kitnay barson baad
kitnay barson baad tau baat ho rahi hai pas wo nahin lekin roz mulaqat ho rahi hai sulag rahay hain khud agahi ki dupahar…
Tumhe inn mausamon ki khabar miltee…
Tumhe inn mausamon kee kaya khabar miltee aggar hum bhee Ghuttan kay khauf say aab-o-Hawa tabdeel kar laitay Tumahari tarhay jeenay kaa hunnar aataa…
Eid Mubarak – and another winter of discontent
Eid Mubarak to all…. I would like to share an email message sent by the Rural Support Programme Network (RSPN) on the survivors of…
Discovered: A Raj Pistol in an Unclaimed Locker..
A great story from the Times of India MUMBAI: The British may have left us six decades ago but fascinating traces of empire continue…
Pictures from Delhi – Getting to Nizamuddin and Ghalib
My friend ST was in Delhi recently. After returning to Islamabad, he sent me the following pictures of his visits to the great locality…
Saare aalam mein bhar raha hai ishq
What dependent creatures we are.. Since last week, there is no power supply at my house. It has been a time of reflection and…
Muhammad’s Sword
Good old Uri is back with a great piece. Thank God it wasn’t written by another fundamentalist islamofascist….. Since the days when Roman Emperors…
By: Khushnood Lashari
“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand…
By: razarumi
Gulssss Thanks for visiting….as always you cheered me up. Hope you will contribute stuff to this blog? all the best..…
By: Khushnood Lashari
Dear Rumi, I was recently in India. The contrast in preservation of heritage couldn’t be starker. We simply burn daylight.…
By: Guli
Hey Razman!!! Kaun jaaney toon kaun? Yeah baby, sage-alicious!!! How’s it hangin’ man? Love, Gulz…
Architectural Neglect – Lahore again..
Random musings in continuation of the discussions on the construction of the 7 (or is it 5?) -star hotel in Islamabad on Adil Najam’s…
Let us prove all those who link Islam with violence wrong
Contributed by G.S. Qureshi Does verbal criticism of Islam or Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) justify setting churches afire in the West Bank…
Temporal’s poetic visions
Since I have discovered Temporal’s blog – Baithak- I get to read some enchanting poetry. What attracts me most is the sheer force of…
The Pontiff Apologizes
The Pope could have avoided this controversy by being a little more sensitive and by applying some discretion while selecting references for his speeches.…
five years since…
As again, am compelled to reproduce Baithak‘s evocative lines published on September 13, 2006. five years since the exclamations came down and the survivors…
Spam Attack – Thank You, Akismet and WordPress..
Today my blog was saved from a low-grade spam attack. Akismet detected 49 spam comments. The websites where the comments originated looked even less…
Revisiting Kabir – the Weaver, the Myth, the Master
When Sufi thought, an off-shore spiritual undercurrent to the rise of Islam, met its local hosts, the results were terrific.…
Indian mutiny was war of religion
India celebrates the 150th anniversary next year of the Indian mutiny or “first war of independence”, when Indian soldiers of the British army rebelled…
By: rama