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MUHAMMED NOUSHAD meets a Pakistani mystic refugee at a mosque in Kotabharu, Malaysia. From very far, you could make it out that he is an aged Pathan. Clad in a green T-shirt and lunki, he wore a white skull cap. His smile spoke of the painful burdens his soul has managed to traverse through, and absorb, in a graceful way,
» Read moreYoung explorer Ann Kathrin travels to different countries from Germany; she does odd jobs, meets people and learns about their lives. By MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. Each place offers something interesting to learn, believes Ann Kathrin Keppke, a solo traveler. That may be the reason she doesn’t plan her trips. From Wayanad, while heading to Calicut, she took a wrong bus and
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MUHAMMED NOUSHAD drinks the ginger-lemon-honey tea prepared by Tibetan monks at Sera Jey Monastic University in Bylakuppe and reflects on the importance of The Way of Tea in Buddhist paths. The Yiga Choeling Cultural Center of Sera Jey Buddhist monastery has a small tea shop in front of it, a round-shaped hut that opens only in the evening. In the
» Read moreLanguage fails when you are on a mountain; silence is the best companion. There, no conversation is complete unless it is through tears. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD shares the mystical insights of trekking in an unknown hilly area called Parunthumala in the Western Ghats. Photographs by AMEEN AHSAN. The fact that Parunthumala has not yet been marked on the internet, by trekkers and travelers,
» Read moreConveying somber mood over his non-participation this year, MUHAMMED NOUSHAD remembers the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair and the encounters he had with the people and books during the fair, as the event this year has ended last week. In a November midnight in 2011, Ali Ahsan and I landed in Sharjah Airport, to attend the 30th Sharjah International Book
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