I am Abdul-Baqi

When the Wolf wears Lamb skin

Horrors of the mainstream white America

Posted on June 14, 2020

Lots has been said and written about racialism in America these days. Joining the folks, I started to watch some documentaries and movies on the theme and thought to jot down an assorted list for others to benefit from. This is just my random pick and in no way it... [Read More]

Tags: WhiteSupermacy

It is complex to understand human

Posted on May 31, 2020

Robert McNamara the Defense secretary during the Vietnam war was a man of science and materialism. He would reduce anything complex into a bunch of charts and graphs. He would explain anything in quantitative terms with a number of indicators. For example, he would set a bunch of indicators and... [Read More]

Tags: poverty development

The Narrative of the Chosen One

Exploiting the false Story of David and Bathsheba

Posted on May 27, 2020

The greatest gift of God to Muslims is the Quran. The gift of the Quran is not limited to its text but the divine guarantee to keep that text intact from getting corrupted and mixed with man-made amendments. The Torah and Gospel were also divine texts, except that filthy hands... [Read More]

Tags: power WhiteSupremacy

Missing the Point

can we talk about why corona instead of how corona

Posted on March 13, 2020

And we will surely let them taste the nearer punishment short of the greater punishment that perhaps they will repent. [Read More]

Tags: virus corona

Seizure of your Lord

Corona the invisible army

Posted on March 9, 2020

A recent article in the New Yorker magazine goes as follows: [Read More]

Tags: virus corona

waiting for SDGs

is it like waiting for Godot?

Posted on February 21, 2020

In a fine 3rd Feb 2020 morning, I attended a lecture by Prof. Jeffry Sachs on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and his pessimistic view on the progress made by countries and challenges which SDGs are facing given the increasing hostility towards multilateralism and the tilting of powerful states like USA... [Read More]

Tags: sdg development

happiness without God

Posted on February 19, 2020

I was listening to a podcast where Richard Layard was giving a lecture at the London School of Economics about his book “Can we be happier”. I came to know that he is among the authors of the World Happiness Report along with Jeffrey Sachs and John F. Helliwell. [Read More]

Tags: happiness

getting out of the intellectual desert

Posted on January 7, 2020

I just wanted here to write anything after a long time. I am confessing an inner dilemma and sickness related to producing intellectual stuff. I have always felt that I have unique things to share with the world, but then when I wanted to sit and write an article something... [Read More]

Tags: knowledge internet Quran time

Privatization as anti-Human

Posted on August 1, 2019

The trend is clear. Elders of neoliberalism often force their anti-Human bitter pill to the developing nations sugar-coated-in false promises of job creation, efficiency, etc. When their commodity is an essential one, then the suffering of the poor knows no limit. [Read More]

Tags: capitalism neoliberalism

Listening and Reasoning

Posted on July 15, 2019

It is a unique characteristic of Islam that valuable information has moved from generation to the next through chains of authentic narrators [Read More]

Tags: reason