You only live once, make the most of it!
My brothers and sisters, who live in this great country and around the world. Whose blood flows green rather than red and who love this place like no one else can, rejoice!!! as from Dec 15th we are now totally and absolutely free. The emergency has been lifted and all is now well. We can…
In the recent past a new breed of power player has emerged on the word stage of geopolitics. Where the “one’s” who mattered first wore saville row suits, these now come clad in Jubbah and the famous head dress and sunglasses. I speak of the Sheikh’s who in various guises and forms are now claiming…
After dealing with and using computers for over 12 years with a geeky degree in Management Information Systems i have come to realize that there are only two forces in the computer galaxy. The good side that is the various versions of window driven machines & the dark side with its sleek lines and alternative…
As the political debate heats up, it’s getting colder here. Cold in Karachi would be defined by the desire to wear a sweater for an hour in the mornings. Yes the early mornings when parents like me wake up to drive their wards to school at the ungodly hour of 7am or so. I wonder…
 Kolkata has in its splendid history a number of ruins to gaze at for the traveller to these parts. Perhaps the most famous one among these is the Victoria memorial, one of the most beautifull memorials present in India. It took 20 years to construct and was done so in the memory of the…
Power…. something which the elite crave for and the masses know nothing about. They say nothing corrupts like power and our politicians are perhaps the best example of this sort of corruption. They say it was power that was Alexanders undoing in the end. As mere military conquest was not enough for this great general,…
On a crisp November morning today, our great leader in his sagacious ways passed a wooden stick on to his next of command, the next great leader. Obviously this was a ceremony of true military pomp and honor with the prime minister in PCO attending along with various high level dignitaries and bureaucracy. It was…
As i write this, the Pak Vs India ODI series is now over, India having won it by a 3-2 margin. It was not a one sided affair by far, with most of the matches going down to the wire, as they often do when both these teams play. Team Pakistan under their new captain…
The English language is according to facts and figures the 2nd most universally spoken language. It is spoken by one out of five people in this planet. It is the language of technology and the information age as well with more than 75% of all web pages on the internet being in English. Various countries…
Since November the 3rd we here in Pakistan have been going through various phases of shock and horror at what the seemingly misled government can do to its own popularity within the space of a month. We have witnessed a stock market meltdown, the closure of all news channels and the brutalization of the judiciary…