So it looks like my trip to Bangladesh is not going to happen this Christmas. My dad was watching the Bengali news (only person in the house...

W ow. I am humbled. My post Better Than A Thousand Months " on the last night of Khatam-e-Quran during Ramadan has been nominated unde...

I was the witness to a friend’s wedding recently, and accompanied him to City Hall when the couple went to obtain their marriage license. W...

Anyone who knows someone who can score me cheap tickets to Bangladesh over the Christmas period, with stopovers in Dubai/London/both please ...

D ear Diary, I was made aware of two facts of life over this weekend. Fact 1: If there is a poem that makes no sense, lie like hell to girls...

M y mom told me to watch this movie called Vivah because it is full of "cultural and traditional" values. How cool is that? I hav...

O ne of my friends got into nursing recently. The first time I met him , he was picking his major for the second year. I asked him what he w...

At the Vatican: Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, meets the Pope [ Source ]. So to meet the Po...

I magine my surprise on reading a research on gender-segregated classes in Canada! When I was in high school in the Middle East, Bengali cla...

S o I was thinking about hypocrisy and the dual nature of many people. Let me start with myself. I will get in the car and say the prayer yo...

T hanks to Em for alerting me to this fact. So Bangladesh is no longer no. 1, having fallen to no. 3. While successfully kicking Pakistan an...

I recently went through a car accident, an experience that gave me a first-hand taste of low and dirty tricks that people can pull when inv...

S outh Asian children can tackle a host of challenges that kids from other races probably don't have to go though. Our parents have the ...

Don Obviously the big one. Any movie starring King Khan is big, and this was no exception. The hall on Saturday night was packed. The movie...

I called up the hair styling salon where I go to get my haircut and asked if my hair stylist barber was present. She wasn't. She is on...

A (funny?) post for "Bollywatchers". So we went to Woodside to see an Indian movie. They showed the trailor of the multi-starrer ...

N owal started this debate and I am taking the topic a little further. She links to a NY article where the author bemoans the fact that wo...

I hate liars. There's the type of lie that I can understand. For example if you are unemployed for the time being but are ashamed to ad...

A Very Happy Eid Mubarak to everyone. T here is a song from the movie Duplicate . It goes something like ' Ek Shararat Hone Ko Hai '...

I t was over. And then it began all over again. A hush had descended across the congregation as the imam started to recite Surah Naas , the ...