People were snuffed out in minutes
Read moreHiroshima: Objectives Attained (Part 4)
Dome of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall
Dome of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall
People were snuffed out in minutes
Read more….where it was said that nothing will grow for 75 years, new buds sprouted, and in the green that came to back to life among the charred ruins, people recovered their living hopes and courage.
Read moreSome stories are just too sweet to pass over. I was at the Islamic Center of New York University for an iftar, preceded by a sermon.
Read moreWe, as in Muslims. What if I were to pick up a tourist couple from Times Square and took them for an iftar?
Read moreCOVID changed our lives, some for better, some for worse, better? really! millions dead! living in fear! no goodbyes to dying Dad! does it get worse? three years later, we wonder . . .
Read more“Have a good holiday,” my friend Karen said to me. “Thank you, but it’s not a holiday.”
It happens every year at the beginning of Ramadan.
Actually, it’s called Mock Shaadi. Shaadi is Urdu for wedding. . . I had heard of mock trials, mock courts, mock whatever, but a mock wedding!
Read more“How old are you?”
If you ask a Pakistani this question, he or she is likely to stumble. He is not likely to say, “Biological age or official age?”
Hattie at Chautauqua
All these years, I have yearned to meet a ballerina. And then it happened.
Read moreStephen Hawking is quoted as saying: “The development of full Artificial Intelligence (AI) could spell the end of human race.” The chatter has been dominated by ChatGPT. Are we over-reacting? Can we define ethics or morals?
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