Rumi’s: The City of Saba
Posted on March 21, 2012
Filed Under Literature, News & Media, Poetry, Video
I happened to watch this meaningful video on the Youtube based on Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi, This video is from Four Seasons Productions and is one of the 21 videos in the…
Value of Emotion in Politics
Posted on January 16, 2012
Filed Under Books, Literature, Politics
There is no law and no certainty. The teaching propaganda be hanged. What the people know does not matter, were its knowledge so accurate. The only thing that matters to us is the emotional state…
Mumtaz Mahar: A genuine but negelected writer of Sindhi
Posted on April 20, 2008
Filed Under Literature, Opinion
Today I received a message from Mumtaz Mahar, short story writer and critic of Sindhi literature asking me to meet him for a little chit chat that he was planning in a hotel in Karachi. I was…
Wisdom of Sea
Posted on February 20, 2008
Filed Under Literature
These lines are from a book of ‘Paulo Coelho’ named The ‘Valkyries’. I was very impressed with the thought and I want to Share it with you….
Image credit: The Little Castle
“What do you see in…
Sonnet on Fidelity
Posted on January 23, 2008
Filed Under Literature, Poetry
Above all, to my love I”ll be attentive
First, and always with such ardor, so much
That even when confronted by this great
Enchantment my thougts ascend to more delight.
I want to live through in each…
To Edith
Posted on December 22, 2007
Filed Under Literature
Through the long years
I sought peace
I found ecstasy, I found anguish
I found madness
I found lonliness
I found the solitary pain
That gnaws the heart
But peace I did…
Aquarela: A Brazilian song
Posted on December 18, 2007
Filed Under Literature
(This is translation of a song from Brazilian Portuguese that one of my friend Gisele sent me sometime back)
In a piece of paper I draw a yellow sun
And with five or six lines it’s easy to raise a castle…
Love in the time of Cholera
Posted on December 16, 2007
Filed Under Literature
Few days back I happened to read the master piece of Marquez, yes none other than ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. The style in which Marquez has dealt with the characters is splendid. It is sort of away from…
American Supreme Court and Plutocracy
Posted on September 25, 2004
Filed Under Arts & Humanities, Books, Literature, Review
An excerpt from the book, “Power: A New Social Analysis” by Bertrand Russell about the Supreme Court of United States of America and role of Plutocracy. I found it quite interesting and…