WHISK | Struggling to Move

I am truly tired of a corporate culture that believes in stringing along vendors for payments. I design for a prominent group in Karachi, and in the six months of my agreement with them, getting payment for my and third-party services has been like pulling teeth.
This is the scenario: I get calls every day pressuring […]

Faisal Qureshi is an anchor on a TV show on Samaa - his show, Ankahi, discusses topics of social reform and civic revolution. ‘Loose Ends Pakistan’ was a show he anchored on another channel, similar to Ankahi, but with larger groups of people at a time.
This evening, he had Samina Peerzada (respected filmmaker in Pakistan) […]

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 […]

‘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 […]