LifeBahn Blogs

1.Making Sense of Life 

  And more often than not eventually I managed to make sense of it. However, no sooner have I made sense of one thing, a new twist appears or something else doesn't make sense…and so it goes… Of course some days it all makes sense and some days  nothing makes sense. The list of things that I have been trying to make sense of over the past...

2. Making sense of the world we live in.

And as these things began to make sense , they also became lessons for better living, which is what I wish to share with     Some of these things which had to make sense for me before it all made sense are:   Why do some people have more stuff (money) than others   ?….. Why do we do what we do ?….. ...

3.Making Sense of Humanity

3.1 Why do we do what we do….…. Why does Dad have to go away every day and I have to go to school, what does Mom do , etc. ….….  And while intuitively I understood that all of these things have to be done in order for us to live, which means having food, water, shelter etc… And that in order to [provide these necessities, Dad had to work and...

1.1 Is HE in or out?

It all started around 1960, just after the revolution of 1958 in Pakistan when Gen Ayyub Khan declared Marshall law and took over the country…. I remember, I was about 8 or 9,  laying on my char payee (cot in Urdu) in my veranda in my first house(home at 39E Jahangir Road West, Karachi, Pakistan), looking at the sky with millions of stars, admiring...

1.2 Making sense of In or Out

With reference to ‘In or Out’., it was in 2022, when I was teaching an IB HL math class and talking about, Geometric series and the notion of infinity, when it suddenly hit me… I paused, looked at the class, which had fallen silent at this unusual occurrence, of me silent, gathering my thoughts ... .until; I finally spoke…  You know guys, I have...

3.2 Why do the 1% control over 50% of the global resources?

It will be a while before we get to this question, what was an even more immediate question,   Yet I could see that for many who had achieved financial prosperity, it wasn't enough. There were other things which were important.  So life wasn't just the pursuit of financial prosperity. So what was it? It appears over time that for many people their health was...