Hey James!

Yeah, you guessed it. It's a Picasa mosaic that points to a page which displays a 1-column gallery (Medium image size is set at 800px). I hope this helps!

Thanks,

Faraz

Dude... you're picking me up on the 27th. Heathrow, Emirates!

Haha... yeah. It's been made clear to me over the past few hours that my friends remember that incident a bit better than me!

'Entrepreneurship vs. a desk job' is a super idea for a lunchtime conversation. We must have it soon?! I think this might be a good lead-in- http://www.nasonart.com/personal/lifelessons/foun... !! :-)

Miss Iss!!!!

So cool to have you back!! I'm delighted that you liked these, thank you... !!
I like the new group format too. Eventually, I hope my pictures can tell stories that spread...I have a bunch of sets that I'd like to share over the next few days, shall alert you when that happens.

I might be shooting in Afghanistan for Thomson Reuters soon, super excited about that!!

Canada must be freezing right now?!!

Yeah?!
So we'll talk about it on our way there. We're flying out Saturday morning at 8!

Hey! Sorry, didn't get your SMS, could you mail me your contact number and I'll call you back?!
Thanks

Hey!

Thanks for the frenzied phone call, I hope I was able to allay your fears.
I'll put it on record- 'the background track is 'Elevation' by U2 and all rights for this song belong to UMG.

Right Kate? I hope we're good now!! :)

I agree, Miss Iss is an absolutely unbeatable nom-de-plume. Sometimes, I do wish I posted anonymously, spent too many lunches explaining my blog to the board! :-)

Tariq Ramadan's arguments make a lot of sense, I should get his new book soon. Thanks for the recommendation! :-)

And yeah, I was pleased to find your thoughts here. It's comforting to know I have real people reading this blog, I had feared 'bots' on the traffic report!!
Curiously, the commenting engine is powered by 'IntenseDebate', Automattic would be proud they called it that!

'Miss Iss'!!!! :)

Yeah, like I said, I'm sold on the spirit of the plan, I was wondering about the scalability question and hence, that post.

There can be no argument against the power of spiritual persuasion.

The problem is that our spiritual leadership does not understand it's need to understand issues outside the spiritual sphere. At last count(ref: my mental Gallup Poll?), we didn't have the numbers with the 'intelligence and the abilities to articulate' complex social imperatives. And that, is the root of the problem. It's also the reason why we must seriously consider the problems plaguing the infrastructure that trains our spiritual (/faith) leaders.

I've visited a bunch of seminaries in India and I've always come away disturbed at many levels- their infrastructure is broken, their ancillary(non-doctrinal) curriculum is antiquated and they don't have the resources to improve either.

This is surely a worthwhile cause for Secretary Moon and the general society to take up: let's help our religious schools(which also double-up as primary education mechanisms) get better and we would then have a savvy workforce that understands it's wider environmental compulsions.

Our imams can then work their charm and use their license to persuade. And that would be very cool!

Note to self: Never write a post when you're flying a red-eye. That 'quick-edit for the blog' never works! :)

What can I say to that!! :)