Levant is a name used to refer to the area around Syria and its neighbouring countries. Countries in this region are Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Syria. Palestine too is a part of this region. Historically, it has been referred to as Canaan in the Bible, and by the Arabic name Shaam later on. Shaam… Read More The Friday Quiz – #2
The first question in a series of quiz questions, and easy one to begin with: In 2004, Robert Crease, a philosophy professor, science historian and columnist with Physics World, conducted a worldwide poll among his readers on the greatest equations. Apparently 120 people cared to respond, and the joint winners were Maxwell‘s and Euler‘s equations.… Read More The Friday Quiz – #1
Wrote this way back around the ARAB SPRING. Just for the heck of it. This academic year was my last, and hence I have been extremely busy. Studies haven’t been the reason. In hindsight, they never were. This happened to be our placement year, and as such, one of extreme significance. The direction that our… Read More Stapler Pins
An artistic representation – courtesy: http://www.tumblr.com/search/the conference the birds A year ago when I was dead, I walked alone the lonely road; Thinking of nothing, I moved towards The icy chill of my hellish abode.
Look around, the world is weeping, Where am I, unaware and sleeping? Entrenched in dungeons I’ve built around me, Which my own eyes are unable to see. It’s my own world that calls for healing, That calls for help, for hope, for feeling.
The world around us is a very interesting place, and hence has been the subject of observation and analysis since times immemorial. Man has sought to study the world and his relation with it because it is one of the primary thoughts that occupy one’s mind as soon as the basic needs are taken care… Read More The Algorithm of Chaos
Woh kehte haiN main koii shaayar nahiN MaiN kehtaa hooN main tumsaa kaayar nahiN Shaayarii meiN chandaa kii THanDak hai TujH meiN suuraj kii garmii hai TujH meiN kaaToN kii sakHtii hai Shaayarii pHooloN kii narmii hai
The sea, blue, broad, and vast, stretched before me, endlessly, As I walked on the bed of sand without a trace of lea. The white waves broke on the shore with a crash, And then they disappeared from the land in a flash.
One day walked Zunnoon the Mystic down the forest by the river, When he saw a scorpion run to the stream with a quiver. And by the riverside, a solitary tortoise awaited, The mystic stood watching, amazed, animated.
On the 19th of November, 2012, His Eminence Allama Qamar – uz – Zaman Azmi blessed my native locality with his presence. The event was televised live on local cable channels. The venue for his talk was small and couldn’t accommodate the number of people that might have come if the event was publicized more… Read More Paigham e Islaam – The Message of Islam
A LAYMAN PERSPECTIVE 