Author: Jawwad

Here is a series of posts I did in early October. Before I post an update I thought it would be useful to set the context again. Here is where things were about four months ago…   Nishtar Road School Project – One 1983…I went to a Parsi school. There it is out there and…

A lot of friends and readers have asked where they can get a full copy of the Blue Screen. You can download the complete book in PDF format by clicking here. Enjoy reading. And if you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it, drop me a line. And if you would…

ZAK as promised ran a great show in Karachi. We started off with the Martin Luther king speech and wondered what it would look like if he had used power point. And ended with his DATA warehousing in Lahore story in the early 80’s… I was also able to sneak in a number of solid…

How can you not be bullish on a country where children can still make beautiful music like this: The event, CAS senior section sports day. The highlight: cheerleading display by class 3 and 4 students. You had to be there and see them dancing away with the wind. Here are a few snaps of what…

And here for old DesiStartup posts

Accidently stumbled on the blogger edition of DesiBackToDesh that I ditched in January 2007 after bloggers ill fated attempt to upgrade my blog. Old posts, old memories, with some of the original desi posts, click here

Unconfirmed reports indicate that the central bank picked up about 11 billion rupees in the Pakistan investment bond (PIB) auction this evening. Cutoffs for the 5 offered tenors were as under: Tenor Cutoff yields 3 years 10.05% 5 years 10.25% 10 years 10.85% 15 years 11.75% 20 years 11.95% 30 years 12.11% The benchmark 30…

One of the greatest regret of my life is not going to a school where Zaheer Kidvai taught. All of that should change on Saturday when he runs his infamous (better to be infamous, than famous) workshop on presentation skills at the Karachi Marriot. If you have anything to do with selling, presenting or convincing…

Here are directions to the PixSense Office, courtesy Adnan. See you there at 6:00 pm sharp. We will inshahallah start on time.