Margalla Marauder

Background: I am a student of MBBS at Rawalpindi Medical College. A few months back, due to shortage of attendance in lectures, i was obliged to attend the wards for a week. It was on the 2nd day of that adventure that i was asked to write an essay on the advantages and disadvantages of attending the extra classes. It turned out pretty well. So, here i m posting it... Camping in the Wards Abdullah Bin Khurram                 While imagination is not bound by any limits, and aspirations reach beyond galaxies; while the world in turmoil irks me, and progress seems a faraway goal; while my plans surpass the heroes of the past, and my spirits reject the hurdles of the race; it is, nonetheless, the most difficult task in the world to get out of bed after a peaceful night’s sleep. As the sun shines into a bright ball of fire, devouring all the darkness of the heavens; as the birds sing the songs of pra...

A simple literary essay written a few years back by me, depicting how a varied our perception can be depending on what our thoughts think the whole time. The Beautiful Valley                 At leisure he sat under the shade of an enormous tree, whose long slender branches twisted and turned like arms united to form a thick grey shadow in the vastness of the shining golden-green grassland. As he looked up, deep in thought born out of the book in his hand, his eyes feasted upon the beauty of the vista before him. He smiled at the regal guarding mountains that came down slanting from both sides of the valley. Faraway to the horizon, where the sky fell into the misty Earth, he could see nothing but a snowy peak that rose out of the grey haze, and shone golden-white, majestic above all visible. How breathtaking and “beautiful” the panorama was for the reader…!       ...