Category: Life
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Alif Laila Series of Ferozesons and my love for books
مجھے سب ہے یاد زرا زرا– تمہیں یاد ہو کہ نہ یاد ہو کس کو یاد ہے ان 6 کتب کی قدر مشترک؟ ملکہ شہرزاد حجام اور قزاق چین کی شہزادی گنجا لنگور سندباد کے سات سفر معروف موچی 1970 کی دہائی میں یہ کتب میری اسلام آباد میں “ملت لائبریری” کا حصہ تھیں جن…
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Tarzan and My Language Acquisition
ٹارزن کے جنگ اخبار میں روز شائع ہونے والے تصویری سلسلہ سے میں نے تقریباً 5-6 سال کی عمر میں اخبار پڑھنا شروع کیا– یہ 1967-68 کا زمانہ تھا– روز صبح امی، ابا یا بڑی بہنوں سے اصرار ہوتا تھا کہ وہ پڑھ کر سنائیں، اور شروع میں دو چار دفعہ ہر ایک نے سنایا–…
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Ikram Hyder Naqshbandi Naatia Kalam in Different Languages
میرے دادا کے والد سید اکرام حیدر (1854 – 1942) کی غالباً 1920 کی دہائی کا لکھا ہوا نبی کریم صل اللہ علیہ وسلم کی شان میں کلام، مختلف زبانوں میں بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم بزبان عربی للہ الحمد علی راسنا ار سلت نبی من نبی اقبل احکام شرقی غربی کان امی لقد ا…
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Remembering Feisal Rahimtoola and Conflicting Perspectives
Remembering Feisal Rahimtoola who taught us Principles of Management at IBA, Karachi in 1985 in my first MBA semester. His energetic style of teaching was distinctively unique while pacing from left to right moving from front to back and front, raising questions and answering the questions with good humor, while thinking aloud and exploring all…
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Preserving Old Handwritten Bound Manuscripts-Deewan-e-Baqa by Shah Abdul Ghafoor Manikpuri 1854-1930
This post describes how I am preserving the old handwritten poetic manuscripts written around 1880-1930. They had come to me in a bound volume as seen in the picture below. The binding was labeled Deewan-e-Baqa. Baqa being the poetic name, takhalus, of Shah Abdul Ghafoor Manikpuri. Baqa is used in several ghazal and poems in…
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Rauf Momani and Great Memories of a Lively Lady
Rauf Momani and Great Memories of a Lively Lady On 12th of April, 2023, Mrs Parveen Rauf Momani, my mother’s brother’s wife left this world to meet her creator. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon. May Allah give her the best of abodes in the hereafter. Aameen. Rauf Mamoo and Rauf Momani (1960) Rauf…
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Discovery and Rememberances of a 1951 Journey via Ship from Karachi to London onwards to Brazil
1991-11-09. This photo is just the start of the journey to Brazil whose vivid description and experiences are captured in the following letter by Good Beti to Nice Beti Good Khala face visible from the peep hole of the ship. She was leaving with her husband and family for Brazil; via Ship first to London…
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Sociology of Mail Delivery in villages
انٹرنیٹ سے پہلے خطوط کے زمانے کی طرز معاشرت شہروں میں کیا تھی (امریکہ سے میرے خطوط) ؟ نیچے گاؤں کی طرز معاشرت کا بہت بہترین نقشہ ہے ============ گاؤں کے خط، خیریت، بری خبر، ڈاکیہ، معاشرت از محمود زیدی دوستو، اپنے گاؤں میں دینو چاچا کے نام سے مشہور دین محمد صاحب آج اسی…
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All are Corrupt? All politicians are Corrupt? Logical Analysis of Sweeping Generalization
This is not a fatwa but pure logic. Please see the detail of this reasoning. All are Corrupt? If X says “all are corrupt” then All = X + X’s immediate family + X’s friends + everyone else in Pakistan. Let’s assume X is truthful: 1. As X knows himself very well, and if we assume…
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Companions of Hajj: Dekh mera Zauq o Shauq (See My Yearning and Passion)
Hajj kay Saathi (Companions of Hajj): Dekh mera Zauq o shauq (See my Passion and Yearning) In 2016, Arif bhai went for his second Hajj, and all through the trip, he kept on recalling the saathis (group fellows) of that first Hajj of 1996 which I also accompanied. When I talked on Skype with Arif Bhai after…
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Story of Mankind and the little bird on a mountain 100 miles high and wide
