January 20th, 2009

LOTUS in bloom. By Ink

Selina Rashid heads Lotus Client Management & Public Relations – a one of its kind, Lahore based PR Company dedicated to the art, entertainment, and lifestyle and fashion side of life. It is not an event management or advertising company – ‘PR is always confused with event management and advertising! We do event PR not its actual management: we look after their publicity needs. This essentially means ensuring the event is hyped in the press before it happens, while it happens (live TV and radio) and after it happens through interviews, news bytes and features. We cover every medium of press communication, such as broadsheets, Continue

Make a music album in Rs. 50,000- A tutorial for young, aspiring, penniless musicians.

By Huma Sattar

Ready?

You have spent the last couple of years either down in your garage with your musical instruments and your band members, jamming, or locked in your room writing truly soul-searching lyrics for songs you would later on compose for. Then, one day you wake up to realize your work is not finished. Yet. You realize, the purpose of all those times you toiled at those songs and those compositions was to share it with the world. Let the world know what talents hid behind those sound proof doors of the garage. I am not exaggerating. You, an aspiring and a rather inspired musician are finally ready to hit it big. You are ready to put all those lyrics and compositions and jamming sessions together to make a music album of your very own- with your face on the cover, your songs in the CD and copyrights in your name. Continue

Too Clichéd to say

“An Experience of a Life Time”?

By Mishelle Raza

So here goes a short story …. It starts like this:

Last year, August to be precise, my friend and I were scanning through her pictures on facebook … wonders technology is!

While going through her albums, I saw that one album was titled “World Youth Congress – Scotland!” In that album were assortments of pictures showing her contribution to one of the world’s largest youth congregations. Interestingly, I didn’t bother to ask her much more.

A few days later, sitting idle at home, my devil’s workshop of a mind instigated me to Google it … and what did I find?? This event takes place once in three years … Scotland 2005 … Québec City 2008!!! And registrations had just commenced! The objectives of the Regeneration, the 4th World Youth Congress were to develop skills and support to enable them, more effectively, to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. To honor the achievements of the most Continue