Yesterday, word suddenly reached me that someone close to my neighbour, a good friend of ours, had left for his heavenly abode. Since the de...

After work, if I don't have any studies to do, I usually tend to hang around with a few friends and either go to the gym or play some sp...

After yesterday's cracker of a World Cup final (India vs Pakistan), I could not believe when Shoaib Malik, captain of the Pakistan team,...

Sunset is just around the corner, and you are at an iftar party, getting ready to break the fast. If you were a non-Muslim observer, you wo...

The chilly winds of an early Fall morning in Toronto failed to numb her cheeks - they were covered under a thin black cloth. The woman in th...

So Ramadan will be here in two days. How are you preparing for it? I have two main goals this Ramadan. One is spiritual, the other is physic...

I am researching the marriage laws of a Middle Eastern country for a cousin who, if all things go well inshAllah, is going to get married th...

I was talking to another Bengali acquaintance of mine. I asked him how his weekend went, and he replied he had gone fishing for salmon to th...

A long time childhood crush of mine just had a baby daughter , leading me to experience a probably inappropriate twinge of regret that yes -...

I uncovered and showed mine to her. "Wow, that's big." She exclaimed. She slowly touched it. "Feels nice too. But my, it...

Q: How to tell a BBQ is a desi BBQ? A: Tea. We HAVE to have tea. No matter what the challenge, tea must be made. Tea being made over charco...

Khaleej Times recently published a very interesting article on Canadian desis returning to the Gulf. SUCCESSFUL Gulf-based Asians often hav...

Dear Diary, Does any one still read this blog? No? Oh, I guess it'll just be me and you then. You liked it that way, didn't you? I w...

Sometimes I am just amazed by how much it is that we don't know. Cat said to predict nursing home deaths Oscar the cat seems to have an ...

This post has been some time coming (not to mention it's the 400 th post too). It's been a wild ride. I can't believe that my f...

No spoilers - beyond the trailers. So this is what I had been doing for the last four days - each day I watched one Harry Potter movie, from...

I remember once I was in southern Georgia, US, on my way to Orlando, Florida. We stopped at this little town where a buddy of mine worked, t...

It would be nice if the BBQ set was, you know, ASSEMBLED, before the aforementioned picnic day. If it's your responsibility to bring th...

GM had this Chevy Transformers Night last night. Free movie premier (at a drive-in), plus food, drinks and entertainment at the Docks for Ch...

What's the first thing you think of when you think Canada? Cold climate and snow, right? Last month, we were having a nice spring. 20+ d...