My grandfather could not read or write. Still not so unfortunate to be unable to send his children to school. He moved them from the village to the city and put them in a school. Not only did he give his children the opportunity to learn but he also passed on to them the discipline …
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The house that I live in is an old house. It was built in 1939. It is in one of the older neighborhoods in town. Most people that live here are older in age and have been living here for decades. The couple who used to live here, who we bought the house from, became …
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Note to reader: This is a longer essay that will be best enjoyed if you take your time to read it rather than a quick scroll. Think of it more as a book chapter rather than an internet meme. You also have the option to listen to it if time is a constraint. “In each …
My Father Wanted to be a Crow, I Want to be an Ant Read More »
Two women in their thirties meet unexpectedly at a gathering and realize that they are seeing each other after fifteen years. The last time they spent time together was when they were in high school. Then the paths of their lives diverged and they did not keep in touch. Now was a good time to …
I Heard You Got Divorced? Congratulations! Read More »
Some lines that you read or hear get stuck in memory without any good reason. From teenage years of reading Sidney Sheldon books, the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” has been etched into my memory. The idiom is sometimes attributed to Shakespeare but upon further digging I found out that this …
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There were times when Latin or Sanskrit were the most widely spoken languages around the world. Today, that claim goes to the English language. When I was growing up in Pakistan, we used to speak Urdu and Pashto at home but since the country was under British colonial rule prior to gaining independence, English was …
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I was recently in Peshawar to attend my younger brother’s wedding. It was a long time, more than a decade since there was a wedding in my family, so everybody was excited, including myself. After spending a week full of festivities and fun, when I came back to Rochester, all my American friends were excited …
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Our first meeting: My first recollection of Donna is when she came to the Cancer Center for the first time. She had been recently diagnosed with cancer that had already spread to her liver. As I walked into the room, I found an energetic and charismatic person who had the ability to become the center …
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Is it just me or does it look like everybody is getting overly opinionated nowadays? Everywhere I go, discussions are robust and quite heated. Everybody is part of multiple WhatsApp groups nowadays which has helped rekindle old friendships and has brought families together despite living many miles apart. It is supposed to be a good …
Is my phone making me hate my friends? And that too over politics? Read More »
This article was published in The Friday Times on April 12, 2022. ***CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE AT THE FRIDAY TIMES WEBSITE*** The first Grammy for a nation of 220 million people should be celebrated no less than the first Nobel Prize or the first Oscar. Thank you Arooj Aftab to show us this …
Mehdi Hassan, Farida Khanum, Hafiz Hoshiarpuri – And Now Arooj Aftab Read More »
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