Posted in listen to this on Dec 10th, 2007
From City of Djinns By William Dalrymple
“Norah was dead, but that month as I explored the area around the residency, I found many other characters who seemed, like her to be bits of flotsam left over from the Delhi of William Fraser.
A little to the south of the residency, the British arsenal was blown up [...]
Posted in listen to this on Dec 2nd, 2007
Do I believe in ghosts? Djinns? Parries?
I don’t know. Or maybe I do. I haven’t seen one but sometimes I have felt some kind of presence. Occasionally I have experienced a sudden chill in the room even though the fan was off and the A/C was not running, or suddenly the air stirred and I [...]
Posted in listen to this on Nov 28th, 2007
Mariam to her Dada : Do you remember Dada that Dinosaurs died a long long time ago?
Dada : Yes bibi, I remember that.
Mariam : Well dada, they are still dead.
Posted in listen to this on Oct 2nd, 2007
Ms. Buksh, my psychology professor was a nice lady. Very firm but polite. No nonsense type but friendly too. And if you did well in her class she would look at you with a twinkle in her eyes and reward you with that rare, angelic smile, saved for special occasions. I wonder if she is [...]
Posted in listen to this on Sep 26th, 2007
I have a bad taste in my mouth.
What happened there in Columbia University made me sick in the stomach. What is wrong with us? We invite some one in our home and treat him in such shoddy manner? We claim to be educated and civilized. So then what happened to decency, respect, politeness? Why [...]
Posted in listen to this on Aug 16th, 2007
Note: quite a few years back I read this article in a Pakistani newspaper and saved it for future reads.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the most outstanding personalities the west has produced during the modern times. He was a poet, a philosopher and a scientist who had excelled in botany, biology [...]
Posted in listen to this on Aug 1st, 2007
My six years old granddaughter calls me from Toronto to tell me that one of her tooth is getting loose.
Its good to know that her growing up is good and on right track but what would you do to comfort a grandmother’s heart that this precious thing in her life, might sometimes have a toothache [...]
Posted in listen to this on Jul 9th, 2007
These despicable terrorists are now targeting Chinese people living in Pakistan. Chinese ! of all the people! live and let live practicing, Peace loving, hard working, polite and beautiful people!
Some body please tell me what is wrong with this fanatic, so called Mulla community? We thought it was their privilege to spread the Islamic [...]
Posted in listen to this on Jun 28th, 2007
Its ratings. Its all about ratings.
All day long i was hearing about Paris Hilton’s interview on Larry King live at 9:pm. I thought I would watch it but when it was time for the interview, I was doing something that I didn’t want to leave in the middle so I didn’t go to the family [...]
Posted in listen to this on Jun 25th, 2007
my blog is officially on today.
it was my younger son who said, ma I am going to set up a blog page for you.
actually, it started even before that. my web page was so old now that it had lost all its luster. I was not adding anything new. people had stopped visiting, sometimes leaving [...]
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