You only live once, make the most of it!
I am often asked by various family and friends as to “what” i moved back to Pakistan for, usually in questions like “Why the hell are you still here” and “What is wrong with you” so in order to quell this tide i have decided to express my philosophy of “leave the west to the…
Three years ago there were only two countries in our region without an academy for the promotion of performing arts, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In 2005 the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) happily put an end to this misery in our neck of the woods at least. To put it simply, NAPA represents an…
The only thing certain about today’s world is that it is in an ever changing flux of events and anything can happen at any moment. To put it simply it is totally uncertain. We are born in this world in the most excruciating of events, there are bright lights, hands pull you out and you…
To begin with let me introduce myself, I am by the description of many “younger people†a fuddy duddy middle aged conservative. Yes I know we are a dying breed today, but then someone must uphold the flag of silliness no? For a while now I have been noticing a major shift in the opinions…
For the last year and a half, a lot of hue and cry has been made about how the Pakistani cinema is dying and what can be done to revive it. Growing up here in Karachi I have always wondered how our music scene just keeps getting better and better while our cinema just worse…
A community portal is basically defined in various dictionaries and geek speak as a place where people of common interest gather virtually, to engage in activities and networking. In the recent years we have seen a huge rise in community portals in our country. So here is my take on the three major types in…
Perception is widely defined as the visual representation of an object, entity or idea. What this definition does not include however, is the fact that perceptions often change when subjected to different circumstantial input or stimuli. I still remember quite clearly the perception of the general public in the U.S towards my country Pakistan while…
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…
“I stepped out on the curb from my office building, after exhausting myself with trying to start my car, seems its on the conk again. I looked up and immediately started to sweat as i saw the blazing 43C bone burning sunshine beat down on me. Gingerly i made my way through the midway traffic…
It is said that humans descended from apes, or so the Darwinian Theory goes. Well the humans in this corner of South East Asia seem to have retained some of their ancestor’s traits quite well. That is we love to ape, the west specifically. Perhaps it is some colonial chip we still carry on our…