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Articles with tag: LIFESTYLE

Diabetes: Wrestling with a Twenty-First Century Monster

Mutaal Mooquin   Jul 2, 2008   interacts: 50

“Half of world’s population at risk of diabetes by end of next decade.” This disorder is encroaching on the traditional confines of age, ethnicity, and geography—in particular AGE.

Adam Khor Ayash Gorillay

Syed Shah   Jan 26, 2007   interacts: 8

Is everyone these days tripping over themselves to conform to this stereotype of being hip?

My Bars of Chocolate

Zulfi Ahmed   Jul 7, 2003   interacts: 44

Girls are like bars of chocolate. They are sweet and too much consumption of either can cause heart trouble. Then there is bitter chocolate, which like girls can leave a bitter taste in your mouth.

I’m With Stupid

Haroon Moghul   Jul 3, 2003   interacts: 6

thought to myself, as I searched for the right kind of chocolate fudge cake, that I was now living in an ascendant empire, the most powerful country on earth and perhaps in all of human history. An empire!

Fat-Free!

Samina Wahid   May 6, 2003   interacts: 33

But what about food you ask?

My Beautiful Rizwan

Samina Rizwan   Apr 5, 2003   interacts: 79

Such was the overpowering presence in my life, of Rizwan - my husband, my friend, my soulmate, my shaheed.

Dear Dana

Sobia Aslam   Feb 24, 2003   interacts: 13

The last time I saw you was at the Espresso Royale Caf.

In Search of Peace and Flowers

Ras Siddiqui   Feb 15, 2003   interacts: 43

personal perspective on the January rally

Delhi University Politics

Parag Vohra   Mar 1, 2002   interacts: 107

The civic lesson constituted our being made to lie down face down and rub our noses on the ground

The Shah of Chicago: A Novel

A J Nabi   May 18, 2001   interacts: 6

Will you purchase more narcotics?

Anything But Vacant

Omar Phoenix   Nov 19, 2000   interacts: 29

I would like some thighs, cut the fat, I want it lean

Of Boylove and Boylovers

Sabia Ahmed   Aug 31, 1999   interacts: 223

We (even in the oh-so-liberal West) live in a more conformist society that we are led to believe

Discovering Ali Hasan

Rehan Rizvi   Feb 18, 1999   interacts: 82

Once upon a time, falling in love was not that complicated.

The Quranic Concept of Love

Kashif A Shehzada   May 28, 1998   interacts: 1

A Quranic perspective on love, choosing one’s life partner, and intimate relations amongst the sexes.

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