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The blahs and blahs of Mumbai…
Okay, I know it has been a while since I wrote. What with constant traveling and CAI issues keeping me…
Mullah Happy’s Fury – Final
Why in Allah’s name is there a need to demean others? Why rile and enrage their leaders and imams, no…
Mullah Happy’s fury – Part 1
I meet Mullah Happy regularly and he is, at most times, a pretty decent fellow, soft-spoken, mild in temperament and…
Callous Customs – Australia
I am on my way to visit Australia, invited to preset Comfort Aid International projects to various communities in Sydney…
Haseena, the child woman – Final?
I have to leave and get up to go but I want to help her. I tell her I will…
Haseena, the child woman, part 2.
That is a nice name, Haseena, I say. She stops her prodding and regards me, suspicious and wary once more.…
Haseena, the child woman.
It is a mere 10 minute walk from my home behind Yari Road to Bank of India and I cherish…
Burma calling
Burma, or Myanmar for those that like being politically correct, evokes conflicting and exotic paradigms, shaped by what we hear…
Irrational anger?
It is almost end of 2008; what a year! It is 7 months since our move from Houston to Mumbai;…
A Mumbai Train Ride
It is 21:30 and I want to return home to Andheri after burying my friend Aliakber’s dad at the Masgaun…
Mumbai massacres
Humans became animals on November 26 when a few of them got together to gun down innocent people traveling in…
Lalaland
I once lived in a country called Lalaland, a finger sized oil rich kingdom clusters on Middle East map. Then,…