An Alig's Armchair

When good speakers deliver in Urdu the effect is other worldly. I shall collect some of that in this post. Example One : A colleague ...

Ever wondered why Modi and his goons hate me with so much of hostility? This is just one of the reasons. Read on... BEFORE THE NATIONAL...

Based on the Kalam of Hazrat Khwaja Azizul Hasan Sahab Ghauri Majzoob (RA) Source : YT

Allah (SWT) says in the Noble Qur'an that people who take heed of divine revelation are few. What about the rest? Well they find it ...

For quite some time it has been weighing rather heavy on my mind that I should off load the massive weight on my conscience in a series ...

We do have Professor Irfan Habib but I would like to talk about those Muslim public intellectuals who do not have problems with their Musli...

Yours truly has been lately having some pangs of optimism. That was because of some perceptible change in US policy towards Islam and Musl...

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M. Katju wrote a status on his Facebook account in which he raised a question whether constitution of India has become outdated.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