A play by Mohammed Hanif Devised and performed by Nimra Bucha Arts Council, Karachi. 10/11 December. 8pm. Tickets available at Espresso, Liberty Books and at the venue on the night. ________________________________________ what people are saying… “Bucha comes across as a crazy mix of Eva Peron and Imelda Marcos… energetic, vivid, and compelling” (The [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 21, 2009
This morning the world has just witnessed the longest solar eclipse of this century. It was best viewed from a small village in India called Taregna in the eastern state of Bihar, where it was visible for a full earth shaking 3:50 mins. Funnily enough the word Taregna in Hindi means counting stars, how appropriate a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 31, 2008
The language at the bottom is Welsh and reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” This apparently happened as someone emailed a welsh person for translation and the return back was not the solution but an auto message. What did they say about the welsh again? [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 21, 2008
Is Indian food getting too hot to handle? After laughing (for a while) i decided to do a close examination of the pixels in this pic.. but i found zilch, i still decided to dig deeper and look what i found lol!! the sign has just dropped a line from the original to give us what we see above. Plus [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Men are often referred to as “dirty rotten scoundrels” by the general population of desi women everywhere. They are torn apart for lying about the smallest of things, but expected to lie about their mates weight and beauty everyday. They are always blamed for having a one track mind but are castrated the moment, their [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2008
September the 10th 2007 730 Am on the flight back home (A work of pure fiction, any similarity in names is purely circumstantial, written in the linguistic skills of the character depicted) I look at watch, it 745am. The nakur lady forgot to wake me up. I scream for nakur lady other passenger get frightened. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 28, 2008
We are often curious of what exactly entails Pakistan’s image in the international world. Yes yes no matter what our cousins in swat tell us while stroking their beards it does matter people! We really cannot kill people for not having being born in Muslim households and we seriously cannot think of things like [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 25, 2008
Somewhere in January 2008, the day of the Business Plus interview. (A work of pure fiction, any similarity in names is purely circumstantial, written in the linguistic skills of the character depicted) I open my eye and look out of blanket, whole house still, very quiet. I think of Abba Jee lying in his grave, I [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 20, 2007
After doing the necessary business of acquiring goats by the usual means for this Bakra Eid, i came across the “hilarious news” that Al Qaeda would be now conducting an open interview. Yes my friends.. good old Ayman will be answering your questions and has requested all media outlets and journalists to send in the [...]
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Monday, November 30, 2009
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