Imamat Day Mubarak
When our 49th Imam, Mawlana Shah Karim, passed on February 4, 2025, I remember wondering: how will I ever give anyone else his place in
When our 49th Imam, Mawlana Shah Karim, passed on February 4, 2025, I remember wondering: how will I ever give anyone else his place in
1. Pattern recognition superpower. My friends call me a “textpert” because I’m amazing at recognizing patterns. My precision in decoding text and uncovering underlying narratives
2024 was so hard. A part of me used to believe that because I’ve been through a divorce, moving to a new country, and a

Shortly after my divorce in 2016, I signed up for Professor Virani’s 2-week tour of Iran. With a bleeding heart and an estranged relationship with

If you’ve followed my journey, you know this was not possible a few years ago. I couldn’t be around my parents for more than a few hours
Part 1: How insecurity robs us of a happy childhood For as long as I can remember, I believed that my parents didn’t really love

In March 2019, I was invited by the University of Central Asia to speak at a TEDx event hosted by the students in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan.
Part 1 At age 32, I wrapped up my life in New York in two weeks and moved in with Amin, my 30-year old brother

On January 1, 2018, six days after I moved to Bangalore, I wondered: what if….I rescued a dog? I had seen this on Facebook a few days before. Ankit had been feeding this dog for a couple of weeks, but could not take her in because he was preparing…