Writer's Block tgh: About Me

Greetings, fellow Roamans! Lend me your biological listening apparatus.

Oh but why?

My name is Tahir Gul Hasan and I am not a journalist.

I create socio-political satire with fire, throw in bits of science-friction, tell non-returnable truths and hence pay the purifying dues (zakah) in full through my pen.

I started this blog because several years ago a silly website (Chowk) that published most of what I wrote, became arrogant, its ADMIN refused to listen and its visitors turned into abusers and detractors when I—:

Countered their anti-Pakistan propaganda.
Showed them how the rest of the humanity viewed the drying up of the 'American (wet) dream’.
Posted rebuttals to anti-Islam elements.
Opposed or satirized the debauched views of their sponsored 'favourite' spin-doctors'.

Many of those blogs were cyber battles of words; they are now part of my personal history.

Glad to be of service on earth

I was born normally and bred well. After finishing school, I went on to study history, English literature and other subjects at the non-elitist University of Hard Knox.

Widely-traveled, I have written for Pakistani newspapers (Dawn, The Nation, The News), some magazines (Humsafar and Air Safety magazines of Pakistan International Airlines), and the now-defunct Chowk.

Why won't they wake up?

The reason that the bourgeois are chicken-hearted is that they consume large quantities of in-organic farm-chicken. Notice how mostly the poor masses in poorer countries end up protesting and getting beaten up by the police.

I am not a Pakistani with a dual nationality; being just a Pakistani is pure bliss. I shall not have two tongues, a split personality, divided allegiance, confused children or other issues associated with having two passports.

I shall not emigrate, i.e., stay away from the heat of our Pakistani kitchen or vainly hope to change things through mere discussions or paltry remittances of Dollars, Pounds or Riyals.

What shall we do then?

Although life is too short to do all what I wish to do, the important thing is to do something rather than waste time.

Why hasn't the mainstream media discovered me?

Mainstream media editors shy away from printing truthful views such as mine. They would rather have the sheeple read Hollywood gossip and solve crossword puzzles than think hard for themselves. Thinkers are feared simply for their ability to change the human condition.

I wish to thank all the readers for their patient support over the years. As for those who hate me, their hatred is nothing but LOVE whose 'USE BY' date expired long ago.

TGH
15 October 2009
Email: writersblocktgh@gmail.com

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“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." —Oscar Wilde"

Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

—Oscar Wilde

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