Hamza Habib
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“What They Never Told Us About Critical Thinking”
We were told to think. We were told to analyze. To solve problems. To “use our heads.” But what they never told us—what they conveniently left out—was that real critical thinking isn’t safe. It isn’t always comfortable. And once you start doing it, really doing it, there’s no going back.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in Education
“The Secret Addiction That Controlled My Life”
I wasn’t the kind of person anyone would expect to spiral. To the outside world, I was composed, efficient, and successful. I held a respectable job in marketing, ran five miles every morning, and kept a tidy apartment in the city. I smiled at baristas, always paid my bills on time, and remembered people’s birthdays. But what no one knew—what I wouldn’t even admit to myself for a long time—was that I was addicted.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in Confessions
“Letters to the Ghost Who Lives in My Mirror”
1. The Reflection That Isn’t Mine Every morning, before the world stirs, I face the ghost who lives in my mirror. She’s not like me—at least, not entirely. Her eyes hold stories I don’t remember living. Her lips curl in smiles I never smiled. She wears my face but carries a weight, a sorrow, that feels like a secret tattoo etched beneath my skin.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in Fiction
“I Failed Math—and It Made Me a Better Thinker”
For most of my school life, math was a monster lurking just beneath the surface—waiting to pounce every time I sat down for a test. I dreaded numbers, formulas, and the cold, precise logic that never seemed to fit into my world of ideas and imagination.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in Education
“Confessions of a Teenage Hacker Who Got Too Deep”
1. The Spark I wasn’t always a criminal. At least, that’s what I tell myself. It started with curiosity—nothing more. I was sixteen, sitting in a cramped bedroom in Newark, surrounded by blinking LEDs, sticky notes scribbled with command lines, and a gaming chair I never used for games. My laptop was my weapon. My battlefield? The Internet.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in Criminal
“How My Family Survived the Partition of India—And What We Lost”
1. The Smoke Before the Fire I was only eight years old when my world was set on fire. The summer of 1947 in Ludhiana was hotter than usual, not just in the air but in people’s eyes. Men spoke in whispers. Our Hindu neighbors, once like uncles and aunties to me, stopped meeting Abbu’s gaze at the chai stall. We didn’t understand it at first. But the signs were there—the ink of partition had been drying long before they drew the line on the map.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in History
“The Blood-Soaked Love Letters of the French Revolution”
Paris, 1793 The city smelled of smoke, fear, and blood. Every street echoed with the thud of revolution—boots on cobblestones, drums calling citizens to execution squares, and the ominous roll of wooden wheels hauling the condemned. Paris was a city in labor, birthing a new world—but in the process, it devoured its children.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in History
“The Women Who Fought—And Bled—During the French Resistance”
When the guns of World War II roared across Europe, a shadow war brewed beneath the surface of occupied France—a war fought not only by soldiers in uniform but also by brave men and women in the shadows. Among them, countless women risked everything: their lives, their families, and their futures. They fought, they bled, and they refused to be silenced. These are their stories—the stories of the women who defied Nazi occupation and played a pivotal role in the French Resistance.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in History
“The Day the Wall Fell: Stories from a Divided Germany”
Prologue: The Wall That Wasn’t Always There For 28 years, the Berlin Wall stood like a scar across the heart of Germany — a concrete symbol of division not just of a city or a country, but of the world. Built overnight in 1961 and expanded over time with guards, barbed wire, and snipers, the Wall split families, friends, and futures.
By Hamza Habib7 months ago in History
