Archives
August 2014
The End of Beggar at Ghazi Chowk 20 Aug
April 2014
Why Coke Studio Matters 6 Apr
August 2013
How Do Good Ideas Spread? 10 Aug
July 2013
An unravelling state 2 Jul
My friend Alice explaining how I feel: 1 Jul
June 2013
Reasonable Circumstance 19 Jun
An Imagined Community 18 Jun
April 2013
Anthropomorphized mediocrity 4 Apr
March 2013
Poorer by concentration 6 Mar
Letter to my freshman self 5 Mar
February 2013
Dawn Reporting on Gandhi’s Death 26 Feb
November 2012
Pigeonholed 30 Nov
Why Twitter’s ‘People You May Know’ is Broken 25 Nov
The PPP’s Trouble with Free Information 25 Nov
Google Pakistan Home Page Hacked 24 Nov
National Assembly adopts MQM’s resolution to deweaponise Pakistan 21 Nov
Afridi Skipping the Big Bash 19 Nov
Marooned Passports 18 Nov
September 2012
Taking charge of email 25 Sep
May 2012
In defense of common sense 9 May
April 2012
Getting in from abroad 26 Apr
On social entrepreneurship 12 Apr
March 2012
The curse of liberal arts 29 Mar
The Pequod is still too damn high 1 Mar
February 2012
Culture and Athletics 8 Feb
December 2011
Please Go Away 16 Dec
November 2011
Rethinking Our Ideals: Multiculturalism 22 Nov
Review: Pakistan – Folk and Pop Instrumentals 6 Nov
Coke Studio’s Possible Timelessness. 5 Nov
September 2011
10 years on from 9/11 15 Sep
March 2011
War Minus The Shooting. 29 Mar
A New Generation of Rock. 18 Mar
Starbucks and Foreign Policy. 17 Mar
February 2011
Junoon Manifests in ADP. 9 Feb
A Powerful Entrance – Bumbu Sauce. 8 Feb
December 2010
Tony Blair, Imran Khan, Sunglasses & That Guitar Sound. 24 Dec
November 2010
New Directions for Noori. 30 Nov
Garmi On – Urban Life & the Underground. 9 Nov
Picking up the Sagar Veena. 4 Nov
October 2010
Rehman Malik, Please don’t make Pakistan another xenophobic society. 10 Oct
September 2010
Searches That Lead Here. 30 Sep
A Take on Pakistani Patriotism Part 1: The Islamic State. 16 Sep
I Missed Something. 12 Sep
An Update. 12 Sep
August 2010
A Place Where Ends Meet (From the News on Sunday) 19 Aug
Meeting Ali Hamza. 18 Aug
Plea. 14 Aug
Arieb Azhar. The Interview. 11 Aug
More Stories from the Land of the Pure. 10 Aug
Koolmuzone: An Online Success Story – The Interview. 3 Aug
When Good News Eludes This Land. 3 Aug
Me and a Rebel in Nepal. 2 Aug
July 2010
Thank You, My Inspirations. 19 Jul
My Thoughts On Pakistani Blogging. 18 Jul
The Tayyara Bus – A Photo. 13 Jul
You Know You’re in Karachi When… 13 Jul
Noori’s Third Album (Rahi Yahan Kay). Preview/Guesstimates. 11 Jul
Match Fixing and the Inshallah Complex. 9 Jul
So My Car is Suspect? 8 Jul
Lahore’s Best Chicken Tikka. 8 Jul
Oh Yes. 7 Jul
The End – On Cricket, Passion, Religion and Tragedy. 6 Jul
What I’m Working On. 5 Jul
Lahore is Struck. Again. 2 Jul
A Song I’m Hooked To. 1 Jul
June 2010
Why Don’t They Suspect Me Anymore? 30 Jun
Stories From a Night Out. 26 Jun
A Citizen’s Account of The Raiwind Road Protest. 24 Jun
The Problem With the Elite. 20 Jun
Hopelessness is Rampant. 20 Jun
A Message to the Pakistani Media. 20 Jun
Music and Gurus of Peace. 17 Jun
The Website is Back to Normal. 17 Jun
More on Zeb and Haniya. 17 Jun
The Geek in Me Lives. 17 Jun
A Bone to Pick with the Times – On Chitral. 16 Jun
Some Thought in the Chaos. 16 Jun
Before These Crowded Streets. 11 Jun
You May Not Come Back Inside. 7 Jun
10’000 Civilians & 2’500 Soldiers. What We’ve Paid/Lost. 7 Jun
People Always Think What I’m Thinking, But Better. 6 Jun
Rock the Airwaves in Pakistan. 6 Jun
God, Faith, Courage, Love – First Stop: Allama Iqbal International Airport. 5 Jun
May 2010
The Down Low on the Facebook Ban – Updated. 20 May
What to Make of the Pakistani Media. 18 May
Junoon – What You Need to Know. 14 May
Why a Pakistani Identity is Irrelevant. 14 May
Burqas and Conservatives – Let it Be. 14 May
Bulleh Shah: Ik Nukde Wich Gal Mukdi Ae. 10 May
‘Love, Life, Junoon’ – To Sufi Night, with Love. 5 May
April 2010
87 Words on History: A Rant. 29 Apr
Some Blogs Thou Findeth. 28 Apr
Jhoom Lay, But Do It Outside the Country. 28 Apr
Gems in Dawn. A Reading List. 22 Apr
What a Shame. 21 Apr
Peaceful Indians. 21 Apr
The Making of a Suicide Bomber. Eye Opening. 21 Apr
And The Sufis Take The Stage. 21 Apr
How Dare a Dictator Make Us Have Elections. 16 Apr
Too Many Fashion Weeks. 14 Apr
Punjabi Punk & More. 14 Apr
Just a Note About This Blog. 13 Apr
TMI. 12 Apr
India-a-aa, India! 12 Apr
Who are we? The Pakistani Identity Crisis. 12 Apr
You’ll Need a Security Guard. 11 Apr
The Bare Skin Rebellion. 11 Apr
Am I a Fan or am I a Fan? 10 Apr
Indian Women Fall For Pakistani Men. 9 Apr
A Secular Pakistan. Don’t Laugh. 9 Apr
Desi Standard Time. 9 Apr
The School Children Take The Fight. 9 Apr
The Year of the Drone. 8 Apr
A Pakistani Socialist? Save us. 8 Apr
Make Fun of Your Politicians. 7 Apr
More War at Fashion Shows. 7 Apr
The World Doesn’t Care About Democracy. 5 Apr
More Subliminal Peace Messages. 5 Apr
Everybody Loves Women. 4 Apr
What’s in a Name? 3 Apr
The Creative Rebellion to Extremism. 3 Apr
Why Taboo is Good. 1 Apr
Dilemma: Two Bad Options. Good Luck. 1 Apr
Ghee & Sugar in Your Mouth. 1 Apr
March 2010
Ask for Tourists, not Terrorists. 31 Mar
Why the Drones Annoy this Pakistani Novelist. 30 Mar