Category Archives: Travelogues

The island of Manhattan is the heart of New York.  And like the human heart, it never sleeps.  Now the world’s most expensive real estate by far, 20 km long and about 3 km wide, it was purchased in 1626 … Continue reading →

“That a man can take pleasure in marching in fours to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him.  He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.”

Miami Manor was not just a collection of apartments, it was a community of Master’s and Ph.D students, some with families, nearly all from overseas.  Children played, jumped, see-sawed and swung in the little enclosure under the watchful eyes of … Continue reading →

It would have been no laughing matter had the over-sensitive US Department of Homeland Security been alerted to the fact that, in the driver’s seat of this American car with a New York number plate, was a Pakistani man with … Continue reading →

While the beneficial effects of physical exercise at the gym are obvious, repeated prostrations at mosques are yet to show results, if the moral standards and civic behaviour in Muslim countries are any guide.

“On this fabled coastline, redwood groves reach skyward, the Santa Lucia Range plunges into the sea, and waves are beaten to froth on ragged rocks. It’s a place of elemental power that can make human affairs seem inconsequential.”

(Published in Daily Times, 25 April 2012.  This is the 7th installment in the series “Across America & Canada by Road″.  All can be read here under the “Here & There” category)

(Published in Daily Times, 18 April 2012.  This is the 6th installment in this series.  For the first four installments, go to “Across America & Canada by Road, Part-1″)

This is the fifth instalment in this series.  For the previous four instalments, go to “Across America & Canada by Road, Part-1”

Last June I returned to the US after 20 years, driving over 17,000 km across USA and Canada with my wife.  This is the equivalent of seven return trips between Karachi and Islamabad, or three from Delhi in the north … Continue reading →