In the UK; well in London, at least. the word Paki has been retrieved form the minds and mouths of the racists here, who hijacked it in the first place, and is now used with affection. "Pak" in Urdu, means clean and it is a badge worn with pride. Several of my Pakistani friends...
on the stem of a Farsi verb meaning “to speak.” (In that language, the ultimate source of the Urdu word,gooyameans “as it were,”“as you would say” or “apparently.”) So how did this happen? There is something deeply seductive about the idea that other languages contain codes t...
As been mentioned in our meeting,Roshniis beautifully knitted in a Domestic story by writer and director Zara Khan (LSE).Itis a melodramatic play which talks about self-awareness, change from within and patriotism with its subtle and major chunk of humor and puns. This is an original urdu pl...
Lacking any hold on pretense, Vernon and his crew have nowhere to hide from such questions. As a hilarious assortment of mercenary searchers bears down on Vernon and his tape, he emerges as a new kind of messiah of the dispossessed, who know from experience what it means to have no one ...
Since 2008 when the Indian Premiere League (IPL) burst on the world cricket platform for the first time it has never looked back. This tournament has received an overwhelming response from the cricket fans all across the globe. IPL has given a very good platform to showcase own talent not ...
Everything in open source involves other people. You're looking to join a team, and that means understanding the community and how it works. Walking in to a project and saying "Hi, here's what I think this project should be doing" is usually not taken as a good thing. Some projects...