Book Review: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Moderation and minimalism are the art of realizing what amount is barely enough. Digital moderation applies this plan to our own innovation. It’s the way to carrying on with an engaged life in an inexorably noisy world. A few days ago I was wondering to deactivate my social media accounts and leave for a cleanse trip. It’s a radical step that might have walked through your life once or maybe more than once. Somehow I realized how closely I am tied to the vicious social cycle since my work life revolves around it. So I ended up dropping the idea. However, during this process of decluttering, I realized how hard it is to cut ties off and shift towards digital minimalism. And today with this topic we feature Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University who authored Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World.
Cal Newport
Calvin C. Newport is an American non-fiction author and a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He authored eight books including Digital Minimalism. The list includes How to Win at College (2015), How to Become a Straight-A Student (2006), How to Become a High-School Superstar (2010), So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion In The Quest For Work You Love (2012), Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016), The Time-Block Planner (2020), and, A World Without Email (2021).
Review: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
In this profound book, Newport recognizes the battles that countless individuals have with accomplishing balance in their social media use. He brings up that people are unfit to retaliate the urge to not use social media. Cal Newport divides his book into two parts Foundations and Practices, which further divides into focusing on the problems and their solutions.
Foundation and Practices
As Newport clarified, technology or innovation can be an exceptionally valuable and powerful asset. Be that as it may, it can likewise be dangerous whenever utilized for manipulative purposes. We are in a period where web-based media is being utilized to control our consideration at the hindrance of different exercises.
Newport focuses on how the attention garnering social media sites is created. One of the key innovations is the ‘cell phone. ‘ As a result of cell phones, individuals have progressively gotten dependent on the gadget and its distractive nature. With basically every other execution of a program like Facebook, it was not difficult to not utilize it. The distractions are still a part of it.
Digital declutter
Newport draws examples from Amish ranchers to Silicon Valley’s software engineers. He furthermore identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them. Additionally, he shows how they are rethinking their relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline world, and reconnecting with their inner selves through regular periods of solitude.
Newport then shares strategies for integrating these practices into your life, starting with a thirty-day “digital declutter” process that has already helped thousands feel less overwhelmed and more in control.
Final thoughts
So with this book, you can rethink your relationship with social media and prioritize high bandwidth conversations over low-quality text chains, and last but not least rediscover the pleasured of the offline world. So if your phone usage, Netflix binging and Twitter addiction are getting excessively engaging for you. Give this book a read. You might hit the deactivate button quicker!
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FAQ
Cal Newport was born on June 23, 1982, in Los Angeles, California. He earned a PhD after completing his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 2004. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the MIT computer science department.
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Work in Hermit Mode
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- Manage your time in 5 minutes each day.
- Always have a plan.
- Be organized.
- Take care of your physical health.
- Don’t cram.
- Set up a distraction-free study area.
According to Cal Newport, “Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”
Book Review: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Traversing the 1950s to the 1990s and from the Deep South to California, The Vignes twin sisters will consistently be identical. However, in the wake of growing up together in a little, southern African American community and fleeing at age sixteen, it’s not simply the state of their day to day experience that is distinctive as grown-ups, it is beginning and end: their families, their networks, their racial characters. The author has beautifully defined the relation and connection between this duo in her book The Vanishing Half.
Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett is an American writer based in Los Angeles. Her first novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times best-seller. Raised in Southern California, Bennett received an undergraduate degree in English from Stanford University. Moreover, she attended Michigan University for her MFA and also studied at the University of Oxford.
Her second novel, The Vanishing Half (2020), became a New York Times best-seller. Furthermore, the book was also selected as one of The New York Times’s ten best books of 2020.
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Crossing almost 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, the novel spotlights on twin sisters, Desiree and Stella Vignes, who was brought up in Mallard, Louisiana, a – anecdotal/fictional unassuming – community considered by their great-great-great grandfather — subsequent to being liberated by the father who once possessed him — as a selective spot for fair looking blacks like him. “In Mallard, In Mallard, nobody married dark.”
Bennett composes this book unmistakably. After some time, its biases developed as its populace became lighter and lighter, just like how an espresso turns diluted with milk. The twins, with their “creamy skin, hazel eyes, wavy hair,” would have charmed the town’s founder.
