iHaris Bakhtiar

This book contains more priceless knowledge than you think it may. You embark on a timeless journey with Stephen Hawking and travel from the time of Big Bang to the present. It is a classic tale of science from Aristotle to Galileo, Newton to Einstien, and many other genius science heroes who contributed to our understanding of the universe. This book expounds complicated concepts like space-time, expanding universe, uncertainty principle, and string theories in a very easy to read and comprehend way. Intriguing questions like "Could time run backward?" and "Why we remember the past, not the future?" are answered. The book made me realize many things, I'll mention a few.  1. We always think about how much scientists know. Well, they don't know very much. (Of course, they know very much more than us) 2. Scientists are the real magicians. They can find the radius of the earth using the shadow of a stick on the earth. 3. Stephen Hawking has a remarkabl...

If I have to add something to my life to make it more worth living, I would add more 'love'. If more, I would add 'freedom'. If more, I would add more 'devotion' to it. Why live an intense life full of love, freedom, and devotion? Because I think this is the only thing that matters at the end of life - how much intense of a life you lived? "Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly "one must also have freedom, sunshine and a little flower." - Khalil Gibran Whenever we think of 'death', everything else we can think of or have ever thought of falls to dust. Everything settles down like dust on road. One second in air and the other on earth. We always seek something that can remain enact in the face of death. Because we are let free, we feel lost and start drawing artificial lines. How hard it is for one to accept the reality of death. It is always hard for us to accept and face the realities. To stare them in the eyes. Ill...

Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of the East is a “deeply moving saga of love, drama, and heroism”. My father being an admirer of the Bhutto family, we were accustomed to listening to the tales of bravery, struggle, and dedication of Bhutto family to Pakistan. When I picked up this book, I didn’t expect it to be so suffused of drama and information pertaining to Pakistani politics and history. The book is not just an emotional story of a brave daughter of Pakistan but a deep insight into Pakistani, as well as international politics, by a person who was part of the game. Benazir Bhutto, born to a well-known and affluent family of Pakistan, went to Harvard and Oxford to receive her education. Meanwhile, her father, back home, became the prime minister of Pakistan. The then COAS - Gen. Zia - took over the country, established a Martial law, and executed her father due to the fear of his public support. This was the turning point in her life when she was thrust into the game of politics by the ...