How to Live a Life of Adventure

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear “adventure”? Did you think of Indiana Jones? I don’t know why, but for the longest time ever, adventure for me meant a mission to exotic places, a hat and a whip. But of course,...

Are you even capable of reasoning with someone?

To reason with someone, you need to entertain other person’s thoughts with your own. You need to compare the other opinion with your own. To do this honestly, you actually need to allow for a possibility of your own opinion being wrong. This possibility, this...

Is This what Your God wants?

As the drama right after Salman Taseer’s murder unfolded on GeoTV here, I tried to explain to Akhtar (the servant watching the TV with me), how this Qadri has tried to punish a supposed blasphemer (as of course, nothing Mr Taseer said could be put within the...

What is opposite of happy?

What is the opposite of Love? It is not hate. It is indifference. The simple truth is out there. If you love some one, some thing or some ideology, you have to give a damn. Hate is the other side of the same coin. What is opposite of happy? It is not sad. It is bored....

Finding my god

Finding God has a lot to do with defining God People talk a lot about finding God. What they are really saying is that they are ‘defining’ God. Your god is defined by your actions. Period. You may claim to believe wholeheartedly in Allah, in Yahweh, in...