09
Jul
Author: Guest Post // Category:
Random reviews,
Sands of time
By Rabab Khan “I can hear the waves tell me tales, this is just one of them.” This is Mr. Faisal Kapadia’s preface to a book that kept me up reading until five in the morning. “Sands of Time” is a love story. There is no other way to describe it; a love story so
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03
Jul
Author: Guest Post // Category:
Random reviews,
Sands of time
By Nausheen Manji Faisal Kapadia’s book, The Sands of Time, is a story which captures the essence of the polarized city of Karachi with the tainted morals of its people in an age wrought with political instability and debauchery. In the midst of all this sprouts a love, not based on romance, wealth or affection,
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03
Jul
Author: Guest Post // Category:
Random reviews,
Sands of time
By – Zohaib muzaffar @zohaibmuzaffar The Sand of times, a short story by Faisal Kapadia, a blogger and a social media activist. Although I am not an avid reader of fiction but this short story had all the ingredients to cast an impression on your mind of all the characters of this novella. First astounding
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16
Oct
Author: FK // Category:
Published Articles,
Random reviews
I have to admit, my first experience with an Apple device of any kind was an iPhone and it was a very confusing one. I had fallen for its sleek look and even more so, when a friend told me that the Twitter app, TweetDeck could be used on it, I was clearly very impressed.
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09
Aug
Author: FK // Category:
Current Affairs,
Random reviews
June 8th 2008 saw the beginning of a musical phenomenon in Pakistan, the fusion themed recording studio named Coke studio with Rohail Hyatt at its helm as executive producer took the entire nation by storm and showed us a new unexplored side of our music by fusing folk and different contemporary styles together. The result
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27
Jan
Author: FK // Category:
Geek Speak,
Random reviews
As usual apple has taken the worlds breath away an hour ago by launching the IPAD. A 9.6 inch touch led screen with a onscreen keyboard, 3g and wifi built in and a hell of a lot of apps, 140,000 from the word go designed for it. It comes in 16, 32 and 64 gb
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15
Dec
Author: FK // Category:
Geek Speak,
Random reviews
Everything has a life and in the tech world, the life of a killer app or a killer phone is about as short as an average consumers attention span. That being said the apple Iphone has and still manages to capture the attention of cellphone users and buyers worldwide, mainly due to the fact that
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14
Dec
Author: FK // Category:
Geek Speak,
Karachi,
Random reviews
Dec 13th saw the blogger community of Karachi gather with great gusto for the Hp bloggers meet up. An event scheduled at par with the launch of the new Hp mini series in Pakistan and a discussion forum on how to sell/market the product better. The event was organized by the Emagine group who were
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The city of Karachi has always been associated with a vibrant lifestyle and a tradition of good performing arts being available. Although not being the crucible of art such as Lahore, this city has still managed to attract quite a few “creative” people into its fold. On the 9th of November 2009 many of them
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The Shanaakth festival has returned to Karachi today, pleasantly so as the last time was too short to give the viewing public a chance to appreciate the effort put into this event. This time around the organizers have made sure to have proper security as well as keep a location which can be controlled far
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