Eight years ago today, my life changed forever. It’s the day I went to meet my daughter for the first time. She was 18 months old, and I came face to face with her for the first time in the hall of a Mumbai orphanage.
Tonight, according to tradition, we’ll celebrate our special day with [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2010’
Kids - loveable or not, you have to keep loving them
An award that’s more a slap than a compliment
Is it wicked of me to gloat at the little discomfitures occasionally endured by the pampered, overfed, overpaid, contingent of bankers, corporate lawyers, CEO’s and PR people to give them a little poke in their highly feathered nests?
Every time another smug evangelist preacher gets caught with his pants down, or when a millionaire or two [...]
69 days and a lifetime to remember them
What were you doing in early August? What have you done in the weeks since?
As for me - in early August, I was in India, travelling, reporting, meeting people, eating dhosas and tandoori chicken, enjoying the sudden monsoon showers. Then I came home with a suitcase full of baubles for my daughters who I [...]
A View From Inside the Curfew.
Wasim Khalid
Wasim Khalid is a Srinagar based journalist and like his fellow Kashmiris, he’s been living under the government imposed curfew since June.
The pre-dawn congregational prayers in our mosque are just over. It is 6 in the morning.
As we prepare to return back to our homes, a husky voice on a loudspeaker pierces the windows [...]
Truth is stranger than fiction: or the strange case of Aafia Siddiqui
It’s one of the weirdest stories you’ll find in the media.
On the one hand, we have the meek but highly educated Muslim American woman, busy with her life - her job as a neurologist, arranging playdates for her kids, volunteering at Muslim charities, and generally not making too many waves in her Boston surroundings. [...]
