this season of monsoon presents lovely looking aromatic dishes that are easy to cook at home, starting from kabli dal, shahi panir-makhane curry , kesri, sesame chicken balls, spicey baingun, badiyan - chawal salan, hyderabadi mirchon ka salan, aam ki nav ratan chuntney, achar mix, to keep the family atmosphere pleasant, cooking can be fun , a challenge and creative art, a science a hobby , a passtime , useful and neccessary guide to happy eating
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a tropical Old World solanaceous plant, Solanum melongena, widely cultivated for its egg-shaped typically dark purple fruit of nightshade vaiety
the fruit of this plant, which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable ,that originated in eastern burma , introduced to the modern western world some one thousand five hundred years ago, english names are eggplant and aubergine, punjabi bataun, sanskrit vitanka, arabian baunjan, sindhi vangan
imraz was very tired, the dusk was colouring orange sunrays to inky black quickly, he wanted a hot bath and good food, driving back he thought it was a long day, he took a turn three well dressed women shouted for help, it was a lonely road, less traveled , their car had had a engine problem, one of them was crying out she needed immidiate medical attention they said , the reason they were on that road, he was obliged to drive them as fast as possible on their directions to the linking road that connected the new sagara city with the airport, the flashing lights drowned them suddenly , there was a huge party on the swing the women were embraced by the dancing youth, the three of them were swallowed up by the crowd , they were treated like VIPs, he was left out there standing alone
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woman is segregated from birth, she is instilled she has certain duties to perform if she has rights to execute, in the past sixty years woman has changed her profile globally in all aspects and holds important position in skilled professional fields , besides being a mother, home maker, family caretaker , she raises children successfully and is also a pilot, doctor, officer, factory worker, harvestor, worker in the field, she has crossed many milestones of responsibilities yet her journey of success is not yet over , its incomplete, she has to go a long way, introducing rahat wafa a new upcoming urdu writer whose thoughts enrich the minds of her readers and associates equally .
the holy month of mah shaaban--the gateway to the holy month of ramzan al mubarak is here , nabi salallahoallewassallum spoke about special spirituality filled night of shabbaraat in mah shaaban when it is time to ask for forgiveness and faithfully practise righteousness , the devout plead on this special occasion of communion with almighty for safety security and happiness in life -amin
faridi always takes his friend and associate hamid on his complicated multiple cases those faridi solves , noma a black marketeer woman leads him to solve also the case of the drug lord who gives lessons on how to scientifically and systematically manage drug business , noma wants to use others for her business supremecay, , but khan wajahet thinks faridi is involved with her and takes a wrong cut tells faridi to hamid who was sidetracked so as to not interefere with the plans faridi had made
it is but human nature to be uncontrolably greedy, fatimah tells the lady advocate salha abadalkarim that her daughter husnah was burnt alive , she suspects her son -in-law mushtaq ahmed , but there is no evidence as it may be the will of god, the lady advocate not only helps the poor woman but also brings the culprits to book,
roger calls the police , his wife at home was threatened by fredrck wanted for a bank robbery case in cleaveland , when roger returns home all the cabinets , shelves were swept clean, his wife monika was also missing , so were her clothes and the money he had hidden beneath the clothes
roger baker boards his flight from cleaveland to south band where he realises he has mistakenly exchanged his own bag with fredrick"s of chicago, in the bag were stacks of big dollar bills, he gets a call to send the bag through cargo, but roger could not give up the easy money so quickly , he makes a plan to keep the money and return the empty bag
be prepared for every soul shall be asked five questions
- how was his life spent
- how his knowledge was used
- how his living was earned
- how his earnings were spent
- whether his physical being was useful spiritually
it is useless to miss the past gone with yesterday, it is no use being apprehensive for future for tomorrow may or may not come , all one has is today in the present , live it fully
1905, uganda, the writer reminiscents his life when he was posted there , his boat capsizes for he had no knowledhe of rowing, he was afraid of crocodiles he could not swim back, the snakes roamed turning him to staue, elephants were higher than the tallest tree standing above the long grasses double the size of normal trees, tribal warring men appeared from nowhere notorious to finish off outsiders, camping on his way to congo he decides to join the brigade of elephant hunters
what if someone develops an extraordinary sense , discovers that he posseses extra sensory perception, the narrator smells roses in his victims, targets and thus is able to catch them, getting quick promotions for solving his cases as a police officer who actually wanted to be a professor is decorated with medals one day realises he may have been erring at times
arifah and farzana are friends , arifah married to liyaqat is not as well off as farzana"s husband, arifah a great show off habitually borrows her friend"s gold jewellery, liyaqat makes a plan of keeping the borrowed gold away for a while to teach her a lesson, farzana"s husband schemes to lend imitation gold and ask for pure gold when arifah returns it
