I Think, Therefore I blog

A few years back I was explaining the benefits of paying income tax to some Memon businessmen. Of course, I've been paying income tax si...

Published in Dawn Magazine on November 1996 In his article, Vulver: Memon style (Dawn Magazine, October 18, 1996), the writer did not state ...

I saw a video clip today which showed an attractive Pakistani woman who became wealthy by begging. She's earned enough to buy two apartm...

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...

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

Being a Memon myself, people are surprised when I speak disparagingly of Memons. This is because most Memons have become extremists and have...

There are days when I see or hear something that fills me with despair. Yesterday was such a day. I'd been invited by a close relative f...

Two days ago a close female relative (about 68 or 69 years old) passed away. I rarely go to funerals because of the fear of getting Covid, b...

Cousin marriages have been so common among Pakistani and Indian Muslims that most of them are morons. I refer particularly to my own communi...

I have never understood why some of my fellow Memons take second and even third wives even though their first ones are still around. Over th...

Way back in the 1970s, I was a construction engineer in an oil company. It had been newly launched by my fellow Memons from Bantva in India....

For many years now, I've noticed that more Memons are dying before they reach the age of 70. In fact, most of them pop off before they...

I am probably the only Memon among my peers who knows his date of birth. I have my original birth certificate (in Gujrati, which I can read ...

I used to know a man who had attended my parent's wedding in 1943. He said that all the Muslims and many Hindus in Savar Kundla had been...

It's customary for a Memon woman to spend the final days of her first pregnancy in her parent's house. The hospital and medical e...

The residents of a new building in Clifton (Macchiara Residency) put up a notice that non-Muslims would not be allowed to buy or rent apartm...

I had always thought that Memons had converted to Islam around 250 to 300 years ago. My own elders told me that a Lohana Hindu named Nathu R...

I do not like to attend wedding dinners for obvious reasons. The venue is usually at a great distance from my house, involving a long drive ...

A woman who was closely related to my niece’s in-laws and who belonged to my community (Memons) was murdered by her husband, who slit her th...

Published in Dawn Magazine on December 5, 1999 Sometime I meet people who say that the only way they can be happy is to get out of this coun...