While driving home in driving rain. Just love driving in the rain…. I am going back home after teaching art to twin girls. It is so much fun. While I was busy with the painting work, this morning, my mother sent me a text that we are having my cousin and his family over for lunch. …
Nadiya, Happy Birthday
“I think God changed His mind right at the end.” My Mom said to me when you were born. While expecting you, I was sure you were a boy, as you were very active. It seems she was right. You grew up to be a real tom boy, your favorite dress was tee-shirt with …
How I built a Studio apartment in my house.
– The synergy factor! Sometimes, you are faced with a situation which feels overwhelming, and quite impossible. But the fun part comes, when you end up doing something even more ‘impossible’ due to it. A synergy takes place, and you come up with an idea, which is completely new and thrilling. That is what happened …
My visit to National Library of Pakistan.
(My overwhelming visit to The National Library of Pakistan, Islamabad.) I have experienced in life, that …. everything really does happen for a reason. You may get to understand it or not. It certainly isn’t all coincidence. A few weeks ago, my mentor turned friend Abbas Husain called up, as he does, when he …
Negative propaganda hurts …. life can get scary anywhere.
Scenes of places around Seattle, when it got heavy snow during winter of 2008 (An article which I wrote while I was in USA in December 2008). Pakistan. Does the name ring a bell? Does it remind you of something you saw on television? Something which has some other words attached to it like ‘terrorists’, …
The Pakish Identity – A Book Review
A book dedicated to the teachers of Pakistan. By Danish Rahi. Last week, when I received a call from Danish Rahi asking me to speak on the occasion of book launch of The Pakish Identity. I found out the book was 364 pages, and my speech was to be between 3-5 minutes. I …
Hocus Pocus – without any Focus
When you are trying to do what you really want to do! Abbas Husain my mentor and friend often uses this terminology which is so blatantly true about our lives today. How can we focus? “Nothing can be achieved unless you allocate a time and place to it. –even if one of these is …
Master Painter
Just read these verses by Rumi…. . I think reading Rumi’s verses can actually make one a bit dizzy. They really tend to hit home. As life goes on, you realize that there are times where you just have to surrender and trust Him. Many times we do not understand what is happening to us. …
Media Power – eventful two weeks of July 2016
How their ‘coverage’ has exposed the media of the world. Within the last couple of weeks, so much has happened. First, Abdul Sattar Edhi – the greatest philanthropist in Pakistan, passes away on 8th July 2016. We were still reeling from that, and we hear on 12th July that Agha Nasir, the great …




