Learning and Life

Farewell picture of my grandfather Abdul Ghani Hyder's return in June 1951 with the extended family. Research for names of those in Pic ...

کیا شادی قید بامشقت ہے؟   This post is triggered by FB posts which mentioned marriage as imprisonment with hard labor: "قید بامشقت...

My phuppi Tufail Fatima breathed her last yesterday August 23, 2021. She was 103 years of age. Her birth-year (called ism-tareekh  اسم  تاری...

Ism-e- tareekh ( اسم تاریخ) was the name computed from the year of birth. There are numbers assigned to each letter of the alphabet. Sum of ...

Sitting Sir Manzoor Ahmed Khan (English), Sir Nafees Siddiqui (English), Principal MKA Beg, Madam Shuja Zaidi (Headmistress), Si...

Self-awareness is the process of discovering deeper levels of intentions. Whenever we are disturbed and feel an urge to respond or act on a ...

One of the most memorable endings of a movie. I have thought a lot about the emotions and feelings generated by this movie since my early sc...

Forgive and forget rule for happiness!  The question to ask is whether you want to be happy or not! اے شمع تیری عمر طبیعی ہے ایک رات  ہنس کر...

Instructions to my PhD students: Please note that The taxonomy master and taxonomy detail are only a "structured" way of organizin...

Dr Zahir Ali Syed, Director of UIT (Usman Institute of Technology), was plucked from us yesterday June 11, 2021, in a murderous event remind...

I knew them both and their father Fauqul Hasan Zaidi. Fauqul chacha will regularly drop at our place for morning tea with my father and moth...

Last Shah of Iran How the kings are installed and propped by the great powers; Just finished seeing this BBC documentary about the shah o...

Imran Khan leadership style: Is IK trying to run the country exactly as he ran the captaincy of Pakistan cricket team?  Favoritism in pickin...

During lock down I was organizing the old stuff left by my father. In that I found some papers in old dilapidated state, crumpled. On closer...

I had experience of meeting someone who predicted the rain fall time precisely. It was 1983 in ziarat, our NED batch mates of 1980-85 were o...

CAD focus vs GDP neglect (IKnomics Hit) : "کرنٹ اکاؤنٹ خسارہ" CAD:  ایک صاحب کی دکان خسارہ میں چل رہی تھی- ایک دن انہوں نے فاتحانہ...