To serve or not to serve on November 9, 2017Service to one’s community, religion, or nation has been a matter of great pride throughout history. Service in the armed forces to defend one’s motherland has been considered prestigious and draws the finest from the top echelons of society, even members of royal families enlisted in the British Indian Army. It was considered a matter […]
Home away from home! on September 9, 2017Dubai is almost an extension of Pakistan for most of us. From Lahore or Islamabad, it’s almost like flying to Karachi. Home away from home! Well, that’s for most of us who’ve been there umpteen times, but a vast majority of people only yearn to visit the city of lights in the desert on the […]
Istanbul… any day! on September 6, 2017Napoleon Bonaparte once famously said that if the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital. That has held true to this day as its one of the most vibrant, cosmopolitan cities on the planet, literally sitting on two very diverse parts of Asia and Europe. What brings these diametrically opposite cultures together […]
Kyoto sublime and peaceful on July 22, 2017After a weeklong exhaustive tour of the modern day capital of Japan, Tokyo, we set off for the ancient capital of Japan, Kyoto. We arrived at the Tokyo Station, a modern glass edifice from where the famous Shinkansen Nozumi bullet train whisked us away to Kyoto. The concrete jungle of Tokyo gradually gave way to […]
Tokyo the land of museums, towers, sumo wrestling matches and bay cruises on July 12, 2017Japan, the land of the rising sun, jam-packed intersections, blazing neon signs of Shibuya, bullet trains and the infamous Mount Fuji rising above a sea of rice paddy fields is what we think of when we hear of this incredible nation. It is all that and much more. Japan was never my bucket list travel […]