Ramadhan means practicing fearing Allah, accepting the little things that one has achieved, and preparing for departure from this world to the Hereafter. By accepting…
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Bye Bye Ramadhan
Author: Tajamul Hussain
Omar, the commander of faithful
He took buckets on his two shoulders, always riding his donkey without the saddle, rarely laughing, and never joking with anyone. He owned one shirt…
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Where’s Mr. Right?
Male and female approaches to pairing have intrinsically conflicted agendas. They assess one another’s mate value from perspectives, based upon their differing reproductive agendas/capacities. The…
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Pragmatism, not utopianism
In any other country, can you imagine hordes of youngsters passing out of IITs and IIMs and then forsaking more than a couple of millions…
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Middle-Aged: The Whiz-Bang Stuff
Adolescence and middle-age are so often viewed negatively. As the two constitute half of our lives, it means, half our life is spent in problematic,…
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On romanticising the past
In the distant and dismal past, the family is gathering around the hearth (Daan) in the dark, dingy kitchenette (Daana-kouth) of the old, dilapidated multi-storeyed…
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The colourblind ‘me’
For many years I was wronged to believe that a colourblind saw the world black and white when a medical student casually asked me to…
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(While pointing to the basketful of brinjals window-dressed in a vendor’s shop, Akbar casually quizzes, ‘Birbal, do you see yonder brinjals, aren’t they a nasty…
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Men, the weaker side
Men have a weaker immune system. They’ve fewer infection-fighting T-cells. The male fetus is prone to miscarriage and stillbirth. Newborn male deaths are frequent; sudden-infant-death…
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On picking up my pen
In the days of yore, when I started my career, I was avalanched by concerns like promotion, posting, office politics, confidential reports, pushing files, attending…
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