Tag: F.S. Aijazuddin
Cursory knowledge – F.S. Aijazuddin
A BOOK is a human mind compressed between two covers. A library is an orderly arrangement of books. And a virtual literature festival...
Into the sunset – F.S. Aijazuddin
RETIREMENT is a dress rehearsal for death, but with the additional burden of recurring costs.
Pakistan has a population of about 230 million, give or...
Unburied conscience- F.S. Aijazuddin
CERTAIN events in a nation’s history (however traumatic) need to be retrieved from the cupboard of memory. One such occasion occurred 50 years...
A horned dilemma – F.S. Aijazuddin
THE unthinkable seizure of the US Capitol building on Jan 6, 2021, has an analogy in Leonard Wibberley’s book The Mouse That Roared (1955)....
A forgotten son- F.S. Aijazuddin
TO Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the 12 gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal...
Unhappy X’mas- F.S. Aijazuddin
WHAT has mankind done to itself? World wars, global warming, lemming-like migrations, and now Covid-19. Will we ever see an unclouded morn again?
When January...
Paper sovereignty – F.S. Aijazuddin
ONE’S first instinct, upon being confronted by a 768-page tome of memoirs by a former US president, is to go directly to the Index....
Faith and courage- F.S. Aijazuddin
I HOPE I still have the courage to acknowledge the Judaic DNA strain in my faith, for my spiritual genes are the umbilical...
Armchair grief – F.S. Aijazuddin
COVID-19 and politics have made grief an armchair activity. One quarantines us from the present, the other isolates us from the past.
Recently the death...
All common men – F.S. Aijazuddin
A HUMAN BEING may lose weight on a treadmill; striding in the same spot on a political treadmill, a prime minister risks losing credibility.
The...