For 6 years, complete censorship was imposed in Japan. No one was allowed to write about the bomb. No one was allowed to tell the awful story. No one was allowed to say it the way they saw it.
Read moreHiroshima: What I Believed Then; What I Know Now (Part 3)
The clocks stopped at 8:15 a.m.
I had seen the history of Hiroshima through the eyes of the British, through the eyes of historians, and now I was seeing it for myself.
Read moreHiroshima: Objectives Attained (Part 4)
Dome of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall
People were snuffed out in minutes
Read moreHiroshima: The Healing Begins (Part 5)
….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 moreWhere Are the Jews?
Some 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 Are Not a Monolith
We, as in Muslims. What if I were to pick up a tourist couple from Times Square and took them for an iftar?
Read moreSelect Recurring Forever
COVID 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 moreIt's Not a Holiday
“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.
Mock Wedding
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 moreHow Old Are You?
“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?”