Srinagar, Feb. 17 -- Recently, I came through the writing of Alama Iqbal and read his books and memoirs and I honestly did not expect it to affect me the way it did. I thought I was opening books and memoirs of poetry and philosophy which I usually read, but what I found was something far more intense, a direct conversation about life, purpose, struggle, and the kind of human being we are meant to become. Iqbal's words don't feel like they belong to one century. It was like it was meant for every generations. They feel alive. They challenge you, wake you up, and refuse to let you remain the same.One of the biggest surprises for me was Iqbal's central idea of Khudi, the Self. In simple terms, Iqbal believes that life is not meant for peopl...