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4th Annual Urdu Culture Show at UC Berkeley was held on May 3rd, 2009. After being disappointed last year, I was expecting improvement this year and I am glad to say that this year’s show was ten times better than the last one.

The usual line up of acts included a live song, poem recitation, ghazal [...]

After the success of last year’s Urdu Cultural show, Pakistani Student Association at University of California, Berkeley have organized yet another show this year.
Urdu is a language that is spoken by approximately 60 – 80 million speakers in five nations worldwide. Additionally, Urdu is spoken by millions in both India and Pakistan, two nations [...]

Recently UC Berkeley’s PakSA (Pakistani Student Association) has become quite active and they have decided to have a movie night coming Wednesday, October 8th, to screen the best Pakistani movie ever made (in my opinion).
Khuda Kay Liye is about the turmoil currently rampant in Pakistan where the seculars are up against the Talibanization [...]

I moved to Berkeley last year in July and since then there has been this tree-sitter issue going on in the city of Berkeley. This issue is mainly related to U.C. Berkeley campus but as the city of Berkeley is 90% about U.C. Berkeley and what happens there, it wasn’t unusual to hear or [...]

I reviewed this show last week and now I have couple of videos to share with you. I mentioned in my review that all the acts like the song/ghazal performances, Qawwali, and Khabarnama were very nicely done. Well… here I have two videos; one is of the Qawwali and the other is of a funny [...]