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FK - who has written 485 posts on Deadpan Thoughts.
I am a writer/blogger/entrepreneur resident in Karachi, Pakistan. I blog in this space and contribute regularly in the print media as a feature writer for The Friday Times, as well as the Dawn blog.
That’s just not cricket
ALSO PUBLISHED ON THE DAWN BLOG Sub-continental cricket is of a different form than the game played internationally. The rules are the same, yes, but only in this part of the world is cricket treated as a way of life, rather than as a sport. Only here is a cricketer deemed so infallible that fans will [...]
Continue reading...When we were champions
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
ALSO PUBLISHED ON THE DAWN BLOG “Hassan Sardar to Kalimullah, Kalimullah takes the ball into the D, he dodges one, two players, he shoots. Kalimullah has just scored a goal for Pakistan in the Olympics” This is an example of some of the voices that are burnt into my memory. Voices from a time when there [...]
Continue reading...Podcasting into the future
Monday, March 8, 2010
Social media is the hottest hippest thing in Pakistan these days, where every politician wants to twitter with their masses of voters and every social or anti social man, woman or otherwise has to have a face book account. It is so cool these days that every self respecting journalist is lining up to have [...]
Continue reading...Slow burn solution
Monday, March 1, 2010
2009 according to meteorologists all over the world was the hottest year since 1850. In fact the last decade was the hottest in the entire history of our world’s existence. This is not all, from now on wards to 2025 has been deemed the critical make or break moment as far as [...]
Continue reading...A strange silence
Sunday, February 21, 2010
In 2006 as the story goes the CJP saw it fit to take up the missing persons case in his august court. his was a brave and noble endeavor as in the last 4 years more than a 1000 people have gone missing from Pakistan, one of them was Aafia siddiqui..just one person, who’s tale [...]
Continue reading...Discussion on unity, with Farah Pandith
Thursday, February 11, 2010
On Tuesday me and some other members of the new media were invited to a discussion with Ms. Farah A. Pandith, U.S. Special Representative to Muslim Communities at Kurshid Mahal in Avari towers here in Karachi. Karachi traffic being what it is due to V.I.P movement, the event started off at around 9 pm whereas me, [...]
Continue reading...A look in the mirror
Thursday, February 4, 2010
I have been one of the biggest critics of main stream media in Pakistan for a while now. It is because I feel that journalistic integrity in broadcasting in Pakistan is becoming extinct. Anchors are dong their best to drag anything and everything through the muck of sensationalism to achieve higher ratings. Obviously there are [...]
Continue reading...How not to be hacked
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Being the Uber geek that I am I never imagined this could happen to me, but it did and although I am still fuming at the person who did it, whom I will get sooner or later in this life I thought it was necessary that I tell you all my experience so that you [...]
Continue reading...Shame on Cricket & Pakistan
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Cricket these days is not how it used to be. This is the understatement of the year as cricket is actually transformed ala 20 20 into something many of us cannot even understand anymore. Oh sure its hit and giggle and seemed fun in the start but the whole ambiance seems to be eroding the [...]
Continue reading...Geek does nature
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Imagine your normal day. You wake up, reach for your phone and it begins, the data stream, you plug in and suddenly you are surrounded by your friends and co workers virtually that is. Your work and fun intermingles as you plant crops in farmville and negotiate deals in the other window. Its all digital, [...]
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
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