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Sami Mustafa – Fatima Jinnah Girls School, Nishtar Road, Karachi

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Jawwad

Four experiments down the road, Sami is now on his fifth. This time he is not doing it alone. He is aiming at something much larger and visible and he has put everything he has learnt in the last 12 years to work. Fatima Jinnah Girls School, Nishtar Road, Karachi is home to an entire…

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Get well soon Jehan – update

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Jawwad

Jehan has not been well the past few days.  High fever and other related symptoms.  She was finally (forcibly?) checked into OMI today. I hope she has her laptop and that OMI has cutting edge wireless connectivity. And that she gets well soon. Update as at 03 October evening: Fever is under control but platelet count…

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The Alchemy Story – redux

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Jawwad

This has been an interesting week. I was out for a week in Dubai teaching our second course on derivative pricing at the EMBA program at SP Jain. The day I come back and check out my favorite blogs, I find that we received great coverage first from Osama Hashmi at Green and White, then…

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Oppss I did it again

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Jawwad

Yup. Me and wordpress don’t interface well.  For that matter, me and blogspot didn’t interface well too.. I am now actively looking for some one to take ownership for maintaining this blog. I will do the writing, you do the pressing. Please send in a short application confirming that you will work for the sheer…

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Now playing James Blunt…

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Jawwad

1973, Billy, Annie, You are Beautiful, Cry

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Sami Mustafa – CAS and beyond

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Jawwad

But Sami has a new question. Sami has had this question since 1981. From the year before I started at BVS. Don’t other children deserve to be happy? To be confident? To grow? To find their own Dina M. Mistri? To dance away with the wind and look at loving faces that look back with…

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Sami Mustafa – one

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Jawwad

1983…I went to a Parsi school. There it is out there and out of my system. It gave me a solid footing as an individual and put me in care of teachers who changed my life. I found friends who have stayed with me in thick and thin and to whom I still turn to…

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I know I am old when….

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Jawwad

I get drenched thrice in an evening storm on the rare occassion where I actually wore a suit for a client demo… and look forward to getting drenched a fourth time…In younger days, I wouldn’t have worn a suit… Psss. Yes I am still alive and kicking.  

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In search of Profound(ness)

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Jawwad

In a country marked by religious intolerance and extremisim, the most popular underground band comes from the bazars of Peshawar. For a nation in mourning after Lal masjid, Pervez Hoodbhoy summarize the paradox faced by our civil society… “The Lal Masjid ideologues did not rouse their followers to action on matters of poverty, unemployment, poor…

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Why is it a bad idea to pee on toilet seats… or the State of bathrooms in this country?

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Jawwad

In my undeniable quest for controversy and traffic, I now have to stoop to the gutter (metaphorically speaking). And no I am not talking about just the Golden Arches bathrooms at Karachi Airport and/or Sea View. This is equally true for private bathrooms, be they at offices or homes. Every single time I have opened…

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