I recently spent a little time in Ottawa at the city's annual Tulip Festival . The story goes that in 1945, the Dutch royal family...

Our local mosque, the Islamic Foundation of Toronto , holds a Spring Carnival every year. This year, with the weather being really nice and...

This is a beautiful poem a man wrote out of love for his mother. His mother had become a widow in Bangladesh at a very early age, and rais...

This is a surprise post as I had no plan to write on this. But I have to. As I see the wild fires ravaging Fort McMurray  (and a silent p...

Jian Ghomeshi was a somewhat famous radio personality in Canada. In 2016 he went on trial as some (three) women accused him of sex assaults...

I have been travelling in Toronto using the "better way" aka the subway aka TTC for the last 3 years. Since I get on at the end o...

I will be blunt - whenever I see an ad for an "Islamic" mortgage, or a commercial on how to finance your house "the halal wa...

Don't misquote me - being South Asian is a great thing. I used to joke with my wife that there are two types of people in this world. D...

Bajirao Mastani is the latest attempt by a revisionist agenda of corporate India to highlight any non-Muslim figures in the history of Indi...

Realize that no matter how close we are, 1971 is a sensitive topic. Never, even jokingly, refer to modern Bangladesh as 'East Pakista...

Nostalgia seems to be pretty big nowadays. Today I was surprised to see an article on nostalgia for Web 1.0 . Er, Web 1.0 , you ask. What...

I recently saw this picture on my Facebook feed along with a caption "What a shame". I decided to push on this. Why is it a ...

On the very same day that Canada's new government took office with a cabinet that was made up of 50% women, the RIS (the Reviving the I...

So on the subway today, as I was preparing to doze off until my stop, an elderly white gentleman seated beside me suddenly turned to me and...

No one really, really tells you how your life will change once you have kids. Every one is like, "aww... how sweet! You are going to ...

So recently at Walmart I suddenly spotted the Lego set 76026 on clearance, and picked one up. This Sunday, with no plans but to stay ...

So it has been a busy summer, and therefore a lack of posts here. Cottage. Now there's a word that has completely flipped its meaning...