Posted in Reflections, tagged Anti-Islamists, Fitna- film, Geert Wilders, Islamophobia on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
This post has been on my ‘to-do’ lists for ever so long! It’s time I stopped being such a master-procrastinator. The Geert Wilders controversy that happened eons ago had rankled me then & ever since has been a burr in my side. So this here, I endeavour to present a coherent rebuttal, forgive me if [...]
Posted in Reflections on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Notice I’d want to use outside the Centre for Islamic Studies,
Assalamualaikum dearest one and all,
Is it really so hard to put in a 10Rs Note from your exaggerated or not monthly earnings? If you haven’t noticed there’s a lonely looking piggy bank sitting right there, yes ‘piggy’ bank, there’s nothing here to go [...]
Posted in Reflections, tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Psychology, Selfishness, Vice, Virtue, Words on January 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to write about Ayn Rand for quite sometime now…well, since the moment I finished ‘Atlas Shrugged’ with great relief, i.e. I’ve high respect for the author for having crystallized her thoughts with such crispness of dialogue and narrative; she also makes certain points that may well challenge the thinking of many but [...]
Posted in Frivolity, Reflections, tagged Faux, Intellect, Intellectual, library, Muslim Scholar on January 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When people get the first glimpse of my library, I can always hear my internal groan in great, painful clarity. ‘Oh my! Look at this!’ and I can tell by the gleam in their eyes and sometimes ecstatic comments that follow, they think of me as some sort of a formidable scholar, no amount of correcting [...]
Posted in Reflections, tagged Archetypes, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto Family, Carl Jung, Gandhi Family, Politics on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bhutto episode calls for some serious pondering. I didn’t feel like going at it until I had my thoughts straight. The assassination itself being a shameful and cowardly act, it also draws our attention to some serious flaws in the thinking of the political populace-us.
Benazir Bhutto had remained an Iconic figure inspite of [...]
Posted in Reflections, tagged Ayn Rand, Books, Coffee, Don Quixote, Human Rights, Illiad on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
While I’m still on the subject of books, I thought I’ll subject the good ‘ol machinery to Ayn Rand’s works. Got meself a book by her yesterday. ‘Her’ is in italics only because I thought of Rand as a ‘He’ until recently, much to my mortification, correction came from unexpected quarters.
I also picked up [...]
Posted in Reflections, tagged Peace on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
There’s no word more torn than ‘Peace’. Can we gather its fragments and form a living whole?
Gather it from the screams of the holocaust,
From the ghosts of Bosnia,
From the seeking arms of Darfur,
From the despairing souls of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay,
From the shell-shocked blur of Iraqis who know not if they [...]
Posted in Frivolity, Reflections, tagged Culture, Head Gear, Wedding on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Cultural de rigueur is sometimes so mindless that it oversteps the borders of plain hilarity to plain craziness. My friend decided to go into relapse after having sworn off all social glitterati gatherings by attending a wedding of the unknowns i.e., you only know that your parents know them of course but you were clueless [...]
Posted in Reflections on November 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I remember the time when I’d read about one particular victim of the Godhra Carnage. It was a stricken phase drenched in the shameless vermilion of communal red. Every shopkeeper, vendor, worker was whispering grimly on the streets. Shaking their heads at the sheer callousness of the people involved. But this story ripped me open, [...]
Posted in Reflections on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Salma has found her Saleem!
Islamic protocol does not involve betrothals or bachelors’ parties or bridal showers as pre-wedding rituals. We just have the planetarians sighting each other (one being from Mars and the other from Venus), the relatives can be intergalactic for all we care as long as the two protagonists like each other.
Yesterday I went [...]