Last night I woke up at around 4am with this quote ringing in my ears. I read this book long ago, during my school days in 1970s. The book made a great impression on me then. About the immensity of time, it’s great expanse, our insignificance, and with all of our pomp and glory, our…
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Why children can not appreciate the value of how they are better off than their parents
When I see my fridge filled with ice cream for a couple of days and children not touching it saying that they don’t like the flavor, I recall my childhood when I used to yearn for ice cream for months and sometimes even years before getting to taste even a small serving. We did not…
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Playing with Fire: Confidence Building
Lighting up the fire for making tea during tracking and picnicking in the wilderness. Food cooking in scouting. We used to burn the bushes around our house in the wilderness when they have dried up in the autumn. They would grow during the summer monsoon to several feet high. Then they would dry up in…
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Imran Khan and Essential Leadership Requirements of a Leader
اقبال کے مطابق کسی لیڈر یعنی “میر کارواں” کے رخت سفر کے لئے صرف تین ضروری خصوصیات ہیں: نگاہ بلند سخن دلنواز و جاں پرسوز، جن کے زریعے ایک راہنما اپنے پیچھے چلنے والوں کو جوڑ کر رکھتا ہے، ان کو منتشر نہیں ہونے دیتا: نگاہ بلند سخن، سخن دلنواز، جاں پرسوز یہی ہے رخت…
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Prof A. G. Saeed of IBA, a role model of God fearing forth rightness
Prof. A.G. Saeed left for the hereafter on the 9th of May, 2022. May Allah give him the best of abodes in the hereafter. Aameen. He left IBA much before I joined as MBA student in 1985. However, heard a lot about him and other stalwarts in the group photo below. In my association with…
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Dr Irfan Hyder Youtube Channel Videos Topics and Links
I have come to the conclusion that social media especially youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and now even Google does not want people to remember chronologically and category-wise information that they have seen or even generated themselves. I am no longer able to see a list of all the videos that I have uploaded. It is only…
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A Drive on a Rickety Cycle and Sufistic Thought by Shah M Ismail Rauf
This is a story/article written by my dear mamoo Shah M Ismail written around 1953-55. Today September 8, 2021 is his 22nd death anniversary. He retired as Major in 1980s. He was great man who taught me how to love and play with children. Father of Faizan Shah, Faryal Osman Khan, Faraz Shah, Fariha Ahmreen,…
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Partition, Broken Families, Migration Ethos: Bharat ko Janey Waley by Fatima Khatoon
Farewell picture of my grandfather Abdul Ghani Hyder’s return in June 1951 with the extended family. Research for names of those in Pic and labeling them with numbers was done by Khurshid Alim Zaidi, a very painstaking task. My recitation of the poem Poem written by Phuppi Fatima Khatoon on the decision of Daday Abdul…
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Teachers at ICB/IMS
Sitting Sir Manzoor Ahmed Khan (English), Sir Nafees Siddiqui (English), Principal MKA Beg, Madam Shuja Zaidi (Headmistress), Sir Jan e Alam (Urdu), Sir Ghalib Raza (Urdu) This appears to be editorial board of Sumbul, school magazine
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The Art of Gentle and Soft Persuasion- Dr Zahir Ali Syed
Dr Zahir Ali Syed, Director of UIT (Usman Institute of Technology), was plucked from us yesterday June 11, 2021, in a murderous event reminding Karachites of how Hakim Saeed was taken away from us in a terrorist murder some 25 years ago. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon! He was a mentor to me…
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Fauqul Chacha and Family Help
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 mother during his break journey on his way from his home in F-6/1 to his office in the old state bank building which was being used as parliament building temporarily…