a bengali in TO

The personal, official blog of author Mezbauddin Mahtab

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

SF bound, iA

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So I am excited. I am leaving for San Francisco iA in two days, and not only will it be a break from the grey days here, we plan to head to ...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Rab Ne ... Sucks

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Dear Shah Rukh Khan, Why? Why? Oh, why? For nearly 15 years, you have given us movies that while wasn’t good all the time, was entertaining....
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

A Simple Inspiring Story From South Africa

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Every so often, as a minority Muslim living in a non-Muslim land, we are tempted to take the easy way out. I was surfing my regular feed of ...
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Friday, December 05, 2008

Eid, Er, Moooobarak?

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Monday is Eid, iA. I have to admit I am feeling a bit like Scrooge - I am finding it tough to get myself hyped up for this Eid. It's cal...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Slumdog Millionaire

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Along with Geeki and Mousehunter , a couple of weeks ago I attended a special screening of Slumdog Millionaire . I had been meaning to post...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

What rally?

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I don't understand this at all. This "market meltdown" makes no sense whatsoever. Look at today's Toronto Star . The headl...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Kazi Nazrul's Prophecy

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Kazi Nazrul Islam was a great Bengali poet who wrote, more than 50 years ago, on the condition of the Muslims. This is what he wrote in Beng...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Canada's Remembrance Day

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Canadians pause and reflect on Remembrance Day, which is held to commemorate the services of her soldiers and veterans. It is held on Novemb...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Obama Wins

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I remember, eight years ago when news filtered of Bush winning the 2000 election. Most of my Muslim friends in the US had been ardent suppor...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Golmaal Returns

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Is a very funny movie. Regardless of whatever the critics say. It's just, too, funny. That is all.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Cuddle Your Wife for $1 Million?

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May I never have Nasser Hussain's mentality. Here is the story summary. Allen Stanford, a rich Texas billionaire, has organized the rich...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Vacation Question

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So I was surfing Facebook and then I noticed one of my hijabi friends posted her vacation pictures. With nothing to do at lunch I clicked o...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Powell Endorses Obama

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I'm also troubled by, not what Sen. McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said, such things as, ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Of Elections in USA, Canada and Dubai

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No, no, there's no election in Dubai. But I do want to talk about them in a bit. First, my prognosis of the final US debate is up . It...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

US Presidential Debate 2 - Live Blogging

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I am live blogging the second US presidential debate town hall on my political blog .
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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Eid Mubarak with Shadher Lau

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Eid Mubarak, every body! We went down to Rogers Centre (a stadium here, hired for the day by Muslims), and prayed with over 10,000 other Mus...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Reflections Of The Night

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The worry was there on the guys with the clipboard. The target was high - it was half a million dollars. The times were tough - it was a rec...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

US Presidential Debate 1 - Live Blogging

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I live blogged the first US presidential waste of time debate on my political blog .
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Canadian Leaders on Ramadan

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Today I was pleasantly surprised to see an email from Stéphane Dion, the leader of the Liberal party and the Hon. Leader of the Opposition i...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Didigiri

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Somewhat disturbing, somewhat funny, and politically very incorrect. Dadagiri is a new reality Indian TV show on a youth channel called Bin...
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