I am an eclectic reader, and I pick and choose. I once used to incessantly consume texts and underlining was my yoga, but have now become hesitant and choose more carefully. I abhor compartmentalization in all its forms but understand that categorization is inevitable. At the same time, I resist compartmentalization, and if you find me subtly orientating with one ideology or another, I would respect your right but you must know that I am a perennial shape-shifter when it comes to the world of ideas and thoughts.

I have wide-ranging technical interests from machine learning and signal processing to language and logic. I am an undergraduate in electrical engineering and have graduate degrees in computer engineering. My doctoral research, which now seems a distant event in the past, was focussed on the analysis of cariophysiological signals, however, I have also done active research in computer vision and IoT security. I am currently working in the area of speech and natural language processing. You can see my technical publications here. I am associated with the Center of Data and Text Engineering and Mining, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad.

I am also a literary hobbyist with multidisciplinary interests in philosophy, science, and literature. I have been associated as a translator with the Tempelton Foundation grant titled From Conflict-Independence to Dialogue-Integration: Discovering and Designing Resources for Rethinking the Religion-Science Relationship in Pakistan. As part of the project, my translated essays on the philosophy of science of Charles Sanders Peirce won the Urdu Science Award 2017. I have also translated various novels, short stories, and non-fiction anthologies. A collection of my poetry Shahrah-e-Shawq was published in 2015 (you can access it here). My book Dubidha won the prestigious KLF 2022 best book award in the category of Urdu prose (you can buy it here). An incomplete list of my literary works is shared below.

Original Works

Dubidha, Sang-e-Meel, Lahore, 2022 (Non-Fiction) - can be ordered here.

Shahrah-e-Shauq, Book Home, 2015. (Urdu Poetry) - available online at Rekhta.

Essays and Polemics, Monthly Al-Shariah, (can be accessed here).

Essays, Humsub Blogzine, (can be accessed here).

Essays, Naya Daur, (can be accessed here).

Reading Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, Mayar, 2014 (can be accessed here).

Translation (Anthologies)

Nayee Dunyaon Kee Talash, Urdu Science Board, 2017. (An Anthology of Revisionist Trends in Philosophy of Science and Social Sciences and five seminal essays of Charles Sanders Peirce) - The preface can be read here.

Insaan Kon Hai?, Isharaat Publications, 2015. (Joshua Heschel's 'Who is Man' and selected essays)

Translation (Longer Works)

The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus, Jaeza.pk, 2021. (Intro, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Euminides)

Chand Ko Gul Karen To Hum Janen, Book Corner, Jhelum, 2021. (Osama Siddique, Snuffing Out the Moon)

Balzac Aur Pari Paykar Cheeni Darzan, City Press, Aaj Ki Kitabein, Karachi 2016. (Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)

Bakr Beeti, City Press, Aaj Kee Kitabein, Karachi 2017. (Binyamin, Goat Days)

Hayat-e-Moosh, City Press, Aaj Kee Kitabein, Karachi 2018. (Andrzej Zaniewski, Rat)

Translations (Short Stories)

Badshah Sunta Hey, City Press, Aaj Ki Kitabein (Italo Calvino, A King Listens)

Banson Key Jhund Mein, (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Into the Bamboo Grove), 2016 (read here)

Aik Mazhaka Khez Aadmi Ka Khwab, (Dostoyevsky, Dream of a Ridiculous Man), 2015 (old version)

Stories of Jorge Luis Borges, 2014, - new recently revised versions being published here.

Samr-e-Mahboob, (Han Kang, The Fruit of My Woman), Duniyazad, Karachi, 2016. (here)

Qissa Aik Raat Ka, (Daniel Woodrell, Night Stand), 2016, (here).

Subah Kee Surkhi, (Josef Magnus Wehner, The Red Light of Morning), 2016, (here).

Translations (Non-Fiction)

Mutala-e-Idiot Kyon Aur Kesay, (Anne Hruska, How and Why to Read Idiot), 2015, (here).

Agar Yeh Insaan Hey, (Selections from Primo Levi, If This is Man), 2015

[my original blog for the last 20 years is archived now]