My interests and curiosity range across the universe: Usama Khalidi
WHEN I STARTED TO DISMANTLE MY LIBRARY in anticipation of a move to Washington DC area, I experienced an epiphany as I began emptying the shelves and boxing up the…
“Turkollu” that’s history for you.
On the long taxi ride from the airport to our hotel in Marmaris, Turkey, it was easy to make friends with the cabbie when we declared our common Muslim faith.…
My American Avatar: Usama Khalidi
Thousands of young backpackers streamed through the Munich youth hostel during 1970-71when I worked there as one of a handful of staff checking in young people of variousnationalities, Americans mostly,…
The Ahsan Family
Ikram Ahsan in his teenage was known to be a prankster among his large number of friends in his Mallepally neighborhood of Hyderabad. One day, he led a team of…
From Osmania to Birla Mandir: An Uneasy
I wrote this article for a collection of essays on the army-led merger of the princely state of Hyderabad State into the rest of India. This collection of essays was…
Our Identity in America
Nobody ever gets any kind of rights there no matter how long they have lived there Everybody everywhere has a particular ethnicity and an identity. Its importance totally depends on…
Our Mughal History
The great Mughals of India who ruled the Subcontinent from 1527 to around 1803 In common American usage, a mogul means a powerful or influential person (e.g. Hollywood mogul or…
