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A Day At The Tempe Mosque

In 1984 a wealthy student from Saudi Arabia studying at ASU brought a lot of funds from his family to build the mosque. No one at the mosque seems to remember his name.

Through Bloodshed and Tears

It was the year 1984. The Anti-Sikh massacre was taking place in India after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31 by her two Sikh guards.

Home, a state of mind?

Home is not necessarily a four-walled structure that has traces of one’s childhood days and it certainly does not represent the country or city one lives.

This Is For The Men Who'll Roll Their Eyes

I’m waiting for the day when the word feminism will not be a synonym for extremism.

Nietzsche – the Overman and the Three Metamorphoses

The overman can only prevail when God (and the likes of him) is dead and when that age comes “which is to carry heroism into the pursuit of knowledge and wage wars for the sake of thoughts and their consequence” .

Child Prostitution in Arizona

Although the Task Force is focusing its efforts on the supply, mainly prostitutes and pimps, there’s a practical problem of how to help these children.

Welfare for the Four-Legged

One is hopeful that in the not so distant future somebody will start a small shelter for the miserably wretched strays in Pakistan.

Memento Mori

Thoughtful and intriguing quotes, paintings and pictures on and about death and autopsies, gave the take-home message: live life, and embrace death.

scar[let]

Pitifully ironic
What I wrote so pathetically
Was yet in red

Sidra Omer

• Articles on Chowk: 9
• First article: Jun 19, 2005
• Latest article: Dec 7, 2008
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