Racial discrimination
However, even the lightest of the complexion didn’t save their dad, whose awful lynching by a posse of white men denotes the girls unalterably. Nor did it save their mom from an existence cleaning for rich white people in the adjoining town, and it will not save the twins from a similarly sheltered life if they stay in Mallard.
Desiree and Stella ran off to New Orleans, two hours away, however following a year, the twins dispersed, and their lives parting as uniformly as their once shared egg. Stella became white and Desiree wedded the darkest man she could find.
In conclusion
Weaving together various strands and ages of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett creates a story that is an interesting, enthusiastic family story and a splendid investigation of the American history of passing.
Looking past issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the enduring impact of the past as it shapes an individual’s choices, wants, and assumptions. It investigates a portion of the various reasons and domains wherein individuals sometimes feel pulled to live as some different option from their beginnings.
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FAQ
The author Brit Bennett is about 31 years old. She is born in (1990).
Brit Bennett wrote books, The Vanishing Half, Mothers, Fight of the centuries.
Brit Bennett’s work The Vanishing Half is a historical fiction novel set in the United States. It is her second novel, and it was released in 2020 by Riverhead Books. HBO has picked up the rights to create a limited series with Bennett serving as executive producer.
Brit Bennett was born and bred in Southern California, where she attended Stanford University and then got her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan, where she received the Hopwood Graduate Short Fiction Award and the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers in 2014.
Women Empower Wednesday: The multi talented Maryam Arif
Talents have no boundaries and similarly, talent is not bound with age-limit as well. If you have a hidden talent it will come out at any point in your life. However, for Maryam Arif, it came a little earlier than what usually most kids find their talent. Today it is all about Maryam Arif and her accomplishment as a writer, scientist, and entrepreneur.
Maryam Arif
Hailing from Karachi, Pakistan, Maryam Arif is a 16-year-old talented young individual who is also a writer and an entrepreneur. At the age of 12, she started writing poems for young Dawn and before turning 14, she already wrote 7 books. This particular achievement has made her the youngest author of Pakistan to have written eight books under the age of sixteen. Maryam is also a Goodreads certified author. Along with that, she also runs two Podcasts; New Trends and Live Biology. She is also one of the youngest Pakistani Podcaster to have an international audience on both her platforms.
Maryam was inspired by her mother who was a writer herself. Five of the eight books Arif wrote and published are in the self-help category. Her books include, “Unlimited Power: The secret of achieving more,” “Growth from fears,” “Reasons and morals,” “Make money by Blogging,” and “Top 9 Persuasive Copywriting Techniques” while three are coloring books. Maryam has also written a fiction novel ‘Sour Blood,’ a novel based on a girl who survived murderers in a forest for 10 days.
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She has also published an academic article in the Pakistan Journal of Pharmacology, one of the most cited Journals of Pakistan, in collaboration with the Khan Research Laboratories in Kahuta, Pakistan.
The entrepreneurial journey
Writing is not her only strong forte. Her entrepreneurial journey is also quite admirable. At the young age of 16, Maryam Arif has already started her own successful beauty business store on Daraz, Pakistan’s largest online marketplace.
Currently, she is studying at Askari APS college in Islamabad, She managed her responsibilities alongside her career. She says, “Many people think that it is not such a good idea to focus on too many things, However, if pursue only one field, I would personally, not feel complete.”
Unable to settle for just one thing and always thriving is what gives us the motivation to grow stronger every day!
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Dil Chahta Hai turns 20 with the lesson of strong love and even stronger friendships!
The cult classic Dil Chahta Hai
20 years ago, three best friends went to Goa and that changed the meaning of ‘Dosti’ as displayed in the Hindi film industry. No focuses on speculating which film we are discussing. The cult classic, ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ it is. The film, even following 20 years leaves you cheerful and in tears.
When the movie got released in 2001, I was hardly eight, but I still remember it used to be my father’s favorite movie, and now I can safely say that it is our favorite family movie. From repeating movie dialogues on certain relatable situations to playing songs on full volume and singing them along is something every 27-year-old once did in their lifetimes with Dil Chahta Hai.
The impeccable trio of Dil Chahta Hai – Sid, Akash, and Sameer!
