“When I am creative, I am fearless”
The city of Karachi has always been associated with a vibrant lifestyle and a tradition of good performing arts being available. Although not being the crucible of art such as Lahore, this city has still managed to attract quite a few “creative†people into its fold. On the 9th of November 2009 many of them…
Shanaakth the return
The Shanaakth festival has returned to Karachi today, pleasantly so as the last time was too short to give the viewing public a chance to appreciate the effort put into this event. This time around the organizers have made sure to have proper security as well as keep a location which can be controlled far…
Laidback show, backstage drift
A month or so ago two bloggers mainly me and Awab sat down and talked of the shows we have been on, the purpose of amplification through mainstream media and then it hit us, in my case as it usually does a second later than the world. Why do we need main stream media shows…
The memon chronicles – origins
When one goes through the annals of Indian history, there is often mention of a particular ethnic group of sailor merchants, or memons. Rich in entrepreneurs and aggressive, this community started branching out across the world as far back as the 1800’s when they established firms foot holds in Burma, Srilanka, Far east as well…
Jaag mere talib – e – ilm protest in karachi
Oct 24th Saturday saw us, me and Dr Awab that is standing in front of a pleasant surprise. A small throng of students in front of the press club with banners, megaphones et all denouncing the Taliban with passion. They had a press release they were organized and they came from 4 different colleges and…
Is there no hope?
It gets harder and harder to write everyday. So bizarre is the scenario in Pakistan that the news feed jacked into my mind is full of people exploding at different places, human bombs strike us every day, killing all around them in their suicides. Every single day brings reports of suicide bombings in different cities…
Laidback Show Episode 4 – @skdev tribute
Show notes Cricket fiasco, Pak captain accused of match fixing announces retirement Whats the point of a parliamentary oversight committee on cricket LBS covers Telenor “Easy paisa†launch with 14 different bloggers, reviewed by Faisal Qureshi, Farhan Masood, Arif sahab (telenor rep) Salman mehmood’s sad demise and our feelings for him and his family The…
Opinion flaws
The talk of the town these days is suicide bombings being undertaken by what the media claims are Islamic Zealots and Fanatics. What is perhaps very interesting to note is that the garb of Islamism over the past few decades of our country’s existence has been worn by all sorts of people ranging from fundos…
Khuda ki basti
In my travels around this world, I have come across some cities with really funny names for areas, and even themselves and their towns. For example I have had the unfortunate pleasure of witnessing a town called, Shamrock in Texas because of the single structure in it, the diamond shamrock gas station. However Karachi or…