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...

Living in a third-world country like Pakistan has its advantages, incredible as it sounds. For instance, you don't have to wait fifteen ...

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...

Today is "Chehlum", the fortieth day after the event of the killing of Imam Hussein and his family members. I've always wonder...

He was a typical Memon, having obtained a useless degree, as he never expected to work for someone else. He had everything anyone would want...

Every year a couple of times I get struck by a unique virus. Many years back such a cold was called influenza (later, the flu), but this vir...

I've always known that Muslim religious scholars are out of touch with reality. In the 1980s a prominent Saudi cleric said that it's...

I've had many relatives who have wanted to leave Pakistan and settle in a foreign country, the favorite being the US. It was considered ...

Someone sent me this and I thought it's so good I should post it here: Question: I voted for Trump to halt all illegal immigration and...

Every year there is a controversy over the Eid moon sighting in Pakistan due to some witnesses suddenly appearing two hours after sunset (af...

Aslam was an average Memon, uneducated and moderately religious. He had seen his father die at the age of 63, suffering from diabetes and he...

Daily you hear or read something that makes you wonder whether Pakistan will be able to survive. Besides Imran Khan's efforts to weaken ...

I've never understood why some Pakistanis kill others at the slightest provocation. Perhaps it's the lack of education. It is said t...

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. ...

A couple of weeks ago I met a schoolmate who said, "We're meeting after sixty years!" I was amazed. I'd entertained him to...

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...

Zahid Shaikh, my NED college friend, died yesterday after a year-long struggle against cancer at the age of 79. He had been operated for pro...

There was a time, long ago, when men were valued for their intellect and wisdom. Teachers, particularly, were regarded highly, even though m...

When I was around 18, I'd gone with my father to a client's house. He must've been around 60 or so. My father asked him to bring...

There was a time when only non-Muslim Pakistanis (Christians, particularly) wanted to leave the country. I remember a Catholic family wonder...