming questions, I sent it along her way, not knowing it was my way.

The recent announcements made by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences are very much rewarding as well as promising. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna will receive the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Just a day earlier on October 6, another woman called Andrea Ghez was named for Nobel Prize in Physics. Their scientific discoveries are as much great and influential as their getting the most prestigious prize is culturally and socially important. In these depressing times it’s news to cherish.  It sends out a very strong message to those who think women are not on a par with men and who stop at nothing to belittle their intellectual abilities. When provided with equal opportunities and resources, women too can contribute to any department of human knowledge including the field of science. Remember in Marie and Malala we have a two-time and the youngest Nobel laureates.  Seen purely from meaning-seeking human perspective and considering science as the modern myth-maki...