1991 is the year when the world changed for me forever. At the beginning of my fourth term at FAST ICS my father went out and bought me an Intel 286 DTK computer. He borrowed 30,000 rupees from two elders in my extended family. For us as a household, it was an unthinkable amount and…
Category: Desi Back to Desh
home through desi return eyes
You were saying, a rejoinder four…
Look here and here. There is more behind the G-20 and Nato protests than these selective images show case. The violence is hard to ignore but it overshadows the cause, the concept, the organization or the impact. So if I was the only source of information you had, my commentary the basis of your opinion,…
Myths about Pakistan or an infrastructure rejoinder, three
Jehan did a post on This too is Pakistan, in October 2008. At the peak of distrust, despair and negativity coming out by the buckets in that month, she went out to highlight some of the many things that are right with this country. I didn’t get round to doing a follow up but Post…
Stop press
2nd Edition of the blue screen of death has now gone to the press. Expected release date, somewhere in the next 8 weeks. You are looking at the million dollars, 4 color, fully automated Mitsubishi printing work horse in Singapore that will be responsible for bringing this fine piece of scholarship out in the form…
I want to be a chapatti when I grow up, or, a middle class rejoinder, two
I really don’t know the deal with why Lahoris write so much better than us Karachiites. (No offense intended) Witness Sepoy’s rant at Chapati Mystery on an NYT Oped by Patrick French on Pakistan. I wish I can write like this when I grow up…
Myths about Pakistan – a rant, or a middle class rejoinder – one
The inspiration for this post came from the responses to tech Lahore Post Modern Pakistan post. Not the post but the cynics who turned out in large numbers to remind us how bad things are today and how much worse they have become over the years. I am obviously not as educated or as well…
The essence of a business plan competition
Professor Grandhi at SP Jain is a new friend who had been after me to share my thoughts about what business plan competition at a business school should look like. The post goes out to him and all other promoters of entrepreneurship who believe that we should catch this generation young. Preferably corrupt their minds…
Teaching the dreamer course again
In Dubai, teaching the entrepreneurship course from today till the end of the month. More later
Rupee dollar parity – two
As per Ansar’s request, here is a breakdown of our imports for December 2008. All figures in ‘000 US$. Food Groups 236,176 Machinery 486,280 Mobile phones 10,149 Transport 107,040 Petrochemicals 403,592 Textiles 132,305 All others 761,520 …
The Rupee dollar outlook
The slow down and the correction has finally hit the trade numbers. The bad news is that compared to the previous month, December exports fell by about 14% in dollar terms. The good news is that imports fell by 22% and the balance of trade is now down to only 800 million US dollars. Foreign…