The writer is a psychiatrist, author of Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and a Trustee of the Faiz Foundation Trust. He can be reached at ahashmi39@gmail.com and tweets @Ali_Madeeh
Is a doctor prescribing you something because it’s what you need for your illness or because the company that makes it paid for his or her foreign...
Love at various stages of life and how the circle of love grows ever wider
Roughly, 33-60 per cent of the population suffers from depression. That’s literally tens of millions of people. It’s time the spike in cases of...
Why and how do dreams happen?
If writing is a skill, like any other skill, we should be able to learn, practise and perfect it over time
It is not possible to put into words the unique experience of grief and loss in all its myriad forms, yet there are ways to come to terms with it
A young mother in the throes of a severe illness being made a mockery of shows the level of ignorance in our society regarding mental illness
Doctors and all healthcare personnel are terrible at taking care of themselves
What most of us yearn to return to is not a place, it’s a state of mind -- the magical mystical past of our childhood when we were happy and...
From a mild fall evening in November 1985 at Lahore’s Alhamra, the first birthday after his death, the ritual of remembering the people’s poet...