It is the usual story about a feudal landlord’s repression, killing, torture and expulsion of tenant farmers, something that probably has happened countless times in Punjab’s history. But there is a twist. The landlord in this case is the Pakistan army. The same army which is one of the biggest landlord as well as industrial… Continue reading Feudal Military
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Do They Look Like Me?
You might have heard about the terror induced by 14 Syrian musicians on a Northwestern flight. There is no doubt that something out of the ordinary happened on Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29. The plane was met at the airport by squads of federal agents and police responding… Continue reading Do They Look Like Me?
Travel Tales
I like traveling quite a lot and hence am quite fond of blogs describing or photographing travel around the world. Amanda Butler of Crescat Sententia is blogging about her experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan. Her descriptions make me want to plan my Central Asian trip soon. Brian Ulrich talks about the standard… Continue reading Travel Tales
Bilingual Health
Who knew speaking both Urdu and English could improve my mental health! Being fluent in two languages could protect against age-related cognitive decline, says a study in the June issue of Psychology and Aging. Researchers from York University in Toronto compared the results of 154 bilingual and monolingual middle-aged and older adults on the Simon… Continue reading Bilingual Health
ڈھاکہ سے واپسی پر
بہت دنوں سے اردو میں کچھ نہیں لکھا کیونکہ کمپیوٹر پر اردو لکھنے کی مجھے بالکل عادت نہیں ہے۔ آصف، جلال، عمیر اور دانیال اس سلسلے میں بہت بہتر ہیں کہ اردو میں بلاگ کرتے ہیں۔ آج آپ کو فیض احمد فیض کی شاعری پر اکتفا کرنا پڑے گا۔ کسی اور دن میں خود سے کچھ لکھوں گا۔
The Other Side of Silence
Thanks to Conrad Barwa who recommended this book to me. This is a good book which collects some stories of the riots and migrations that accompanied independence and partition of India in 1947. The book focuses on the Punjab, rightly so in my opinion since the Punjab is where most of the “action” happened. Partition… Continue reading The Other Side of Silence
Miscellaneous
I have read a number of books in the past month or so and owe you guys about five reviews. Hopefully, I’ll get to them in the next couple of weeks. Asad has informed me that he has created a phonetic Urdu keyboard layout for Unipad. He also pointed me to the Yahoo! mailing list… Continue reading Miscellaneous
What’s in a Name I
One of the interesting pastimes during pregnancy is choosing a name for the baby. Since we can’t be sure about the gender of the baby, we have to consider both boy and girl names. The question then comes down to what sort of names to choose. Most people choose names either from their own culture… Continue reading What’s in a Name I
Nauroz Mubarak
Happy Persian New Year to Kianoush and my Iranian readers.
I am an American Now
I guess I can claim to be a real American now since I have got that quintessential American trait: monolingualism. Just kidding. But my language skills are getting worse. Especially in my native language, Urdu. I hadn’t written anything (yes, I mean anything) in Urdu since my college years, now more than a decade in… Continue reading I am an American Now