Ron Paul Comes Out Strong In Iowa Poll
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Politics, USA | 2 Comments »Mitt Romney might have won Iowa's Republican straw poll (as was expected) but Ron Paul's performance was credible too. He came in fifth with 9.1% of votes. Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to ignore him. The write-up at Washington Post ...
Iraq Four Years Later
Monday, March 19th, 2007 Posted in USA, World | 3 Comments »Iraq(2007) - Iraq(2003) = Immense Sadness John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, writes how things have changed over the past four years of American invasion of Iraq. After Baghdad fell, I would satellite reports back to London about attacks in which one ...
Great News
Sunday, March 11th, 2007 Posted in Self, USA | 5 Comments »People, I have some great news to share with you. Our team won the Integrated Business Plan (IBP) competition at the College of Business, OSU last Friday. There were 9 teams competing and some big names in the judges panel. Our ...
Incheon In NY Times
Sunday, March 4th, 2007 Posted in USA, World | No Comments »I never imagined I would read about Incheon in New York Times. I lived in that city for two years before coming to USA and it is to Seoul what Faridabad is to Delhi. Industrious but overshadowed. Will NYT now surprise ...
Zodiac Is Worth A Watch
Sunday, March 4th, 2007 Posted in Movies, USA | No Comments »Zodiac is a long movie at 158 minutes and the first hour seemed too long. The opening is gripping but then the movie fritters away till it picks up pace in the middle. The ending is a bit anti-climactic. The ...
The One With The Police
Sunday, February 11th, 2007 Posted in Humor, Music, USA | 3 Comments »The Grammys were announced today. The ceremony was opened by reformed pop group The Police - but it was a bad night for other Brits like James Blunt. I agree. The Police everywhere needs to be reformed. BTW, did BBC forgot to put ...
Honest Cabbie
Friday, February 9th, 2007 Posted in Society, USA | No Comments »Picture this scenario: On realizing that she has lost her bag of diamonds worth $500,000, an agitated woman called NYPD (New York Police Department) to inform them about the same. She thinks that the bag was most probably left in the ...
Finding Mr. Right
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 Posted in Humor, Overheard, USA | 2 Comments »BBC News has this interesting story of a ladies room conversation as it was accidentally broadcast live during a speech by George Bush at New Orleans. One woman to another about her husband: "Just a really passionate, compassionate, great, great human ...
WTF Moment Of The Week: Rediff.com
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Posted in India, Pakistan, Politics, USA, WTF Moment | 7 Comments »Today morning when I opened rediff.com, there was a very surprising headline at the top, "US didn't have guts to offer us same N-deal : Pakistan". Now, based upon previous record, at least one thing is certain; the Pakistani establishment ...
My Father - A Poem By Iftikhar Naseem
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 Posted in Books, Culture, Pakistan, USA, Urdu Poetry | 14 Comments »Through a post by Adnan, I got to know about Iftikhar Naseem. He is a Pakistani born poet who writes fine Urdu poems and lives in Chicago. He is homosexual by nature and it takes courage to come out, especially ...
