My trip to Berlin started on a very anxious note, which quite embarrassingly I cannot disclose here (my friends know what I am talking about). Anyhow, things went smoother once I boarded my Air France (Warning: avoid flying Air France) flight to the German Capital via Paris (where I missed my connecting flight and waited […]
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It has not come entirely as a shock to me. Neither was I expecting it to happen. It is certainly a shocking piece of news, nevertheless. It is an unprecedented attack on cricketers, though not on sportsmen by and large. One can never erase the Munich Massacre from his mind – an incident that left […]
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Yesterday, I was talking to a friend about the Swat Valley, which has been in the news for the past few days. It has come as a shocker to all of us without a speck of doubt. My friend also indicated that the next target is Karachi, after the Talibanization of the Swat Valley. It […]
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Is this a world of miracles
Or just pleasant incidents
Where thrills overtake adventure
And adventure conceives relief
An airplane (oh! Not the Queen’s Aeroplane)
Hit by a flock of birds
In the land of deadly eagles
Lands into the Hudson
And people hail it as “Miracle on the Hudson”
Fresh from another miracle
Of having a black president in the White House!
The pilot becomes […]
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Not exactly taking forward from where I left yesterday, I still can’t help saying that we live in a world of conflicts, and newspaper headlines every day are a harsh reminder of that. For the past two days, two historical and everlasting conflicts have been doing rounds of major tabloids all over the world, and […]
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Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me, and the entire human race
There are people dying, if you care enough
For the living, make a better place
For you and for me
- Heal the World, Michael Jackson
This world is a place of conflicts. Our inner conflicts. Conflicts between people, between relations. Conflicts […]
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Now, that’s what you call a president. Charismatic, dynamic, intelligent, intellectual and bloody fit, with less than an inch of flab. Barack Obama (Just when I am typing his name I realized that it is just a matter of time that Microsoft adds his name to the Word dictionary) has done well to flaunt his […]
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The Modern Folk Hero
In these times of global meltdown, there is no dearth of news that keeps you amused. The infamous shoe-thrower is already being idolized in anti-American countries and worshipped by anti-western sects. That comes as no surprise, but in a true Middle East style of paying tribute to a hero, a large […]
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The Shoe-Thrower
For two days, the Bush video has been doing the rounds in which an Iraqi journalist hurls his shoes at him. If you have missed the video, I heavily and emphatically encourage you to view it. It is just funny to see how Bush manages to duck at the last moment and evades the […]
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Merriam Webster declared a few days back that “Bailout” is their word of the year. That doesn’t come as a surprise for many because at least I heard about this term for the first time when the global meltdown hit the US and then infected the whole of world. A few days back I also […]
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