WHISK | Struggling to Move

Web Development companies in Pakistan are like grains of sand on the beach – innumerable. As a way to make a quick buck, to start up a company without overhead, and to succeed at it, web development tops the charts of most desirable career. Not to be confused with Web Design, web developers are the […]

And now for something positive out of Pakistan… There are people in this country who are working to improve the status quo, in all sectors, from all walks of life. The organizers of the KaraFilm Festival (Karachi International Film Festival) fall in this category. Having designed for them for the past two years, I have […]

I went to see my mother’s aunt over Eid – a frail, tiny woman, over a hundred years old by my estimate, but spritely and alert in her old age – and we inevitably talked about days gone by, and her memories of her brother (my grandfather). Her son, sitting next to her, was counting […]

William Dalrymple has posted an article in Outlook India, which is a must-read, especially if we are to avoid re-writing history as our media has managed to do in the last few years…
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“The Queen has died. Long live the King!” In essence, these were the chants coming from the back of the room where their Lordships held court to their minions. The boy King sat in the middle, flanked by father and patron. He read from a text to the crowd, a monotonous, jilted speech that suddenly […]

Waiting for the Barbarians
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are to arrive today.
Why such inaction in the Senate?
Why do the Senators sit and pass no laws?
Because the barbarians are to arrive today.
What laws can the Senators pass any more?
When the barbarians come they will make the laws.
Why did our emperor wake […]

Waiting for the Barbarians
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are to arrive today.
Why such inaction in the Senate?
Why do the Senators sit and pass no laws?
Because the barbarians are to arrive today.
What laws can the Senators pass any more?
When the barbarians come they will make the laws.
Why did our emperor wake […]

Amidst the relentless coverage of the Lal Masjid Operation, our news channels and papers have tried very hard to keep abreast of the situation and to present the blow-by-blow news, as it happens, when it happens. Along with the situation on the ground, a few channels have presented the history of the Lal Masjid showdown, […]

Neck and neck with the lop-sided blogging community is the inexperienced, sensation-driven tabloid style media that has swept the nation. We seem to think that a free press means the right to air anyone’s opinion, regardless of the consequences.
On one hand, you have conservative newspapers that are so late with the news, they may as […]

‘What matters is what you do in this world, not how you come into it.’
Eliza was found in a soap crate, wrapped in a man’s sweater and placed carefully on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company. Jeremy Sommers represented his firm in Chile, and lived with his sister, Rose, as colonial masters […]