Moborate

You know how, sometimes, you want to write a post on something big and important but then along comes something trivial but so funny that it's hard to pass up? Well, that's what I feel right now. See the following ad featured on the back page of The News today, featuring a line up of Geo TV 's drama serials for the week: Geo TV ad in The News today Read the descriptions of the storylines. In the interest of easy reading, I am reproducing them verbatim below (my favourite has to be #4): 1. Is woman made to sacrifice herself on man's desire? 2. Is a woman so useless that she can be kept and left on one's own wish? 3. Does a widow have the right to remarry? 4. Helpless woman with limited options. 5. Is it really hard to believe a woman? 6. Is a woman born only to be used? 7. Is woman so weak that any man can shake her existence? What a rollicking week of entertainment to look forward to. Or could one say that the success of the relentlessly misery-focused  Bol has g...

I have to admit that I have either been too slack or too busy in the last few days to do posts on a number of issues that deserve posts. Unfortunately, too many things happen all at the same time (it's Pakistan, what're you gonna do?) so posts get, in the words of bureaucracy, 'pended'. Hopefully I'll get round to at least a couple of them. One of the ones I've been 'working on' for a couple of weeks now has to do with the advertising world, which deserves a lot more attention I feel than we end up giving it, thanks to a never-ending cycle of 'breaking news.' But related to advertising, today I just want to focus on a curious little legal notice that appeared on page 5 in Dawn which made me sit up and take, as it were, notice. Here is the notice: In case, you can't read the print easily, this is what it says: "The public-at-large [don't you just love the concept of the 'public-at-large'?] is hereby informed that M/s Telecom ...