Jahane Rumi

In search of the unsearchable: O, my soul! where would you find your house?

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A red card for the SIM

Mar 13, 2010 11:37pm

Rakhshanda Jalil The controversy regarding the conferment of Qatari nationality upon M.F. Husain — and his acceptance of it — has given us the opportunity to revisit an old but neglected debate. The debate on being an Indian Muslim or a Muslim Indian is old hat; but the one concerning the...

Abr mi barad-o man shovm-e az yar-e judaa (The cloud weeps…)

Mar 13, 2010 1:26am

Amir Khusrau's lofty couplet Abr mi barad-o man shovm-e az yar-e judaa Choon kunam dil becheneen roz zedildar judaa. Abr baraan wa man-o yar satadah ba-widaa Man judaa girya kunaan, abr judaa, yaar judaa The cloud weeps, and I become separated from my friend - How can I separate my heart from my heart's friend on...

Karachi Literary Festival

Mar 13, 2010 12:28am

Oxford University Press and the British Council are holding a literary festival - first of its kind. The programme can be viewed here. KLF programme I am off to Karachi next weekend to attend this moot....

the two insomnias

Mar 10, 2010 12:48pm

“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.” * Jalal ad-Din Rumi...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Man Kunto Maula

Mar 9, 2010 12:31pm

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Rumi – Guest House

Mar 8, 2010 1:13pm

This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Peter Gabriel- Signal to noise

Mar 7, 2010 12:26pm

Peter Gabriel feats Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Signal to Nois...

Pak Nobel laureate’s Ahmedi status hurdle for documentary

Mar 7, 2010 3:09am

I was quoted in this story - a slight spin but an important point nevertheless.. Wednesday, March 03, Islamabad: Two young Pakistanis are battling all odds to make the first-ever documentary on the country's only Nobel laureate Abdus Salam though the going has not been easy so far because he was an...