Letter to the Westerner on March 25, 2020Dear Neighbor in America and beyond I know this is a trying time for us all. Only yesterday life seemed normal. Everyone was going to work. Kids were in school. We came home. Cooked and had dinner and readied ourselves for the rest of the week. Except a few weeks ago, when we heard about […]
Beyond Politics: The phenomenon of us vs them on December 23, 2019We live in a divided, partisan world. Whether it’s governments, countries, parties, families, or individuals, we as humans, move in packs, like animals. It is the instinct of survival that bonds humans together. From systems of monarchy to modern electoral democracy, life is a race based on groups supporting each other in order to keep […]
The psychology of violence: the psychosis of inner rage on December 9, 2019Following the recent London stabbings by a Muslim male, the topic of hatred, violence and murder have once again hit the headlines. The UK PM Boris Johnson opined publicly that men like Usman, who killed innocent Londoners, were a breed that had no chance of rehabilitation. That the British Justice system released someone deemed without […]
The psychology of violence — stabbing in London on December 4, 2019Usman Khan, a twenty eight year old British citizen with Pakistani origins, was killed yesterday by the British Police, in a terror attack on the London Bridge, after he stabbed two people to death and injured three others. A group of young men disarmed him with fire extinguishers and held him down until armed police […]
It Takes A Village To Rape A Child: book review on November 28, 2019It Takes A Village To Rape A Child is my journey through physical and mental hardship as a child growing up in Lahore during the 60’s and 70’s. I wrote this novel at the age of fifty nine, a few years after the passing of my mother. I wanted to write about my journey because […]