Kayare the practising secularist on April 19, 2016Kayare goes to the durgah with me. There he sits down in the mosque area and chants the Kalima and soon slips into the zikr-e-khafi of the Kalima by breath alone. By quietly observing me, he has developed the alertness of entering the durgah by his right foot and exiting by the left. Having done […]
Kayare the Gandhian on April 17, 2016Kayare has been my friend since childhood. You can call it a superb stroke of luck; he has been with me in school, college and service. Now that we have both retired, we keep meeting at least once a week or talk on telephone for more than normal lengths of time. Kayare comes from a […]
Balochistan and equal opportunities of justice s on May 8, 2012Freedom of a slave from the master, freedom of children during vacations from schoolwork, freedom of certain rights given to persons as an honour, complimentary travel or occupation of a house or hotel room and freedom of expression are different forms of freedom. President Roosevelt in 1941 spoke of four freedoms, two of which are […]
Freedom hijacked on April 12, 2012I was in Britain in 1988 when the two ‘forbidden’ fruits were available for the taking: Satanic Verses and The Last Temptation of Christ. I could have taken both but took neither, knowing well that forbidden fruits taste sweeter because of the extra effervescence in the taste buds of the mind, besides the fizz in […]