Of Festive Feasts And Historical Narratives
Turkeys do not look forward to November and December. We do. Thanksgiving has long been my favourite holiday tradition in...
Friday, January 21, 2022
Happiness And Healing: Deloms And Storytelling In Bhutan
Our culture thrives on the art of stories. It has been embodied by story tellers who wove magic and created...
Of Symbolism, Ecology And The Trees In Our Lives
In these days of climate change and ecological conservation movements, it is important to see living beings as being more...
Rediscovering Humanity: Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
The last couple of years have brought about a resurgence of the debate on race, caste distinctions and slavery within...
Can We Possibly Be On The Right Side Of History After The Noor Mukadam Case?
This month, more than ever, has shown the importance of acknowledging the inequities of mental health, inequality and injustice. Ethics...
Hamnet and the State of Being
It is standard fare to read Shakespeare at high school or so I thought – but these days high school...
Extraordinary Realities: Journey between the Virtual and Real
There are many ways to live and prisms to make sense of life as we see it. Writers process the...
Of Patriarchy and Productivity
MOMINA AIJAZUDDIN ON OUR BLIND SPOT IN MEASURING GDP: WOMEN’S DOMESTIC LABOUR THAT REMAINS UNPAID, UNVALUED AND UNRECOGNIZED
Hidden Valley Road and Navigating mental health
We are all witnesses to this scenario: a distant relative is spirited away and kept in seclusion, after which those...
Of Roots and Wings
This week’s tragic killing of a Muslim family in a hate crime in Canada was followed by a number of...
On Diaries and Memory
Oscar Wilde once wrote that memory is the diary that we carry with ourselves. I have long been fascinated by...
The Magic of Bees
This is the month of cicadas in Washington DC, where hordes of them take over the city – they emerge...
Vaccine Haves and Have-Nots: The New Normal
In some ways, vaccinations and the ability to access them will be the great new inequality, separating developed nations from...
All the World is a Garden
I will never forget the day when we visited the gardens of Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, UK. I was a...
Biltmore: Lessons from the Vanderbilts
Spring brings forth a sense of renewal and rebirth, a time to reflect on destiny – and on whether one...
Discovering Silence via the Sound of Metal
BY MOMINA AIJAZUDDIN
Return of Spring: Nowruz and Beyond
BY MOMINA AIJAZUDDIN
A Mathematical Path to Paradise
BY MOMINA AIJAZUDDIN
La Dolce Vita and Virtual Culinary Travels
BY MOMINA AIJAZUDDIN
Of Tsundoku, Bibliomania and Literature Festivals
MOMINA AIJAZUDDIN REJECTS THE “DE-CLUTTERING” ATTITUDE TOWARDS BOOKS, WITH LLF 2021 IN THE BACKDROP
Cultivating Resilience through Turnip Pickles
BY MOMINA AIJAZUDDIN
Mad about Painting – Waving at Hokusai
By Momina Aijazuddin
On Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
By Momina Aijazuddin
The Lens of Caste
The year 2021 has had a dramatic start and as I write this in Washington DC, reputedly there are more...
Revisiting the Black Wave
Momina Aijazuddin Saeed on the insights offered by Lebanese-Dutch writer Kim Ghattas
Solidarity, one plate at a time
Momina Aijazuddin Saeed on a chef’s initiative to serve those most in need of good food – with dignity
News and views which are not fit to print.
NSP: Content and Challenge
The PTI government claims to have formulated a...
Is Russia Going To Invade Ukraine?
The world is on the brink of another...
