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Let’s Be Serious

“Pakistan president Asif Zardari bans jokes ridiculing him� – Daily Telegraph, London, 21 July 2009

Bad Press

If you are pressed for time, you can get the latest news and race results on your Blackberry, and do banking on your cell phone. Should you still read the newspapers?

Let Me Count the Ways I Love You

Some societies practiced both polygamy and its reverse polyandry where one woman will have multiple husbands. Nairs of South India being an example of a polyandrous society.

How it Became Bakistan

A brief political history of Pakistan, from Jinnah’s idealism to Bhutto’s socialism and from dictatorships to present day Islamic fundamentalism.

Hop Aboard the Interfaith Express

Ironically, the main organizers of Interfaith conference at UN was His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, country with the worst record in history on religious tolerance.

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid!

From the march in Alabama to the victory speech in Grant Park, the nation has come this far in such a short span of time is nothing hosrt of a miracle.

General Colin Powell – A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Why blame the selection of Palin as one of the reasons for parting with McCain? Was this selection any worse than a warholes such as Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Rove, Bolton, Cheney

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis?

How long will it before Pakistani-Americans will let their voices be heard as a group?

September Morning

The pace might be pathetically slow but an increasing cadre of writers and thinkers have started to question smugness of the Islamic world.

Alcohol and Teenagers: A Lethal Mixture

If one can Vote and join the Army and sent to Iraq when 18, why not being able to buy a beer in the USA?

Pura Vida – 2 Weeks in the Land of Ticos

Futbol (soccer) is a national passion. Every town and village is built around a futbol field. Quoting a tour guide “we Costa Ricans love futbol but we suck at it�.

Persecution of Religious Minorities In Islamic Countries

Meaningless protests over stupid cartoons do not achieve anything. Speaking up against injustices in their own countries does.

Race to the Finish

60 years ago, when Jackie Robinson, first Black Man to play in US Major League Baseball, walked onto the field, he was taunted, ridiculed, and booed, but despite all adversity, he delivered.

Little Pakistan: Brooklyn’s Coney Island Avenue

This article does not discuss racism or race relations. Instead, it hopes to capture how a community has gone through such adversity and is coming back to life, after almost losing it.

Color-Blind Love

Worldwide, interracial marriages are on the rise. However, 20 years ago, because of my religion, a German priest would not officiate our marriage nor would a Greek Orthodox priest.

Where is Ibn-Sina of the 21st Century?

The 800-pound gorilla in the Islamic room is not ignorance or violence but “Blind� faith in Quran and the Hadith.

Ellada: 3 Weeks in Northeastern Aegean Islands

We alternate our summer vacations between Pakistan and Greece, visiting places of history and intrigue. '07 was a Greece year.

Save this Cultural Heritage

I hope that the good people of Lahore show some concern in preserving and helping rejuvenate this cultural heritage and stand together with their brothers and sisters of Hira Mandi to have the neighborhood restored to its old glory.

How to Kill the Dead Again

What exactly was President Ahmadinejad thinking? I mean try to get into his head and try to figure out what kind of a human would like to poke fun at the murder of 6 million people?

Killing Fields No More - One Week in Angkor, Cambodia

Siem Reap (pronounced “See-em Ree-ep”) in Northern Cambodia is roughly a 50-minute plane ride from Bangkok, but a journey into a different world, a small sleepy town near Angkor, a UNESCO world heritage city of literally 100s of temples.

Ahmadis – The Forgotten People

In addition to state sanctioned persecution, there is a movement in the name of preserving Islam and the Finality of the Prophet that seeks to intimidate Ahmadis and accuse them of being collaborators of Jews and Christians and enemies of Islam

Expression of Freedom: An American Invention

Jazz, like all things American, is “in-your-face”, it is uninhibited, it’s like two gay teenagers kissing in front of their homophobic parents. It’s like you running into your grandma in a Victoria Secret store

Beethoven’s Funeral

Just as a lot is changing, so is Metal. Heavy Metal has evolved into various other genres with each considered a legitimate musical expression in it’s own right. If music is food for soul, then Metal is raw meat for some and blood and gore for oth

My darling Dhoti!

The customs officers examines my stuff and says “nice table cloth” “is it hand-made?” he asks. Sir, this is not a tablecloth, this is a Dhoti, I explained to him.

Feroz Qutabshahi

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