“I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.” BelieveIdeasSpeakI BelieveDoubtEmotionalReaderRationalEssaysBe ConfidentInvokeUnderratedPersonal EssaysGreat Freedom Author:Marty Nemko
“Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.” WritingYearsBookNumbersAddressesLengthTopicsEssayists Author:Marty Nemko
“If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.” IfsWantAbilityExercise Author:Marty Nemko
“As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.” PlayFailingDrawsInsufficient Author:Marty Nemko
“Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.” PeopleMayResultsBiggerImpactBeing NiceGood WritersPositive Impact Author:Marty Nemko
“Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.” TryingLightCan DoDyingAcceptanceBalanceStrikesRageInevitability Author:Marty Nemko
“The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.” PoliticalCultureCausesPovertyEventsCreationVictoryWeaponsIndiaNuclearPsychologicalIndianNuclear WeaponsPakistanRiotCleansingEthnic CleansingProliferationHavocIndia And Pakistan Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.” ForceHatredIndiaWoundsHealLegacyNationalismHeritageCultural HeritagePartition Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.” IndiaSecularCredibilityKashmir Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.” NeedsIslamicNationalismSecularPakistanKashmirTheocracy Author:Nyla Ali Khan