Urdu Literature and more…
Posted in listen to this on Jun 16th, 2009
So, finally I got around and took care of my Urdu Stories. For a start there are three stories there now for my visitors to read. I have not sent my creative work anywhere in a long time. Reason unknown or maybe its something I would like to address some other time. Anyways, here we [...]
Posted in listen to this on Feb 11th, 2009
Our five year-old strikes again. The other day she was playing with her mama’s fake fur slippers. She started pulling small wisps of fur and soon the carpet was covered with these small pink balls of fur. Realizing that she has made a mess in the family room and her mama would not be happy [...]
Posted in listen to this on Dec 12th, 2008
Here is another one about our five years old who is very smart for her age. I am not talking about some academic achievements because she has not shown any particular interest in this field but she can take her own sweet time for that. There is no hurry. And in any case, she thinks [...]
Posted in listen to this on Dec 5th, 2008
Another flickering light went out.This time it was my husband’s mother, my mother in law. She passed away last week at the age of – well, over a hundred years. At first people said she was hundred an four / five. It turned out that even that was not correct. And my brother in law [...]
Posted in listen to this on Nov 23rd, 2008
Way back when the presidential race was still going on between Obama and McCain, I saw this on the news. “No way, no how, no McCain, no Palin!” Mrs. Clinton declared. After someone in the audience yelled, “Tell us about Palin,” Mrs. Clinton replied: “I don’t think that’s what this election is about. Anybody who [...]
Posted in listen to this on Nov 23rd, 2008
My five years old granddaughter should be offered some job in the government. She was sitting on the porch with her dada enjoying the winter sun. A butterfly was flitting around a nearby bush. She was admiring its beauty, its colors and the way it was going around the bushes looking for flowers. That stirred [...]
Posted in listen to this on Jun 4th, 2008
Sixteen months ago, my son brought Obama in our home and said, “Ma, pay attention to him. Listen carefully to what he says … he is going to be our next President.” I was sitting outside of camp Clinton not sure if I really wanted to go in. So I started listening to him … [...]
Posted in listen to this on Apr 8th, 2008
March 27, 08. It was again that time when I cannot decide what I am feeling and I don’t even try to find out, just submit, if that is what it is. Submit. Who takes over after that? I don’t try to find out that either. Just curl inside myself and let the thoughts flow. [...]
Posted in listen to this on Mar 10th, 2008
The other day someone on some talk show, or maybe it was some news analyst, said that “Clinton was using Machiavellian tactic”. That makes her cunning and deceitful. I didn’t say that – it’s The Oxford Dictionary that says what this term means. But if one person notices and points out her Machiavellian traits then [...]
Posted in listen to this on Feb 22nd, 2008
As long as you try your best to do the right thing, it really does not matter what God you believe in. Allah, Eshwar, Bhagwan, God – are only the different names for the Creator of all things, big or small.
Riffat Murtaza
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