My first thought was that I’m revamping / restructuring the blog. But I thought let’s use the term we use in our official meeting when we intend to say ‘move things around and most certainly break it’. Haha. It was really hard to gather all the million categories under one roof – ‘Blog’. The ‘Books’…
Book Review: Alif – Episode #3 (By Umera Ahmed)
The third episode unfolds some more mysteries & introduces one more character – Abul Aala, Momin’s grandpa; and the most important character, in my opinion. The episode ends on a cliff-hanger. Like really hangs the reader. The calligraphy link is stronger than I had imagined. Momin and Momina both can do calligraphy. In this episode,…
Book Review: Cinderella Retellings
Over the weekend, I tried to buddy-read a book. I enjoyed reading it, and I thought hey, I have never really read a Cinderella’s retelling before, fantasy or otherwise. I didn’t have anything to compare it with. Then I recalled reading Undercover Princess. There was one more that I started reading the sample chapters – Cinder…
Crooning Techies: The Novel
Each day, I am taking baby steps towards achieving my passion for writing. My journey for indie author is taking baby steps as well. My first full length novel is 80 percent done, and there is another 80 percent remaining. Just like my journey, I am phasing out the publishing process too. I would prefer…
Coke Studio Season 11 | Episode 6 | Zamana
Disclaimer: This review is an opinion of a music listener. I have no musical background or technical expertise. If anybody disagrees with anything in this post… well, they will have to live with it. I can’t help them 🙂 First and foremost, I apologize for late review. The coke studio episodes didn’t come last week…
Dear Google: Happy 20th
Good morning all! The first thing I do after login to my work computer is open a new tab in Google Chrome. Okay, that is not what I do. I check my emails, to find if anything needs immediate attention and then I open a new tab in Google Chrome. I have plenty of things…
Book Review: Alif – Episode #2 (By Umera Ahmed)
The second episode reveals some more characters. It reveals some relationships amongst them. And no, I’m not mentioning those here. Read for yourself 🙂 It generates further curiosity. The tracks will converge soon, based on the first two episodes. The calligraphy link is already established. This novel is sounding like Mann-o-Salwa. The setting and the…
Book Review: Alif – Episode #1 (By Umera Ahmed)
Background & Review: Much like ‘Mann-o-salwa’ the first episode is about parallel tracks and a lot of characters. This episode had introduced a few characters; characters which are not necessarily named through the episode. There are four parallel tracks. A girl / woman named Jahan who’s writing a letter. She maybe Husn-e-Jahan; but I cannot…
Book Review: Haalim – Episode #17 (By Nemrah Ahmed)
I don’t generally do episode reviews. I was planning to do a single lengthy review for Haalim. But the current episode, much-hyped episode is out and I am asked to review it. I’m asked by those readers who don’t use social media or internet, except for download Urdu novels. Nemrah and team were posting about…
First Look: Mohabbat Yun Bhi Hoti Hai (Urdu)
Title: محبت یوں بھی ہوتی ہے Author: Shabana Mukhtar Goodreads page for the book [googleapps domain=”drive” dir=”file/d/1m8CX4rvLcn_XgSZ0ZlfYSBmzSVBFeh0s/preview” query=”” width=”640″ height=”480″ /] Shabana Mukhtar Email || Blog || Goodreads || Facebook || Amazon || Twitter