Globally Rational

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I just posted a new entry in the “Essays” section, entitled The Plight of the Expatriated Sports Fanatic. It is a chronicle of moving to a country where my cricket obsession, which had previously been my only tool for social contact, was unheard of. As I was forced to semi-successfully take up new sports like basketball, I eventually realized that I could bridge the two cultures with the game of chess while paying homage to both nations. Little to my knowledge at the time, the different games acted as symbols of my Pakistani heritage (cricket), my American future (basketball), and my global identity (chess).

I wrote the essay about three years ago, but I touched it up a little bit to make sure that everything is consistent for today’s time.

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