holydays

First, Happy Birthday to my dear Amma. & Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah to all my readers. I wish that 2006 brings joy and success to all of you and yours; peace to the Middle East; peace and prosperity to South Asia; jobs to pdcs and others who are seeking; diplomas to me and others who [...]

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I am miserable. Is it bird? Is it superman? All I know is that I don’t enjoy breathing through my gills. Used to be that Abba gee would recommend Hamdard’s Joshanda. But then, he recommended Joshanda for everything – including broken bones and hurt egos. I hated that stuff. It left this slimy after-taste. Usually [...]

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Too busy to post much. But do check out some of my Vermont photographs.

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These are the days when I feel cut off from everything … A joyous Eid to all my readers. Go get some mehndi; buy her some pretty bangles; make some badam-walli seviyaan [recipe at the bottom]; wear the swankiest, shiniest, newest clothes; and grab some eidi from your elders. In related news: A personalized Eid [...]

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All jots will get jotted down here. Who is pysched about the WS? I am. Mukhtar Mai was on ABC News of the World last night [as I was standing in the Southwest C line {why do I _always_ get the C card?}]. I couldn’t hear what they say. But, she is the Person of [...]

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I am going to have a weekend in Vermont, looking at the night sky. Then, I will be in Boston for the next week, attending some this or that. Any readers in the Hahvahd area, drop an email for a hail fellow, well met routine. I am good at those things. Posts will follow as [...]

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Here, to hoping that this one is less exciting than the one last year [hung our with The Decembrists, got my first speeding ticket in 10 years, someone broke into my car and stole my iPod and digicam and I grew one year older]. Ok, that last bit cannot be avoided this year, either.

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Nothing like rains in September to make me nostalgic and homesick and cranky and all that. Back in Lahore, this time of the year was usually the best time of year. Canal Road looked magnificent and the trees outside Physics Hall [my spot was on the yellow bench] dropped leaves in giant clusters that sat [...]

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Grover Cleveland thought he’d appease the public pissed off by his bungling of the Pullman Strike by declaring the first monday in September as Labor Day. He lost the election. Maybe The Chosen One needs to declare another federal holiday in September. Call it Homeland Day. I mean, its already started… we just need to [...]

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I honestly don’t read many blogs – severe lack of time being the primary reason. Hence, my blogroll remains stagnant unless one of my gentle readers comments and leads me back to their house. So, for Blog Day, I decided to highlight some blogs that I only get to read now and then but which [...]

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Ask. Comment. Converse. Narrate. Send me a note.

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It is that time of the year, again. I will be quite busy over the next few weeks. Things are gathering momentum and if I don’t make a stand, I might get swept away. What will you have of your lowly sepoy then? My crew, my peeps, my homies are also busy with things and [...]

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In the long answer to Sepoyís question of what the fuck is up with religion in America, I mentioned evangelist Rod Parsley as unknown, but should-be-known by people who care about such things as democracy, freedom, religious plurality and the rise of the Christian Right. While we still sleep here in North America to the [...]

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Most of you already know about the Oxyrhynchus cache; for those outside the classical world’s orbit, the documents, collected at the margins of a once-Greek ghetto at the Nile’s bed, from a humungous ancient trash dump, contain very, very old versions of Greek classics, the Bible, etc., thought to be unreadable. Turns out if you [...]

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My first experience with Tim LaHaye was as a horny preteen. On one sweltering Ohio afternoon, while visiting my Aunt Deb, and while also moving my bowels, I happened upon a paperback in their bathroom bookstack called The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love. Its cover featured a lazy couple necking, after a [...]

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St. Malachy comes back from the dead for each conclave. Reason being, in the 12th century CE he made a prospective list of Popes that culminate two Popes from now–at the end of the world. The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: The most famous and best known prophecies about the popes are those attributed to St. [...]

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Hi, My name is Manan Ahmed and this is my blog. I started CM a year ago. When I started the blog, I was teaching a class and I felt a bit apprehensive about them finding it. I did not know what shape CM would take. So, I decided to become Sepoy. And, the rest [...]

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