Zainab Riyaz

Lecturer at Central University of Kashmir.
Communication Officer - Sigbi

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

If @PeacePsych_Intl stated some tagged names aren’t part of its MHPSS list, but are still tagged, that’s implied endorsement ,misleading and unethical. Such posts can misguide people seeking help. The org should fix the mismatch.
@ascionline
#Kashmir #Advertising #MentalHealth

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

We need the "Apollonian mask" to keep us from being overwhelmed by the harshness of life. The Dionysian reality is choatic, ego dissolving roar.
The "flowers and lakes" are the necessary lies we tell ourselves to keep going. Do you think we don't see the mask?
#Philosophy #Dionysian #Apollonian

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗ لِّقَوۡمٖ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

(الْنَّحْل)

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There are moments when the gold of the society reveals itself as painted lead. Bernick exalts the fragile idol of his name, performing dark alchemy where he transmutes the 'breathe of others' into a mask. The Indian girl became Bernick's existential mirror- not a mere ship, but the reflection of his hollowed self , where the gaze of the other exposed the abyss beneath the facade.
#ThePillarsofSociety #HenrikIbsen

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

In the quiet constellations of photographed books, gravity pulled me in: 1984 Drawn by curiosity, I opened the digital gates to it's world, only to be struck by a paradox: ​“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
If such claims are false, why do they persist? And if they persist, what does that say about us?
#1984 #GeorgeOrwell #Dystopia

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The moral shadow falls when trust is sacrificed on the altar of career and institutional continuity. Individuals rationalise their silence or complicity. However, Mellema's framework reveals silence as facilitation, inaction as a moral stain, and enabling harm through omission as eroding character. Trust is not abstract, it is a lived experience of another's care. To trade it for favour is to commodify human vulnerability, turning relational ethics into transactional expediency.
#GregoryMellema #Deontology

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Like Ibsen’s Nora slaming the door on illusion, you turn away from evaluation, labeling it's heat as "bullying". One paper already stands open to you, while the others, still private, they reveal their own map : paths that curve into nowhere. There is a profound irony in decrying the storm of review when your own sanctuary is built upon instability. Shall we read those hidden private pages together, or leave them closed behind the door?
#Academics #Data

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

Every insight demand it's tribute. What the mind persues by day descends with it into the cavern at night ; the other becomes the living volume , a shifting labyrinth of margins and volume, and in sleep, the reader stands examined by the very consciousness he tried to decipher . Why does the desire to read the book become the surrender of one's own internal freedom?
#Philosophy #Epistemology

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

Sometimes when "I" and "Thou" share the same tenets of ideology, they enter a state of symmetry.
In this state , the "other" is not a stranger; but a guardian of your own identity. The one who betrays the ideology becomes a traitor. To the one who remained faithful, the traitor’s actions feel like self-mutilation.
#Philosophy #Ideology

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

Shadow doesn’t leave, no matter how fiercely you wish it gone,it is the loyal outline of your own light. Only in complete darkness ,it seems to vanish, yet it remains, unseen. To force it's departure is to extinguish the light that casts it, you cannot remove the dark without erasing the self. If you were to finally cut the string,would you soar,or would you simply cease to be?
#Shadow #Ontology

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The world has always crucified its fools. From Socrates, labelled as silly, to Nietzsche, dismissed as a madman. Society has historically labeled the visionary as obsessed, schizophrenic, naive, or possessed. As Foucault argued, the label of a "madman" is not a diagnosis but a cage used as a tool of power to silence them. Are we truly afraid of the madness, or are we afraid of the clarity it brings?
#philosophy #madman

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To be the "First and Only" is to claim a territory of the mind where no precedents exist. Machiavelli notes that the person is in a position of maximum peril and maximum opportunity, because there are no old laws to govern them,they become the law. To maintain this absolute status, the innovator uses cunning (like a fox) to deceive and the aggression (like a lion) to attack - mastering the duality where they are both the protector and the predator.

#Theprince #Machiavelli #Philosophy #FirstAndOnly

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

Power is never held by one person; it's a web. You grasp the brush as a master, but the subject dictates every stroke. The act of "fighting" them binds you to them, becoming captive to the very image you sought to command.
#art #philosophy

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A proclamation rings out : "Five hundred were saved by my hand and I'll save more, reach out to me"
But true mercy keeps no ledger and virtue is not a ladder for the self. By shouting the count, the act shifts from a gift to a hierarchy- Elevating the 'One' and diminishing the 'Many'.The moment care demands authority, it adopts the very face of tyranny it claims to oppose. Is this a pulse of genuine care, or merely the Will to Power wearing the mask of mercy?
#WillToPower #Nietzsche

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

One who prunes the past to court the present is a sculptor of smoke. You treat your history like a palimpsest, scraping away the selective ink of Gaza and the handshakes of power to present a clean surface to the world. Yet the page bears the trace of its earlier writings, for the parchment remembers the weight of the pen.
Was it ever a belief, or merely a garment worn for the applause of the world?

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

Zarathustra looks into a mirror held by a child and sees not his own face, but a "sneering devil". If you were to stand before the mirror in total silence, stripped of the titles you use as armour and threats you use as walls- what remains? What would you see?
#Art #Philosophy #ThusSpokeZarathustra

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

If your public gospel requires the private destruction of the truth, you aren't a healer; you are a strategist of your own image. Standing at the global podium, the way Raskolnikov stood on his theory, convinced that a mission can wash cruelty clean, but if conscience needs credentials to speak, is it conscience at all, or a well-furnished prison?
#philosophy #crimeandpunishment #morals

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

We have become the 'Last Man' of the system. We despise the dangerous heights of integrity. Instead, we huddle together for warmth in the market of silence. We sell our potential for greatness to buy the happiness of the herd—secure, comfortable, and utterly hollow.

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

Bureaucratic work is always like this, Lieutenant.
"The things you need are never there"
#thewindupbirdchronicle #murakami

[Zainab Riyaz @zaenab_riyaz]

We have witnessed it repeatedly: Suppression of dissent , denial of wrongdoing and governance by fear. Now the same source of these shadows accuses their counterparts as "cracked" and "satanic". To now expect the same source to deliver an honest, objective declaration is to believe that rust gives you purity.
Didn’t the philosophers teach us that the tyrant's loudest accusations are echoes of it's own hidden sins?
#philosophy #shadow