Hello. My name is Matin Durrani and welcome to a new blog that contains selected parts of the memoirs of my father, Professor Saeed Durrani.

He wrote the memoirs beteween 2008 and 2009 and, after I had them typed up, proofread, and printed out, I presented them to him in December 2012 on the occasion of his 50th wedding anniversary.

The memoirs are almost 240,000 words long — over half the length of War and Peace — and over the next few months I intend to add  interesting chunks of the memoirs to this blog.

I won’t include everything that’s in the memoirs, but will post selected highlights that will be of most interest to readers.

So let’s get going…