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Speak Not, They Are Our Fallible Ulemas! I am at my home office in Sanford, FL, at peace with the world for a change. The air outside is a crisp 48F; I am shivering when I drop Maaha Zainab at her high school at seven, when the sky is a deep ebony. Imagine! I wish […]
Rohingya Refugees Orphans – An Update: The influx of refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh continue unabated but there is now some order since the Bangladesh Army has taken over the administration of the misery. The land for CAI sponsored school for 100 orphans has been acquired and construction of a makeshift school will commence shortly […]
Amongst The Rohingya Refugees – Nasser Jetha We have all been witnessing the immense cruelty and ensuing tragedy meted towards the Rohingyas in Myanmar (Burma). One persistent question haunts my mind. How can I help? Emotionally affected by the pictures sent by Yusufali of his recent trip to the refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar in […]
Aid To Rohingya IN BD Has Begun: CAI has begun the construction of 50 toilets and 25 shallow water wells for the Rohingya refugees now at Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. Arrangements for the education, care, and wellbeing of 100 orphans is also underway. CAI Trustees are on the ground in the camps as you read this […]
Ashoora Eve At Kasar Bagh – A Distributing Ritual Back in India, it takes me almost two days to calm down and begin eating normally, after my highly emotional, haunting and turbulent visit with the Rohingya refugees rotting at the squalor camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Since I have been away almost all active nights […]
Donor Aid To Rohingya Refugees In BD Begin: Aid to the wretched Rohingya refugees (read Blog here) at the squalor camps at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh has begun. Due to the total lack of sanitation facilities in the camps and the real and immediate threat of communicable diseases, CAI has begun the construction of two toilets, […]
BOOK ONE – Sikander Ali ‘You are a bloody buffoon, a red-assed bander, a monkey, who will not be anything once you grow up. You hear me, you idiot? Your mother should be satisfied if you make it as a barber!’ ‘Bah,’ I resorted glibly, ‘Habeeb is a barber and his salon takes in thousands […]
Emirates flight EK508 from Dubai descends to about 10,000 feet and begins the final approach towards Mumbai’s Chhatrapati International Airport. I am relieved, since I’ll soon be asleep in a comfortable bed at the Leela Hotel, after almost 24-hours on an aircraft from Orlando. Alas, not so fast. The plane lurches, turns course and heads […]
CAI Donors Reach Out To Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh: CAI Trustees are on the ground in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh trying to bring some relief to the terrible plight of the Rohingya people who have been forced out of their homes in Myanmar (Burma). Due to the overwhelming demand by over 400,000 such people, logistics for […]
Masi Irma Comes Visiting Masi Irma blows into Florida like an enraged ex, packing a hefty punch, huffing and puffing, spewing destruction and mayhem, upsetting routine and instilling fear. But like most exes with an ax to grind, the fury, devastation, and death she spits out are based on emotions churned by passion rather than […]
