dhaani

Having a podcast with Moni Mohsin, face to face , was the much needed dose of laughter, humor, intellect, wisdom and experience. Honored and humbled to have her on 'dhaani' - A platform that wants to promote well-being, on the emotional, psychological, physiological, spiritual level -  and  laughter , humor and wit is an intrinsic feature of the human life. We spoke about privacy, laying...

A graduate from the University Of Nebraska in Food science, Yousuf Bashir Qureshi  opened up a cafe' in Nebraska called the 'Silk Cafe'  back in the 90s'. From painting windows to walls to TV sets, YBQ has also designed clothing for celebrities such as Sheryl Crow, Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, and Madonna.  Fabric, colors, weaves always resonated with YBQ , even as a child. Fr...

Our first podcast of 2020 starts with an amazing conversation with Dr. Mahsin Habib. Over a decade ago, Dr. Mahsin Habib and his team identified the need to improve the existing annual physical model. We have travelled extensively to research breakthrough advances. Now, by putting it together and carefully blending all the components into a unique product like nobody else can, we have created the...

Sondoss is a qualified medical nurse, and she is a practising Wet Cupping Therapist. She spent over 10 years in nursing covering a variety of specialities. She discovered Wet Cupping Therapy (Hijama) few years back and got fascinated about it. She learnt and has been trained to carry out WCT by doctors who are experts in the field. Her medical knowledge allows her to understand the science behind...

Delighted to have Rujuta Diwekar on the 40th Episode of dhaani - Winner of the 'Nutrition Award' from Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Rujuta is India's leading sports science and nutrition expert and amongst the world's most followed Nutritionists. She is also a best-selling author and the country's foremost speaker on health and wellness. Her books have sold more than 1 milion copies in 7 la...

A hugely important and pertinent subject, Islam and the Modern World - Kulsoom Omar takes an unusual approach to the modern day challenges that we are facing as individuals, parents & millennials. Kulsoom talks about the therory of liberalism and individualism and how it has slowly seeped into  our cultures more than our faith. The shift from the "We" to the "I" has led to rather disturbi...

Our guest today is Tahera Hasan - a lawyer by profession, she specialises in family law and deals with international adoption cases, custody cases, divorce and khula matters and family settlements. She is experienced in litigation issues connected with children. Ms Hasan has assisted foreign courts when required, with reference to the Pakistan Adoption process by rendering opin...

Our guest today is the award winning actor/director Adeel Husain who  talks about  the learnings and the learner, the optimism and the optimistic, the purpose and the purposeful, the authenticator and the authentication. Candidly, Adeel talks about his learnings and experiences as life flowed out for him. The power and freedom of taking his own decisions , owning up to all the good and m...

Dr. Amar is  a Neurologist who is board certified in neurology, epilepsy and sleep medicine, originally from karachi, he went to albuquerque NM where he completed my Neurology residency and subsequently sub specialized in Epilepsy and Sleep medicine from the Cleveland clinic in Ohio. Dr. Amar has had previous experience directing an epilepsy center and sleep center in Kansas for 3 y...

Jill Satterfield, named “one of the 4 leading yoga and Buddhist teachers in the country ” by the Shambhala Sun Magazine, is the founder of the School for Compassionate Action: Applied Embodied Mindfulness, Contemplative Psychotherapy and Educational Support for Communities in Need and Those Who Serve Them. As a pioneer in the field of mind body awareness, Jill has been teaching internationally, co...

A woman who takes great pride in  her city Lahore, to her sense of wonder and curiosity, to her new and old ventures and her ancestry. Whether it has been appearing in front of the public delivering wit and laughter or dealing with teachers and cirriculums to establish better teaching methods, whether it is English or Punjabi, whether it is silence or narratives - our guest - Navid Shahzad de...

Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla currently serves as Executive Director at The 1947 Partition Archive. Previously, she was an experimental condensed matter physicist and completed her tenure as a post-doctoral researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley, in December 2012. She studied quantum confinement at interfaces that include oxide heterostructu...