Dil Chahta Hai is a fine illustration of a film with an immaculate and impeccable cast. Aamir Khan, Akshaye Khan, and Saif Ali Khan shaped the trio of best friends from college who had a heartbeat on the thing the other was thinking. Each character speaks to you and is relatable.
Aamir Khan was the smooth ‘Akash’ who infused fun and verve into a rich, commitment-phobic brat, Sid (Akshay Khanna) as his quiet, silent, and brooding friends was his ideal foil. They had contrasting personalities yet they appeared well and good together as best friends.
Saif Ali Khan as Sameer was flamboyant, indecisive, impulsive and the confused entertainer, but turns out to be the most mature one from the group who got between the crossfire among two dearest friends who have a fallout. Each had an alternate condition with the other, yet this triangle is fun to watch every time.
The film marked Farhan Akhtar’s directorial debut and also starred Preity Zinta, Dimple Kapadia, and Sonali Kulkarni.
The life is busy these days and no one really has time for things and being in a pandemic is also quite depressing for the world. The old Indian Bollywood movies from the 2000’s era became my survival kit for the quarantine life. While watching Dil Chahta Hai. I found out certain heart capturing points,
Friendships come within
No matter how far you get, friendships stay! Dil Chahta Hai perfectly summarized friendships for me. Not just the fun parts, the painful parts too. Not every friendship is glitters and gold. Friendship requires effortlessness, patience, and balance. Without these elements, it won’t last forever.
Finding love unexpectedly with a punch!
Musketeering through 2001 vibes, Dil Chahta Hai speaks volumes to this date. This movie made us believe that there is no right timeline for falling in love.
You can fall in love anytime, anywhere and [might be with someone else’s fiance] but if love happens with the right person, no one can take that away.
The trio, Akash, Sameer, and Sid find love in the most unexpected ways and this gives us hope that it can happen to us as well!
Stars recollect memories of Dil Chahta Hai
Preity Zinta termed the feeling of “celebrating 20 years of Dil Chahta Hai” as “surreal.”
Preity writes, “This is surreal, celebrating 20 years of Dil Chahta Hai.” She went on to recall having fun on the set of the film. “I remember Farhan Akhtar telling me that whenever he makes a film, he would love for me to be a part of it. A few months later, we signed on for the movie and we had so much fun on set,” she wrote.
Shankar Ehsaan Loy also shared a nostalgic video along with the cast of the movie,
Meanwhile, Farhan Akhtar shares that he never thought of remaking or release a sequel to the movie. On turning 19, the producer shared a heartfelt post on his Instagram,
And somehow Farhan is right. This movie needs no remake!
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Book Review: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
It is pretty obvious when you dive into the genre of books, you rapidly track down that the profundity of buying ‘extra books.’ And with time you get further and more profound towards your habit of reading. It’s really astonishing when you think over everything, and enjoy the depths of literature in every form. However, today we are going to touch on a book that comes under the ‘self-help’ section of our personal picks. It is ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ by Norman Vincent Peale.
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale was an American minister and author of one of the world’s most broadly perceived motivational orators in the twentieth century. His most well-known book, ‘The Power of Positive Thinking,’ has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide and takes a true way to deal with positive brain psychology.
Review: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
This book is composed to recommend techniques and to give you models which exhibit that you should not be crushed by anything, that you can enjoy a peaceful mind and enduring progression of energy. So that your life can be full of happiness and exuberance.
Life and bad breaks – the problem
Such a large number of individuals are crushed by the regular issues of life. They go battling, maybe sometimes crying, during their time with a feeling of hatred at what they consider life has given them. However, except there is likewise a soul and strategy by which we can handle and even decide those breaks. It is a pity that individuals should leave themselves alone crushed by the issues, cares, and hardships of human life, and it is likewise very unnecessary.
To break the obstacles – the solution
By figuring out how to project the hindrances from your brain, by declining to turn out to be mentally subservient to them, and by directing spiritual force through your considerations, you can transcend obstructions that might overcome or defeat you. You need to be crushed just in case you will be. This book shows you how you ‘will’ not.
3 lessons for positive thinking
- Start with confidence and have a positive approach towards life and watch your problems diminish with time.
- Your world is nothing more than what you think about your experiences.
- In order to live with any worry, first imagine a life without worries.
