I know this is a blog entry that is going to provoke the most hideous retribution, yet it is a burden I need to off load and so I place my neck on the platter and await a mass chopping. I have no regrets; First off, I utterly loathe almost everything about the entire concept [...]

Having despised Nationalism as the most divisive of political notions for most of my conscious life I now find that it does have certain charms and attractions.  Now, especially as my youth is spent I join former Test Cricketer Saeed Anwer in his call to stop and abolish the menace of cricket which he says [...]

Something very odd happened yesterday. There was no suicide bombing anywhere in Pakistan.
Sadly, over the last year or so those of us living in the “Land of the Pure” have been driven to cursing the day it all began because where we are today is something that our founder would have been [...]

(In continuation to The Dangerous Student as a Young Man)
It was 424 AH (or 1034 AD) and the scholars and students had gathered at the home of the Grand Shaykh in Isphahan. As they sipped mint tea, a student leaned forward and began to speak. ‘Master, there are certain things that are bothering [...]

(In continuation to A Tale of a Dangerous Student)
The year was AH 390 (or AD 1000) when the emir of Bukhara, Nuh Ibn Mansur summoned his young and famous court physician.
‘Tell me Ali Husain’ said the emir, ‘how did you learn so much about medicine and the cures for so many diseases?’
‘Why do you ask, [...]

It was in the year 380AH (or 990 AD according to the Christian calendar) that the student lifted his eyes from the book he was reading and asked his teacher.
‘Master’ he said, ‘there is this scholar who says that the world we live in is in constant motion. Could it be true?’
The teacher looked at [...]