Akbar had an enquiring mind and that can be seen in his interactions with various priests, maulvis and monks in...

One of the best roads I found in my Bihar trip (2019) passed through the village of the Mountain Man,...

In Islam, Thursday evenings or shab e Jumaa is believed to be blessed with a bright night, when Allah’s rahmat...

gulrīzī-e ashk bū-ye khūn dāsht īn subha zi khāk-e karbalā būd The flower-fall of tears was redolent of blood. This...

I had heard a lot about the Buddhist artwork collection in Guimet- perhaps the largest in Europe. What i found...

The gorgeous Armenian Church in Isfahan also known the Church of the Saintly Sisters, calked Vank which means "monastery" or...

The Iran National Museum in Teheran is a treat for the senses spanning as it does many glorious centuries of...

#SufiThursdays Last year I visited the shrine of Gul Baba in Budapest. Gül Baba was a member of the Bektás...

Magar jab shukr-e-ne’mat mein jabin...

A good time to describe the achiements and legacy of Abu Ali al-Husayn IBN SINA (980–1037), known to the west...

Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is the home for eternal rest to an eclectic group of people. All religions and...

My Uzbekistan trip, introduced me to what is possibly one of the earliest Islamic funeral monument in Central Asia: The...

The Shrine Uzbekistan has many Sufi saint shrines and I wanted to visit as many as...

I have travelled extensively by God's Grace and seen tombs and mausoleums all over the world. there are some like...

One thing that doesn't change are the tall stories told by guides. We had our share of them in Uzbekistan...

Shah Jahan gave orders for building a fort in Delhi in 1639AD and entered the “Qila e Mubarak”, as it...

In a city which is a living museum, one passes by monuments of antiquity and importance without realising what they...

#shair pays tribute to Seemab Akbarabadi on his birth anniversary Tere qadmon pe sar hoga qaza sar pe khadi hogiphir...

Who hasn't heard of Hyderabad's Char Minar? It was built in the 16th century and defines the city. But recently...

The most popular image when one googles majolica tiles or Uzbekistan tourism is the mausoleum of Shirin Bika in the...

Every mausoleum in Shah e Zinda in Samarqand is exquisite but one of the most breathtaking is the tomb of...

"Heart which has no divine mystery Should be broken into a thousand pieces" Mahmud Pahlavon I am in glazed tiles...

Mas'ūd b. ʿAbd Allah Bayḍawi* (Arabic: مسعود بن عبدالله بیضاوی) (d. 769/1368), famous as: Bābā Rūkn al-Dīn Shīrazī (Persian: بابا...

The arc ( citadel) of Khiva was built as a self contained universe inside Khiva. The mud walls ( will...

I had shared that the Jama Masjid, Delhi has relics attributed to the Prophet pbuh anf Hazrat Ali. This is...

Uzbekistan is full of madrasa, Sufi shrines and speaks of an atmosphere of learning and knowledge. One such place was...

On the facade of the Bukhara Madrasa is quoted the Prophet's famous hadith: It is the duty of every true...

All of us are familiar with the image of a rather corpulent Nawab Wajid Ali Shah wearing an angarkha in...

When Sultan Mohammad bin Tughlaq gave orders for the shifting of the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, he ordered Sufi...