Well Earned Triumph

After much sad news emerging from every corner of Pakistan one becomes completely pessimistic and starts showing the pessimistic behavior to everyone around you. There however come a few winds of happiness that can be spread around to be not only proud of but to cherish. They can also be a way of becoming optimistic once again in your lives.

One such event is the bringing home of that Black man a.k.a ‘Oscar’ by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. She is one lady with her team who shot a documentary over a very grim but strong topic about female acid attacks in Pakistan. I haven’t watched the documentary as yet but I’ve always enjoyed such thought provoking movies whereby Pakistani issues that are known to all but we still tend to avoid them and live in the illusion that we are an independent and a free nation.

Such news are actually praise-worthy and to be proud of and when such contribution comes from a female in our patriarchical society. Such achievements must be encouraged so others in our society could actually work upon empowering their females at home and open up their minds to such issues to not only accept the existence in our society but also to provoke their thinking and actions to work upon them. 

Such movies like Bol, Khuda Ke Liye, and now Saving Face can be a tremendously effective way to not only educate our population but also to start a revolution and changing the thinking and perceptions of conservative populous.