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A woman who takes great pride in  her city Lahore, to her sense of wonder and curiosity, to her new and old ventures and her ancestry. Whether it has been appearing in front of the public delivering wit and laughter or dealing with teachers and cirriculums to establish better teaching methods, whether it is English or Punjabi, whether it is silence or narratives - our guest - Navid Shahzad delivers all. Actor, Author, Public speaker, Educationist - this woman openly professes her romance for the line, her love for self awareness and development and her deep bond with silence. She has recently finished a book called "Aslan's Roar" which means the Lion's Roar - marvelling over the rise of Turkish media, appreciating their deep love for their religion and culture and how beautifully they have incorporated their mythology and values in drama serials. She  also makes an attempt to strike a balance between modernity and Islam and how they can co-exist in this world of extremism and other false 'isms' Navid Shahzad Social Media Handle: Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Navid-Shahzad-1539191726386661/ Give this a listen, and please leave us with a suggestion, rating or review You can subscribe to our podcast on: Apple Podcast Stitcher Anchor Fm Google Spotify

Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla currently serves as Executive Director at The 1947 Partition Archive. Previously, she was an experimental condensed matter physicist and completed her tenure as a post-doctoral researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley, in December 2012. She studied quantum confinement at interfaces that include oxide heterostructures and domain walls in multiferroics. After a 2008 visit to the oral testimony archives at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial she was inspired and began interviewing Partition survivors in 2010. In 2011 The 1947 Partition Archive was born. She has personally interviewed over 100 Partition survivors and rallied volunteers to join in building the grassroots foundations of this people-powered organization. In 1947 her father's family migrated from Lahore to Amritsar on August 14. We spoke about lived experiences, controlled and severed chronicles, pain management, heart break and PTSD , all in the light of the largest human migration in history - the divide of the Subcontinent in 1947. Give this a listen, and please leave us with a suggestion, rating or review  You can subscribe to our podcast on:  Apple Podcast  Stitcher  Anchor Fm  Google  Spotify

Tarik Dervish is an Ayurvedic practitioner, herbalist and yoga teacher trainer. He has been practising and teaching the two subjects in tandem since 2001 and has specialised in raising awareness of ayurveda within the yoga community ever since. He is the current Modules Officer for the British Wheel of Yoga and works with the Helios Foundation, a health charity that supports people living with chronic health conditions. He trains Yoga teachers to teach yoga with an ayurvedic approach and runs workshops in Ayurveda all over the country. His goal is to  help people take control of their health through traditional methods of prevention and management. He runs a clinic in central london and Brighton. He is a contributor to Yoga Teaching Handbook and the recently published Yoga Student Handbook edited by Sian O'Neill. In this podcast we discussed the 5 elements, Doshas, nutrition & diet managment and emotional well-being , all through the lens of Ayurveda. Tarik Dervish Social Media Handles: Website: yogawell.co.uk Email: tarik@yogawell.co.uk

A gratifying and soul searching conversation with Dr. Azra Raza - i was fully immersed in her words that were carefully articulated either with scientific terms or lyrical poetry. Her own life balanced with medical catastrophes and poetic  subtleties. We spoke about her curiosity of existence to her memorizing poems since a young age. She explained to us the different stages of a cancer cell, the different stages of the human heart. Widely peppered with  her favorite verses and couplets, it is a treat to listen to her wisdom, her openness about the failure of cancer treatment, her hope of future treatment and her commitment to serve. Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York, NY. She maintains a busy clinical practice seeing 30-40 patients with MDS and acute myeloid leukemia weekly. In addition, Dr. Raza heads a well-funded, cutting-edge research lab. She is the recipient of multiple awards including The Hope Award in Cancer Research 2012 (shared with the Nobel Laureate Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn). In 2015, she was a member of the Founder Group at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, designing Breakthrough Developments in Science and Technology with President Bill Clinton. On December 1, 2015, Dr. Raza was part of a core group of cancer researchers who met with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss the Cancer Moonshot initiative. Dr. Raza’s research has been published continuously over the last three decades in high profile journals and her book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer’s last will be published by Basic Books on October 15, 2019. Dr. Azra Raza's Social Media Presence https://azraraza.com/ Give this a listen, and please leave us with a suggestion, rating or review You can subscribe to our podcast on: Apple Podcast Stitcher Anchor Fm Google Spotify

