An Alig's Armchair

This sinner is in a state of extremely intense nostalgia. This bout happened because of the little bit of cleaning work that yours truly ...

I shall begin with the Islamic solution to existentialist crisis. Supplication is an essential part of Islam. Wise people have told us th...

According to Mr Justice M. Katju Dostoevsky asked how can there be a God when many innocent children suffer of hunger, cold, beatings and...

Some of my favorites: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Me...

Many of the people in my blog list have not posted for a long time. Clearly Lord Most high has made His presence felt. And one of the b...

Justice M. Katju wrote a status on his Facebook account in which he raised a question whether constitution of India has become outdated. ...

You fear the loss of what you have. You fear the loss of your material possessions. You fear the loss of your emotional possessions. Yo...

I am sorry that is not true. There are people who are bad at heart. And then there are people who are very bad. That is life. Combin...

Aye aab-e-rood-e-ganga kya toone us waqt ko faramosh kar diya jab khuda shanason, ahl-e-ilm aur ahl-e-dil ke karvan tere kinare utre aur is...

Aijaz Zaka Syed is a gulf based journalist of Hyderabadi origin. He has written a personal column about loneliness away from home and pro...

I wrote the following on Abdul Hafiz Gandhi's Facebook page: Dear AH,  (1) I shall watch the documentary later but I have a few ...

Moments ago the chants of Tempo is High filtered into my room from the the window. It means that some sort of activity for union electio...

This story was recounted by Prof. Khalid Al-Jubeir, consulting cardiovascular surgeon, in one of his lectures: Once I operated on a two a...

Because of a compelling reason yours truly ended up at FaceBook. And yours truly is feeling very awkward. Being a private person it was n...

Encroachment upon social, cultural, economic, political, business and financial space of Muslims has been taking place in independent India...

This is a specialized post but the subject matter has universal importance in present times. Here is a Cornell University programme rega...

Today noted social scientist and historian of modern India Ramchandra Guha gave Sir Syed Memorial Lecture in the Engineering College Audito...

Here is some Persian poetry. Yours truly has not gone trough it but it looks like a good collection. 1 Kaare bagair ishq na daarem da...