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Phew, it has been an eventful couple of months since my last blog! What with a very dramatic and eventful trip to strife torn Afghanistan, my two trips to the hospital, holy Ramadhan and its predictable Eid el Fitr moon (non)sighting fiasco, current (very) noisy Navratri days, the never ending schools holidays for the kids […]
Your Sadeqa Funds Planes, Trains, Automobiles … I had the good fortune to make a speedy, brief visit to Machipatnam, Vijaywada and Alinaqipalam in Andra Pradesh last week; 75 minute flight to Hyderabaad, a 7 hour train ride to Machipatnam, 5 hours by car to Vijaywada and Alinaqipalam, another 7 hours by train to Hyderabaad […]
It Rained Bombs In Kabul Please click here to ready my (hopefully) interesting trip into Afghanistan right in the middle of her presidential elections. Please click here to view the photo gallery of this trip. New Trustees for CAI: I am happy to welcome Imran Abdullah of Houston, TX and Abbas Jaffer of New York as new Trustees […]
Kargil Medical Trip Report, August 2009 A Personal Note: With the onset of this very blessed month, I greet you and wish you a very blessed and fruitful Ramadhan, full of Allah’s blessings, forgiveness and mercy. Allah (S) has virtually guaranteed us forgiveness this month; we have only to open up and ask Him for […]
Medical Appeal I am on my way to Afghanistan at the moment but wanted your urgent assistance regarding the following 2 life / death medical cases from Kargil where CAI just concluded a very successful medical camp (report and photos out in very near future). 1. Kaniz Fatemah is 7, hails from Lankarchey District in […]
Succession I feel it very important I communicate the subject of succession of CAI operations if something were to happen to me. It is redundant to state that I am a mere mortal, but I’ll state it nevertheless; I AM! There are a number of things that can happen; I could be killed in an […]
They did what…? Ex President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam of India was frisked and made to remove his shoes for a security check before boarding a Continental Airline flight bound for New Jersey, NY. This happened in April, 2009 and it is now August. An absolute gentleman and a cool dude (although I really think […]
It Rained Bombs in Kabul Indian Airline flight IA844 to Kabul is bang on time, a miracle of sorts and we troupe to another half hearted security check before we board a bus that takes us to the aircraft. The flight is only about quarter full; due perhaps to increased security concerns of upcoming presidential […]
Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal – Update I was praying real hard we could, through some miracle, not deny food grains already allocated to the poor and destitute this Ramadhan. Alas, this is not the case and we have to be pragmatic and make the hard choices. We have cut the number of families we will assist […]
It is raining in Mumbai – again. This is not headline news, of course, for rain is what you get in Mumbai during July. The whole country sighed with relief when the rains began in earnest, three weeks late, a record of sorts. You will not believe how very, very critical these three month monsoon […]