Tarik Dervish is an Ayurvedic practitioner, herbalist and yoga teacher trainer. He has been practising and teaching the two subjects in tandem since 2001 and has specialised in raising awareness of ayurveda within the yoga community ever since. He is the current Modules Officer for the British Wheel of Yoga and works with the Helios Foundation, a health charity that supports people living with chr...

A gratifying and soul searching conversation with Dr. Azra Raza - i was fully immersed in her words that were carefully articulated either with scientific terms or lyrical poetry. Her own life balanced with medical catastrophes and poetic  subtleties. We spoke about her curiosity of existence to her memorizing poems since a young age. She explained to us the different stages of a cancer cell, the...

The importance of this world, the 'duniya' in the light of Scriptures - What does it mean to live in this world? What is this realm supposed to perceived and taken as? The expectations that we attach to this world, deeply ingrained belongingness that we associate with it. Kulsoom Omar sheds light on many aspects of this world - but primarily highlights how and why we are supposed to be totally awa...

In her wonderful ways of conversation Kulsoom Omar tells us the importance of remembering Allah, the enrichments of Dua, the ways and means of dua and last but not the least the prime times of making Dua. The single message of our conversation comes alive when Kulsoom explains to us how Dua makes us awake, aware, conscious and mindful of ourselves, our needs and our presence in front of the Almigh...

When a friend suggested Zaheer Saab for 'dhaani', i jumped at the opportunity and it was not difficult to speak to this Legend of Pakistan. Zaheer Alam Kidvai was born in 1940 and witnessed the partition in 1947. In this conversation, Zaheer Saab catalogues many instances from his growing up years, to enrolling in the Merchant Navy, from travels with his parents to his own captaincy across the oce...

A pertinent and valid concern for all. How do we deal with praise and criticism in the light of our scripture, what the Quran  and Hadees recommend and how it has been dealt with by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

The story of Azmat Abbas Alibhai, who had a stroke whilst sitting with her family on the lunch table - she narrates her story of helplessness, despair, hope and reverse engineering her entire biological system - setting a target of 100 days and achieving what most medical practioners could not. Azmat shares with us the concept of bio-hacking, the essential needs of the body, the struggle of taking...

In our concluding episode with Nadia we talk about Independent choices, pain and healing, purpose and constant learning , element of invasiveness and being open to change, energy sharing and empathy. Nadia tells us about her love affair with language and its’ trappings. The gem of the podcast lies right at the end of the podcast when she beautifully, tearfully and eloquently recites a poem in Urdu...

This happened to be my first podcast sitting face to face with my guest who was none other than Nadia Jamil. The conversation was caffeinated, speckled with pauses, lots of tearful blotches, hearty laugher, admissions , permissions, pronunciations and enunciations. This is a 2-part conversation where Nadia candidly talks about Lahore, lessons, trusting and connecting, her lineage and her parents,...

Muzaffar strongly believes in ' When you hear the calling, answer it' , however, to get to this stage of belief and conviction he went through trauma, grief, untangling, unraveling but most of all he went looking for imperfection. Breaking his own mould and perception of perfection he started his journey of courage, hope and curiosity. Muzaffar received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Northw...

 Accepting and arriving, experiencing the not so pleasant experiences, staying in the awareness of being aware, not looking for answers and not even waiting for conclusions - is what Aisha believes.  Aisha is originally from Karachi, Pakistan and has been teaching yoga for 10 years in Pakistan and abroad. Her teaching supports reconnecting to our movement from the inside-out.  She f...

Pakistan's first super model, Atiya Khan, shares her experiences as a model back in the Zia regime of 1980s, a counter narrative, a different stamp on the global modelling landscape leading up to her inward journey. The epiphany, her Sufi teacher, her personal life crumbling but the direction was clear and calling. Atiya also shares with us various insights leading up to her documentary "Qalander...

In this podcast we chat with the Internationally renowned head and neck oncologist, Dr. Scharukh Jalisi. He shares with us his knowledge and experience of dealing with cancer patients, the most pressing causes for head and neck cancer, immunity functions & nutritional requirements of the human body. He also talks about the importance of compassion and empathy not just for the cancer patient bu...