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What Does a Privileged Childhood Look Like?
We often associate a privileged childhood, or privileged life, with a swimming pool in the garden, holidays abroad, lavish presents, luxurious lifestyle — and maybe someone else taking care of our chores. Our ideas are plainly focused on material benefits. However, as the author and philosopher Alain de Botton shows in his book How to… Read more
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Ayn Rand on Writing and the Subconscious
Ayn Rand presented an informal course on writing from her living room in 1958. Read more
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What The Quran Says About Hijab
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about Hijab and whether or not it is an integral part of Islam. To answer this question, we need to go back to the holy scripture of Muslims – The Quran. Read more
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The Lost Art of Love
IS LOVE AN ART? Or is love a pleasant sensation, which is a matter of chance, something one “falls into” if one is lucky? Many have pondered over this question, many still do, but as the societies evolved, we have moved away from the art side of it. After all, that makes love slightly-less-romantic as… Read more
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Mirabai’s Poems on Love and Devotion
As soon as we read the first poem by Mirabai, we know we are in the presence of someone who is unworldly. Mirabai’s poems take you to this unreal realm where you get immersed in the magic of literary beauty. There is no one else exactly like her in the whole history of poetry. Mirabai… Read more
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How a 16th-Century Historian Described Africa
Al-Hassan ibn-Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, better known as Leo Africanus, was probably born in the 1460s in Granada, the last Muslim toehold in Spain. He was then raised in Fez (modern Morocco), where his family migrated in the face of mounting Spanish military pressure. Educated in Islamic law, he entered the service of the Sultan of… Read more
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