This book also gives out a message about your attitude that how it determines your entire life. Every problem cannot be solved the moment it happens, but your reaction and attitude towards it change everything.
Be worry-free
Worry can be a major cause of stress and other diseases. What you can do is imagine yourself a few months into the future living worry-free, you will feel better when you open your eyes.
Conclusion
The Power of Positive Thinking teaches you to change your conditions, think differently. Don’t inactively acknowledge unacceptable conditions; however, structure an image to you of conditions as they should be. Hold that image to you and foster it firmly. Have confidence in it, work at it, and you can actualize it in your positive reasoning. If you think in certain terms, you’ll accomplish positive outcomes.
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FAQ
Norman Vincent Peale, the founder of positive thinking and one of the most widely read inspirational authors of all time, offers his renowned faith and optimism formula, which millions of people have adopted as their own simple and successful way of life.
Norman Vincent Peale, the founder of positive thinking and one of the most widely read inspirational authors of all time, offers his renowned faith and optimism formula, which millions of people have adopted as their own simple and successful way of life.
The author and ex-minister of the USA Norman Vincent Peale was from Bowersville, Ohio, United States.
-Concentrate on the positive aspects of your situation.
-Gratitude should be practiced.
-Keeping a thankfulness diary is a good idea.
-Allow yourself to be amused.
-Spend time with folks who are upbeat.
-Make positive self-talk a habit.
-Recognize the sources of your negativity.
-Every day should begin in a pleasant tone.
Thursday Tunes: Black Hour, gathering Progressive Rock fans together!
If anything which is growing on a massive scale in Pakistan is the acceptance of the fact that people are loving multiple musical genres and a lot of them include Progressive Rock, Metal, Alternative Metal, Western Classical, and Fusion. From Takatak to Aam Taateel, from Bayaan to Auj and Kashmir, talent is reaching the ends of cultural bounds. Among those bands, we found Black Hour. A band that spoke volumes through its music and vocals!
Black Hour Band
Hailing from Islamabad, Black Hour is a progressive rock, a heavy metal band founded in 2007. It was first founded by guitarist Hashim Mehmood. After a few lineups changes the band stayed with 4 members for more than a decade.
The band members consist of sibling duo Hashim Mehmood (guitarist) and Daim Mehmood (drummer), along with Salman Afzal (bassist), and Tayyab Rehman (vocalist).
With Tayyab finally becoming the active vocalist for the band in 2008 the band introduced itself and prompted to perform in the local metal circle and garnering attention in Pakistan.
Black Hour Albums
Black Hour released their first Album in 2011 by Yourlabel Records in the United States of America and by Afterwind Records in Pakistan. The album sold more than 10,000 copies worldwide and helped the band acquire recognition both locally and universally.
Furthermore, their second album Sins Remain – released in 2015 – was critically acclaimed from multiple forums and got international recognition worldwide. Black Hour’s music inspiration comes from bands like Guns N’ Roses, Mettalica, Porcupine Tree, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath shows the amount of versatility they can bring into the industry.
Surpassing versatility
Finally, after releasing two English albums Black Hour focused their medium shift from English to Urdu and released ‘Woh Jahan’ considering the acceptance of metal and prog. rock genre in Pakistan, moreover the emerging band culture in Pakistan. With two music videos consists of ‘Aik Nayi Subha’ and ‘Husn-e-Haqiqi,’ Black Hour brought a range of emotions and brilliance to the Pakistani music industry.
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Aik Nayi Subh by Black Hour
The band also performed their single Aik Nayi Subh – originally written by Ibn-e-Insha – in Battle of Bands along with their language single ‘Daulat.’ Both the songs got immense love and appreciation from netizens and audience. The poetry of Aik Nayi Subh by Ibn-e-Insha is strong and performed by the band with grace and power.
Aik Nayi Subh lyrics
Khudko hum is shehar mein rusva na kerenge
Ab tak jo hua kheyr ab aesa na kerenge
Ta subh shabbe mah mein jaga na kerenge
Har morr pe thitken ge na, deewano ki soorat
Har darr pe tujhe ja ke pukara na kerenge
You can listen to the track here,
The band is fresh, already harmonized, and extremely melodic, waiting for the pandemic to get over so we all can resume back to the concert culture! Till then ROCK ON, BH!