life seems miserably dry, uninteresting, listless without enough money to spend on what one wants to enjoy most, gheler sipping his beer at holiday inn thought he needed some thing to do , the proprietor called him , katty a waitress at the inn was found strangled to death in an apartment by the highway, ghelger was to find her parental family in the remote village of prosperity in california for five hundred dollars that brings back light to ghelger"s eyes
back at the hotel three hours later riaz turns up trembling wreck , he tells her four masked men of aziz kamal had arranged to rob the bag , instead of giving it to their girl who had slipped from the stairs they had thrown it at some other girl standing there, zoya froze, the bag was in her car parked in the basement of the hotel, she decides to keep the money
zoya and riaz make a scheme to go to pakistan from dubai on behalf of their company to strike the deal with a business party in their office, since kamal aziz was sure to get seben crore in cash riaz could easily steal it, when the deal was done zoya was in the passage a masked man threw out the bag of cash in her direction that she caught and drove off thinking it was riaz"s plan
zoya was very serious as she started to narrate her story that she wanted to share with gulrez--she was once married to a well off suitable man in dubai, she had dreams of becoming extremely rich and lead a easy life , she leaves him to take up a job in kamal aziz"s company whose manager was riaz who kept all information about his master and the company secret, she provokes him to break away from it , to set up their own independent life with seven crore the company would get
gulrez gets directions from zoya on his cell phone to meet her urgently at a general store, where he sees her buying a huge pack of juice, she ignoring him completely goes out , looking absolutely changed, she drove him to a posh locality , the house had dark glasses, eveything seemed so dubious, he lets her know that he was aware of her true identity that she was faujyah
jack lemon is a private detective, roger while returning in the evening is attacked by someone unidentified , he also gets threats in written and verbally, the message is clear that he could be again attacked , his wife maria is frightened naturally, they hire the detective"s services, who begins questioning the victim in private, not getting proper response jack tells him to be truthful or it would be impossible to find the culprit
when a true person sincerely asks for forgiveness god happily accepts his prayers, so when it was the writer"s turn to forgive he too did so quickly enough, he forgave husn kamal nizami , mentioned once in a previous story -jhoothi gawahi
One day fletcher window shopping notices a small curio shop, there were bottles of different shapes sizes colours arranged on shelves , the propietor extremely surprised stood unreactive in ages to see his first customer, fletcher chooses a bottle with smokey form of a genie inside it
man is thankless by nature, fletcher franklyn spent his time in odd corners, curios shops, leafing through magazines , watching beautiful pictures of lovely models, till the age of thirty five he had expected to marry someone extraordinarily beautiful, time passed by
meriya was a thirty year old miami woman, she arranged package tours and running a travel agency, her friend had a fiftyfive feet long motorboat docked at the harbour near his house, he gave her ten percent commission on his profit, the season was over and the last group of two couples arrive from the north who wanted them to take them to the bahamas on a ten day fun trip, they start off the next evening some one hundred nautical miles away along the shores
the egyptian army turns back from damascus with the sultan alzahir, trusting ibn khaldun to be able to influence taimur lung not to destroy damascus, it was impossible to meet taimur lung, ibn khaldun in a basket tied to a rope slips down into the fort surrounded with army to meet taimur lung who gives him the task of writing down history, facts and figures of his life
back in tunis ibn khaldun declares he just wanted to complete his books, not wanting to get himself involved in court politics any more he stays out, yet his rivals are threatened by his influencing presence, the vessel carrying his family wrecks, his entire family on board killed he goes to mecca in saudi arab for solace that he finds there till the sultan alzahir inducts ibn khaldun in his army on his way to qahira where in his absence civil war had started
at the age of twenty ibn khaldun did not understand the undercurrents of political powers, their rise and fall, but by the age of forty he had become a trusted advisor, historian, philosopher, guide in africa where he was sort after , he completes his muqdmah ibn khaldun in four years, to get more research done in his field he needed to go back to tunis
twenty year old ibn khaldun was an intelectual scholar, he becomes court document copy writer to the sultan abu ishak hafsi, he had to write on official documents at the court just bismillah, alhamdallah , shukrallah, not very difficult for him, rather easy, not challenging at all for his highly skilled talents, soon he relised that tunis was a weak country situated near the city of constantinople
- O, God! Bless me so
- The house I live in may become my home
- The day running after distant light
- Tired is it, let it close up
- I pray for life too much now
- If possible make my prayers ineffective
- The morning star is about to disappear
- Someone let my Sun know of it
- If I live cut off from my dreams
- Destroy me, tear down lands
- Just my land is my only last resort
- I may or may not live--let them be
- Who speaks is not as much of importance as
- What is said is-jigar
imran and his group were being chased at night , in ten minutes they had to reach out of their captors" reach a bear attacked, imran who like a monkey in circus showing funny tricks inspired mostly by action movies was on a tree branch hanging upside down grimacing, rahul moaning , wounded lay near by, , the lights flashed close by indicating the police in ten minutes had come quite near
