My Father - A Poem By Iftikhar Naseem
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 Posted in Books, Culture, Pakistan, USA, Urdu Poetry | 14 Comments »Through a post by Adnan, I got to know about Iftikhar Naseem. He is a Pakistani born poet who writes fine Urdu poems and lives in Chicago. He is homosexual by nature and it takes courage to come out, especially ...
Useful Online Dictionaries
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 Posted in Books | No Comments »Digital Dictionaries of South Asia with Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and many more. Webster's Multilingual Online Dictionary with a large number of languages from around the world. It uses a more commonly used Urdu transliteration scheme compared to the venerable ...
Come On, The Da Vinci Code Fans !
Monday, May 29th, 2006 Posted in Books, Movies, USA | No Comments »I am a big IMDB fan and also a regular visitor. I think that the movie ratings at IMDB are mostly credible, mainly because of a large and random sample size of the voters involved. Since The Da Vinci ...
After Watching The Da Vinci Code
Saturday, May 20th, 2006 Posted in Books, Movies, USA | 5 Comments »Did I like The Da Vinci Code? No. Why? Because it is a very poor adaptation of a very poor book. I didn't like the book, so one could argue that I was biased against the movie from the word go. But ...
