7th Kara film festival

When I got a chance to visit the Kara Film festival earlier this week, I was quite chuffed. Who wouldn’t be ??? Being the Karachi nut I am , a film festival with international recognition and 230 flicks being staged in my own city of residence hit all the right notes in me. Until i…

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Ranjha & juliet

The KB thespians have been in the past responsible for bringing us plays like  “Waiting for Godot” & “The importance of being Ernest”.  They are a Pakistani theater troupe and followers of Stanislavski’s school of method acting. They have now come up with a romantic comedy to lighten our hearts on Valentines day called “Ranjha…

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Save T2F!!

By Batool Habib T2F (The Second Floor Cafe) is being forced out of the building it is currently situated in – and it has left 90% of Karachi in dire dismay at the thought of losing a place as great as this – the cultural , intellectual hub of Karachi, The Second Floor has really…

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Who is targetting who?

The reason for putting up this video is to show the citizens of this city the other side of the story as well. It is not just all black and white. I did not gather these clips, they were shown on all tv channels but sadly as always we only see one side of the…

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Indian jets violate pakistan airspace

Midnight here in Karachi 14.12.08 I am jarred awake by the beeping on my cellphone, another sms I think to myself as i look at the screen, but the next second I am reaching frantically for the remote instead of switching the phone off and going back to bed. The message reads “are we under…

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Eid ul adha 2008 (slaughter in gloom)

Tomorrow is Eid Ul Adha here in Pakistan or at least those parts of it that still follow the writ of our government. After going about the business of procuring the animals for the ritual slaughter we engage in every year at exorbitant prices I might add, I decided to take the clan out for…

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KBM 08

Its not often that you attend an event where you get to meet people you actually want to meet. The Bloggers meet up 08 held on Dec 6th 08 was just such a place, organized very well by Badar Kushnood of google and Salaina Haroon of CIO it turned out to be a rip roaring…

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Stop blaming yourself!!!

In recent days I have been witness to a lot of hand wrangling in Karachi wherever I go whenever the current hottest topic of conversation the “Mumbai attack” comes up. Granted as citizens of this world it is our duty to stand with the Mumbaikars and the rest of India against these ghastly murderers, but…

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Darkness within

It’s really difficult to describe the sensation of load shedding to someone who is unfamiliar with their power getting interrupted. The incident in question happened after the last “major bombing” incident, you may insert whichever one is the flavor of the week in Pakistan; a friend of mine called to check up on my well…

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