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Women Empower Wednesday: The determined soul Asma Tariq
It is the 21st century and women are still culturally bound for many things. Be it the decision of their career, or to decide who to marry, the ‘culture’ already ticks many boxes in a woman’s life. But time doesn’t stay the same for everyone and problems become the hardest mountain to summit. Among all these women fighting against cultures and societal barriers, Asma Tariq is breaking all the barriers and making herself stronger each passing day. Today for Women Empower Wednesday, we feature the struggles and aspirations throughout her life.
Asma Tariq
Hailing from Gujrat Asma Tariq belongs to a middle-class family with uncountable dreams. Growing up in a toxic environment and pressure of getting good grades, all she intended was to become a doctor. She attempted to get into medical college however she failed the test.
Determination over failures
That failure hit her hard; she was insisted to repeat the FSc which she didn’t want to do. And among those painful incidents, her father passed away. She then decided to change her life once and for all. Even though the pressures were real, being the eldest daughter along with a load of expectations, constant emotional breakdowns, yet she was determined.
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Time changes for everyone
Meandering in books and finding answers on the internet she was looking for her motivation sincerely. She started saving money and would listen to lectures about financial independence and take notes of important things. During her graduation – in Chemistry – she wrote some books with others and earned hard money and then wrote her own book “Aas” from it.
Asma Tariq achievements
Asma received an international award along with some national representations. Recently she got Bull Award as a Gujrat Chapter Director from the ‘Startup Grind,’ the biggest international startup community, and became the first Pakistani female who won the award.
Pakistan Leadership Program
In 2020, Asma created the ‘Pakistan Leadership Program’ and trained almost 1000 school and college children from all over Pakistan with the help of the international platform with some university friends. Furthermore, she launched an online WhatsApp classroom for the Rohingya refugees where 200 people are getting basic digital literacy training.
Recognition from the Ministry of Ontario
Asma Tariq is internationally recognized as an Instructor and Trainer by the Ministry of Ontario Founding Member of Bookracci – An organization working for the welfare of students and promoting book culture among them.
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Furthermore, she interviewed 300+ entrepreneurs throughout the world, most are available on Startup Grind. Moreover, she is successfully running a podcast on social and developmental issues on YouTube. Tariq also wrote more than 300 articles for national and international sites and newspapers about social and developmental issues.
Young women like Asma Tariq are an inspiration for others out there who are struggling every day and trying to make a difference in society with their contributions.
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Izat Ullah, the Diana Awards winner 2021 working for quality education for students of Balochistan
Young leaders of Pakistan are now garnering much attention through their exceptional skills and their contributions to Pakistani society. Among leaders like Ayesha Sheikh – the youngest recipient of Diana Awards – who is working on gender-based education programs and empowering women through it, Izat Ullah is a shiny beacon of hope for the people of Balochistan.
Izat Ullah Khaksar
Hailing from Quetta Balochistan, Izat Ullah is a student of Mass Communications from the University of Peshawar. He is among the eight people who won the Diana Awards 2021. The Diana Awards program started in 1999 and it has been awarded to almost 49000 students and young leaders for their exceptional work and contributions to society. Izat Ullah is the first and only one to have won this prestigious title in his state, Quetta Balochistan.
Chirag Educational Welfare Society by Izat Ullah
Izat Ullah founded ‘Chirag Educational Welfare Society’ in February 2017 and has been working for education for over five years. Over 3000 students have gotten their education completed under his welfare society. Currently under his society Izat is successfully running his project “Back to School” where over 200 Afghan refugees are enrolled.
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Corona Hygiene program by Izat Ullah
Furthermore, during the pandemic, he distributed corona hygiene kits to more than 5000 students in 30 schools. He also installed handwashing kits in those schools. Moreover, under the campaign ‘Corona ka Muqabla’ he raised awareness among students.
Every Home Classroom Campaign
Specifically for education, Izat started the campaign ‘Every home classroom campaign’ which worked solely on the purpose to ensure quality education and regular classes being administered in every home with up-to-date stationery.
For the last four years, Izat has helped to provide quality education for school children in Balochistan. He has directly supported over 5,000 young people as a career counselor. He has also devised and developed multiple youth-focused campaigns during the pandemic. These range from ‘Every Home Classroom’ to connect children to education whilst at home, to ‘Coping with Corona’ to raise awareness about staying safe.