The importance of this world, the 'duniya' in the light of Scriptures - What does it mean to live in this world? What is this realm supposed to perceived and taken as? The expectations that we attach to this world, deeply ingrained belongingness that we associate with it. Kulsoom Omar sheds light on many aspects of this world - but primarily highlights how and why we are supposed to be totally awareness of its finiteness, ensuring that we live our lives fully, yet deal with it as if it a vessel to get to the means. Remarkable insight by Kulsoom Omar, do give a listen whenever you can

In her wonderful ways of conversation Kulsoom Omar tells us the importance of remembering Allah, the enrichments of Dua, the ways and means of dua and last but not the least the prime times of making Dua. The single message of our conversation comes alive when Kulsoom explains to us how Dua makes us awake, aware, conscious and mindful of ourselves, our needs and our presence in front of the Almighty.

When a friend suggested Zaheer Saab for 'dhaani', i jumped at the opportunity and it was not difficult to speak to this Legend of Pakistan. Zaheer Alam Kidvai was born in 1940 and witnessed the partition in 1947. In this conversation, Zaheer Saab catalogues many instances from his growing up years, to enrolling in the Merchant Navy, from travels with his parents to his own captaincy across the oceans, from exposure to poetry to exposure to social media. He candidly shares his opinion on the human existence, the best way or not the best way to sail through life, laughter being the essence of life for him whilst he has had his own share of pain and misery. He has been instrumental  in setting up the T2F platform in Karachi and also a pioneer of Multimedia studies in Pakistan.  His interests lie in music, poetry, books and living a life with compassion and understanding. He has been married for over 40 years and is a father to a young lady residing in NYC Zaheer Alam Kidvai Social Media Handles Windmills of my Mind http://kidvai.blogspot.com Koee Mayray Dil Say Poochhay https://koeemayraydilsaypoochay.blogspot.com Twitter : @kidvai

A pertinent and valid concern for all. How do we deal with praise and criticism in the light of our scripture, what the Quran  and Hadees recommend and how it has been dealt with by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

The story of Azmat Abbas Alibhai, who had a stroke whilst sitting with her family on the lunch table - she narrates her story of helplessness, despair, hope and reverse engineering her entire biological system - setting a target of 100 days and achieving what most medical practioners could not. Azmat shares with us the concept of bio-hacking, the essential needs of the body, the struggle of taking charge and the resolve to stick through the mission of recovery. Azmat Abbas Alibhai is a yoga teacher, clinical nutritionist, naturopath, researcher and writer for the Holistic Health Association of the Princeton Area (HHAPA). She has been instrumental in setting up Pakistan's foremost Stroke Support Group and also provides therapy and meditation practises to neurological patients in some of the leading hospitals in Karachi. Azmat's Social Media Handles: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Innergise-344102312932619/ Instagram : innergise.pk Give this a listen, and please leave us with a suggestion, rating or review  You can subscribe to our podcast on:  Apple Podcast  Stitcher  Anchor Fm  Google  Spotify

In our concluding episode with Nadia we talk about Independent choices, pain and healing, purpose and constant learning , element of invasiveness and being open to change, energy sharing and empathy. Nadia tells us about her love affair with language and its’ trappings. The gem of the podcast lies right at the end of the podcast when she beautifully, tearfully and eloquently recites a poem in Urdu by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, called ‘Meray humdum, meray dost’ Nadia Fazal Jamil's Social Media Handles Twitter: NJLahori Facebook : Nadia Fazal Jamil Give this a listen, and please leave us with a suggestion, rating or review You can subscribe to our podcast on: Apple Podcast Stitcher Anchor Fm Google Spotify