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A few days ago, I came across some videos of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at Columbia University. I looked up some more videos of Ahmadinejad and realised there was one thing all of them had in common: whether he was speaking to Larry King on TV or giving a talk at an American university…
When I was invited by some friends to go on vacation with them to Sri Lanka, my first thoughts were that of hesitation. Like others, I had not really heard great things about that part of the world. However, I relented and to tell you the truth, my curiosity peaked when I read that the…
They say parenting is a process where the parent learns more from the child than vice versa. One learns what innocence is again, how to cherish it and how to tackle curiosity in a positive nurturing way. My daughter who is now six tends to ask me the simplest of questions but none of them…
A group that goes by the name of the Indian Cyber Army hacked into 36 of the Pakistan Government’s websites.While the message left by the hackers has been removed, some of these websites are also temporarily out of order. The world is at war these days, but many of these battles are now fought out of…
Some years ago Eidul Azha or Bakra Eid, as it is commonly referred to, used to be a simple affair. A designated person would purchase the goats/cows for their family and the qasab/kasai would slaughter the animals and remind us of the great sacrifice taken by Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) to show his devotion…
Three days ago I was standing in line at my bank before the teller when he decided to take a little longer than he normally does. As I stood there waiting, a hand suddenly appeared from over my shoulder tapping the glass and telling him to hurry up, no response from the teller turned into…
Us ki qandeel ke noor tale Lehron pe jhoomte huaye Momin jiye ja rahe hain Halki halki moseeqi me Baton ke pahar banate Thori see piye ja ra hen aur woh un ka rab is soch me hay Ke me ne kis mitte se inhe bana dia Farishton ko in ke samne jhuka dia Ye…
This is a map presented by Transparency International based on according to them the “perception corruption index” The more corrupt countries are in shades of red while the less corrupt ones are in lighter colors of yellow and so on. Although I have no qualms with the International in TIP’s name as most of their…
I have to admit, my first experience with an Apple device of any kind was an iPhone and it was a very confusing one. I had fallen for its sleek look and even more so, when a friend told me that the Twitter app, TweetDeck could be used on it, I was clearly very impressed….