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In addition to these achievements, Izat has volunteered with a range of organizations in Pakistan. Moreover, he demonstrated great integrity across multiple leadership roles. He also sets a unique example through his efforts to provide equal opportunity for education to young people.
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Book Review: This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
Fiction books have a different effect on the mind and soul. It speaks volumes, the story resonates with your mind and you can relate to it on so many levels. Despite it being fiction or something which is not true it still has an effect. Similarly, I chose This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens one day while looking randomly at a bookstore. And I thought well how good a celebrity can write? And I was amazed, after turning the last few pages I was left with a wonderful feeling. It is heartfelt, cute, and humorous at many points.
Sophie Cousens
Before becoming a full-time writer, Sophie Cousens writes romantic comedies. She worked as a TV producer in London for more than twelve years. She worked on shows such as The Graham Norton Show, Russell Howard’s Good News, and Big Brother.
Cousens now resides in the UK and balances her writing career with taking care of two small children. Sophie yearns for a time when she can add a special power and wishes for the ability to read books faster than she keeps buying them. This Time Next Year is her debut novel and was widely received by critics and readers.
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Minnie Cooper knows two things with assurance: that her New Year’s birthday is unfortunate, and that it’s all a result of Quinn Hamilton, a man she’s rarely met. Their moms gave birth to them at a similar clinic soon after 12 PM on New Year’s Day, yet Quinn was given the monetary reward for being the first child brought into the world in London in 1990–and the name Minnie was intended to have, also. With karma like that, it’s no big surprise every one of her birthday celebrations has been to a greater extent a fiasco.
Love happens in the most unexpected way
At the point when Minnie suddenly runs into Quinn at a New Year’s celebration on their mutual 30th birthday celebration, she sees just more proof that fortune has kept on preferring him. The attractive, enchanting entrepreneur genuinely appears to have everything—including the ideal sweetheart. Yet, if Quinn and Minnie are from various universes, for what reason do they continue to bump one another? Furthermore, how can it be that each disappointing connection in one way or another appears to leave them both expecting more?
The character development and more
The novel goes in-depth about the characters in a real, original way. Quinn is rich, handsome, and successful, but that’s not all. Sometimes these romcoms overshadow characters like Quinn in the stereotypes but that’s not the case here. He has more in himself which Minnie eventually learns about.
This Time Next Year covers missed connections with fate, love, and emotions packed with a little humor. And should definitely be on your next read list!
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Twitter lauds PM Imran Khan for ‘positive U-turn’ on his previous rape comments
With each passing day, the situation is getting eerie for women. The current femicide happening in Pakistan has shaken the entire nation. Women are unsafe in Pakistan, and there was no positive ray of hope for anyone. Prime Minister Imran Khan, who took the ‘youth vote’ back in 2018 also drawn criticism towards him with his remarks on Axios on HBO.
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that women wearing lesser clothes will have an impact on men as they are not robots, it’s just common sense. He also added that it depends on the society you live in. His statement stirred hatred and anger among Twitter and netizens and it was highly discouraged.
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Imran Khan takes a positive U-turn on previous rape comments
But now after facing a massive backlash from people, Imran Khan has taken a positive U-turn. Prime Minister recently appeared on PBSO News Hour where he clarified his flawed stance on the rising sex crimes in Pakistan and said that Rape victims cannot be blamed for rape. Twitter applauds his stance for taking the ‘right U-turn’ and now hopes that the Domestic Violence Bill 2021 will pass.
Twitter lauds Imran Khan’s positive U-turn
Presently, Twitter users trust the most recent comments from IK as an obstruction against sex crimes and give attackers the reasonable message that they won’t be ensured or pardoned by the state.
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A user tweets,
Frieha Altaf also tweets, “U-turn by the PM! About time! [He is] no longer holding women’s clothing responsible for rape.” Knowing, however, that this would not be enough, she then asked, “Now, can we please make it a priority to PASS the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL?”
A user added a pinch of sarcasm along with the tweet saying,
Since the recent Noor Mukadam case has jolted the nation, accountability and punishment should become the priority considering how unsafe women feel in these dark times.
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