Linux command line is a powerful and free tool. Using just few commands one can productively do powerful text analysis. In this quick tutorial I will demonstrate few of such Linux commands. [Read More]

A Quranic chapter is a world by itself. Quranic chapters in Arabic are called surah, and one of the two meanings of this word means a boundary wall. That is so because each surah is like a wall that has its own meaning and theme kept inside. [Read More]

The Quran started to reveal in Makkah for a total period of 13 years. Then, the Prophet migrated to Medina and stayed there for 10 years before he died and the Quran stopped to reveal. The 13 Meccan years were much different in nature than the 10 Medinan years. During... [Read More]

I believe the microfinance programs for rural women in Bangladesh and elsewhere are anti-poor and anti-women rather than pro-poor and pro-women. Muhammad Yunus loves to call it ‘social business,’ but they are in reality greedy business run by draconian loan-sharks. The word ‘social’ here is used for media consumption only.... [Read More]

I came to know that the father of modern Sociology “Auguste Comte” gave the term “social physics” to a discipline which later came to be known as Sociology. I liked this term: “social physics.” I think the founding fathers (in addition to Comte, the holy trinity are Durkheim, Weber, and... [Read More]