A burning question: Can science explain the mystery of the fire walk?…All over the world, from Japan to Sri Lanka, Spain to Bora Bora, fire walking has been a high point of intense religious ritual. The mystery has always been how the human bodies can with-stand the high temperature involved, how fire walkers emerge unscathed from the burning pit with no apparent sensation of pain.

Tsunami effects and results.

The Sri Lankan Civil War is one of the longest running armed conflicts in Asia. Since 1983 the South Asian Island has been faced with a constant rendition of violence between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) whose members originate from the largest ethnic minority, the Tamils and the Sinhalese Community, which forms the majority of the population.

A list of things that were invented in India.

While the Sri Lankan government rejoices over its victory over the Tamil Tigers, I am not at ease. For, to my eyes, the Sri Lankan soldiers’ victory is just a military victory. The government in particular and the Sri Lankan people in general are yet to prove that they have also triumphed over the socio-economic and political reasons for the formation of and for the peoples’ support for the Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lanka was amiably supported in some secret ways by China in return for a deal, in their fight against Tamil Tigers.

An opinionated essay on suicide bombings and whether or not they are justified.

This article is dedicated to my late brother-in-law Faiz Yoosoof, my beloved sister Zehana, Son Iqbal, and daughter Ilma. May the Almighty Allah shower his choicest blessings to your family for the rest of this lifetime.

The excellent work that a charity organisation has done to help tsunami victims overcome the after effects of the tsunami.