Humayun and Ramzan Cricket

Posted on September 6, 2009
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Owais Mughal The advent of Ramzan has reminded me of the following anecdote. Humayun (1508-1556), which we are all familiar with was son of King Babur and father of Emperor Akbar. If you want to know how Humayun looked like some 500 years ago in brisk colors then to the right of this text is […]

When Police Resorts to Poetry

Posted on August 16, 2009
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Owais Mughal Have you ever thought of a situation where a policeman nabs a bad guy red handedly but instead of putting handcuffs he softly utters this verbal warning in very polite Punjabi: nayeen labhday laal gawaache tu matti na pharol jogia and the bad guy replies: gunah ka apne motarif hoon, ye iltija hai […]

When “Bicycle Dogs Fail” in Pakistan

Posted on July 28, 2009
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Owais Mughal Eons ago I used to have a Sohrab bicycle. After a million revolutions of the wheel and few rotations of earth, it developed a certain mechanical fault. The fault was beyond my capabilities to repair so I took it to our street corner bicycle shop. The owner and chief mechanic of this shop […]

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