I Think, Therefore I blog

A couple of days back, my oldest cousin suddenly kicked the bucket. He was five years older than me and lived a good life. What was surprisi...

It's been fifty two years since I signed on the dotted line. Those were traumatic times, just two years after the country was sundered a...

Every birthday I share my thoughts on this page. While it's a pleasant surprise to be alive and having lived longer than most of my rela...

I must've started writing at the age of eight. In fact, even before that, my schoolteachers had discovered that I was very good in Engli...

A couple of days back the blood pressure of my 85 year old cousin dropped suddenly while he was driving. His car damaged two vehicles as he ...

I was first introduced to vitamin tablets in 1959 (when I was only 15) by a maternal uncle who had recently shifted to Karachi from Bombay. ...

I don't socialize much, in fact I absolutely avoid going to those wedding dinners (unless a close relative is the groom). In fact, there...

Well, finally I've attained the age of 80, something I did not imagine would happen when I was in my 30's or 40's.  I'm luck...

  Even though I'm only partially retired (I spend three hours daily at work), most of my time now is spent at home. Fortunately I've...

When I was not so old (around 65), I thought I would never be pre-occupied by thoughts of death (as some of my older contemporaries were). I...

I didn't really expect to live so long when I got married fifty years ago. I also thought my marriage wouldn't last more than five y...

I've always maintained that the UK is the only country I'd like to migrate to if circumstances force me to leave Pakistan. In fact, ...

I still find it difficult to believe that I'm still alive. In my teens I thought I wouldn't live beyond the age of 40. In fact, duri...

Sixteen years back, when I had a heart attack and two stents had to be inserted to help me survive, doctors had warned my family members to ...

The first time I went through an earthquake was in 1968. I was in bed in a hotel in Swat reading a book when I felt that someone was trying ...

A couple of days back I wrote about even Memons not printing their women's names on wedding cards. I received such a card from a distant...

My wedding took place exactly two years after the Fall of Dhaka, when the country was dismembered due to the intransigence of our generals. ...

In Pakistan two of the most difficult professions were always under-paid: teaching and writing. Nowadays teachers (especially tuition teache...

My remote ancestors migrated from Sindh to the Indian state of Gujrat about 500 to 600 years ago. In Sindh, winters are much more severe tha...

It's been a very long time since I visited Jodia Bazaar, the locality where I spent my early year (1947-1956). I want to go there but th...