Bilal Zuberi
Cake seems to have become a universal dessert, perhaps only rivaled by rice pudding.
Frankly, I tend to prefer ice-cream cakes over cream cakes, but frankly I will take any cake, as long as it is not sugar free.
Over the years I have seen many shapes and sizes of cakes: from miniature cakes the size [...]
Owais Mughal
Eid festival is here. I have collected some Eid related poetry from the web which I will share below in my own hand writing. In these ashaar (poetic couplets) I have tried to capture different moods of Eid festival. Some have an obvious celebratory tone while others are humorous or serious. I will also [...]
Adil Najam
This Friday was Juma-tul-Vida (the last Friday in Ramzan), Diwali celebrations are taking place as I write this, and Eid-ul-Fitr is likely to be on Monday (plus or minus a day or so).
These are auspicious and spiritually significant days. By way of conveying our choicest greetings to our readers on these occasions, we wanted [...]
Adil Najam
We have not had an ATP Photo-Quiz for quite a while. So, here it is. Our previous Photo-Quizes were fairly well-receievd (here, here, here, here, here and here), and it is only appropriate if this one is about a building, given all the discussions we have been having on architecture (here, here, here, here [...]
Adil Najam
No dearth of interesting news coming from the world of cricket:
Pakistan ‘wins’ on the ball-tampering controversy, but debates linger;
Resignations, counter-resignations, re-resignations on the Pakistan side;
Two key Pakistan cricketers sent back home from the ICC Champions Trophy for taking performance enhancing drugs;
A dramatic victory against Sri Lanka by an emotionally drained and materially depleted Pakistan [...]
Bilal Zuberi
If you are like me, you might be quite used to standing in long lines outside the Bank and the post-office to pay phone and electricity/gas bills every month. Now that I am no longer at home for most of the year, my brothers have to deal with the hassle. I have noticed over [...]
