Is The Internet Stealing your Life
In the midst of our hectic lives these days, all of us need to seek and cultivate calm.…
Saying Goodbye to Corporate Life
I write this with an urge to get away with a little self-indulgence. A lot in life is…
Ghalib The Grand Poet from India
Years ago when I needed a book that I held in great esteem to take the oath of…
Death – The Eternal Mystery
In every culture we know of, whether secular or religious, cosmopolitan or tribal, the ultimate question of life…
Some Thoughts in the Aftermath of the Tragedy in Paris
OUR REACTIONS Nothing at all justifies the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo’s journalists, still less on the Jewish…
Jean-Paul Sartre: The Man who Spurned the Nobel Prize for Literature
While thinking of how most Pakistanis grudge Malala’s Nobel Prize for Peace, which she by no means got…
The Real Story of the Laal Masjid (Red Mosque)
PREAMBLE In the wake of Peshawar’s massacre of schoolchildren, the Laal Masjid (Red Mosque) of Islamabad is once…
Perversion of Faith and Secularisation
The war of religion has always been a part of human history. Hence, it is hardly surprising if…
The Joy of Reading
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit…
Forgiveness: An Important Skill to Learn
That I have always found it very easy to forgive those who have wronged me is not because…