garry and jerry were two twin brothers born late to their parents when they were in their mid forties, garry a sharp -witted brainy man becomes a reporter, jerry a trainer in a maryland security firm , who every morning watches TV news getting ready to leave for work the news pleases him about the death in prison of a certain hardcore criminal who was to be the next mafia don in newyork
- The ones we stand by
- Forget us by and by
- The world specimen of helplessness
- Peaple come , go and pass by
- No friend is left of his-whose
- Friends are tested
- My fate in water written dissolves
- As house made in sand
- Who trusts his word
- Who makes false promises
- Hoping to get support from
- Whom hurt inflicted shah rome is now
it was a routine day for the practising doctor of medicine , but the day was different in the sense a patient in a wheel chair was pushed in, he was deathly pale, his both lungs had failed , no chance to survival, the doctor sees hopelessness in pleading eyes , he suggests him to go to Nice , to give up grains, meat and liquor, drink rainwater mixed with iodine every other day and stick to water course for six months in nice as the last choice, six months later the man walks in, tall, elegant, extremely healthy , his grand godly physique , his attitude and thankfulness showed off his personality to the fullest , but the doctor shoots him down with his revolver in the drawer
Marlyn checks out of the hotel, she at the counter was told to wait as the taxi would arrive shortly, she felt that peculiar creepy feeling of being watched, there were shrubs and hedges surrounding the compound, she walked up to the nearest hedge and called out in, spanish, german, russian, italian and french to who ever it was lurking to come out, hearing a rustle she looks more closely into the hedge there lay breathing his last a man wounded fatally, unable to speak to her, she removes from him the wrist watch that looked familiar, his diary from his pocket and his wallet, she heard the taxi arrive, in the taxi she looks at the wrist watch , how could she ever forget it, it belonged to david hawk
marlyn "s first rented car was blown up with the delivery man, she hires another small one , driving it herself she notices a black mercedes following her, every turn she cut it was there , , she slows down , one of the men steps out waving his hand, she shot up her car like a bullet, marlyn starts to drive up the hill on the steep climb meant for the cavalry in the past, through the olive groves ,on either side were snow capped mouts, a dam half way up , the long car was not able to follow her any more , soon she reached the top , the enchanting view of monte carlo was before her
marlyn and angela get down from the cab, The FBI car takes them to the hotel where the senator waits for marlyn with sheikh ahemed"s file, whose daughter was gone missing from her school in washington DC , the sheikh was the most powerful man who could stop or trigger petro- wars, playing the key role in international ties, though marlyn"s secret service was dissolved she still was keeping the records safe , she was called because she had successfully brought back the senator"s friend"s abducted daughter
Marlyn tells her secretary to find one female assistant in minutes to accompany her on a mission, she should have attributes of looking innocent, be a great fighter, intelligent , fearless, the substance that makes one a good agent, she boarded the flight , the assistant promised did not arrive, she reached her destination and the young airhostess approached in her casuals to accompany her
Marlyn decides she would not leave america, nor disappear underground, she would instead expose herself internationally through commercials , advertisements and newspapers, a tiny logo of her secret agency in one corner attracted attention of their agents who began contacting her, but she waited hawk david"s call,
marlyn is an equivalent to female james bond of american secret service, sent by the senaror to find and bring back a twenty year old californian girl -his closest friend's daughter , gone missing in mexico, rumoured abducted by drugsellers, marlyn carries just a revolver, a dagger and tiny smoke producing explosives, its her presence of mind , courage and intelligence that she succeeds in her missions
some events become sensational pieces of news unfolding into grand stories, influencing the irrational minds of unthinking people who have no time to search the level of truth in such stories , analytical reader enjoys more for he feels an obligation to measure the truth in the facts that go in to make an ordinary event a gripping story, some biased tales are produced to paint certain characters black socially , alert reader sees through all prejudices , hoping this new issue maintains readers natural inquisitiveness, questioning logic, and broad perceptiveness
- You shall remain in memories
- Your life full of love anf joy
- Even if the world is given up
- You shall not be forgotten
- We may talk on any point
- perhaps we may meet again
- That life be spent with you
- That desiring day and night for you
- That I may come along with you
- That you be by my side
- On this life jpurney
a tropical Old World solanaceous plant, Solanum melongena, widely cultivated for its egg-shaped typically dark purple fruit of nightshade vaiety
woman is segregated from birth, she is instilled she has certain duties to perform if she has rights to execute, in the past sixty years woman has changed her profile globally in all aspects and holds important position in skilled professional fields , besides being a mother, home maker, family caretaker , she raises children successfully and is also a pilot, doctor, officer, factory worker, harvestor, worker in the field, she has crossed many milestones of responsibilities yet her journey of success is not yet over , its incomplete, she has to go a long way, introducing rahat wafa a new upcoming urdu writer whose thoughts enrich the minds of her readers and associates equally .
