Your undergraduate program makes a step-change impact in your life. I was lucky to go to Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan’s top university, but few are that fortunate. In order to help one deserving student study at LUMS every year, my BS class of 2010 raised PKR 14 million and setup an endowment fund. We […]
Technology professor Khurram Siddiqi got fed up with getting lost in Lahore. So, as he tells Nicola Twilley, he and some friends started a signage project to fix things. “In Lahore, you don’t get lost: you start off lost,” says Khurram Siddiqi. “It’s a condition, not a situation.” Siddiqi, and his friends Asim Fayaz and Omer Sheikh, wrote a proposal to install and maintain […]
Landlords built Lahore in a haphazard way over centuries. They didn’t concern themselves with city grids or sensible mapping. As a result, Lahore is renowned in Pakistan for being almost impossible to navigate. And that’s where Asim Fayaz and Khurram Siddiqi come in. Fayaz and Siddiqi won a $10,000 grant from TED, the U.S.-based foundation […]
TED, in addition to their genre-defining conferences, also awards the TED Prize each year to a game changing idea. It is usually awarded to individuals, like Bill Clinton and Bono, but in 2012, TED decided to award it to “an idea for continued flourishing: The City2.0, an exploration of the intersection of ingenuity and urbanity”. Omer […]
TEDxLahore provided the perfect platform to celebrate and honour the work of Pakistanis who may not have always been in the spotlight. This week, the city of Lahore got under my skin. It wasn’t just the idiosyncrasies and beauty of the city that crept into my resolutely Karachi-heart, but the people that I was able […]
On July 31st, 2010, over 450 people from all over Pakistan congregated at Ali Auditorium for TEDxLahore, Pakistan’s largest TEDx event. In only its second year, TEDxLahore, has arguably become Pakistan’s largest forum to share ideas that can help change for the better. TEDxLahore 2010, operated under license from TED, was filmed live at Ali […]
A TEDx organizer says goodbye to apathy and reactive behaviour as she discovers heroes all around her. The upcoming event inspires her to believe that the ‘truth is out there.’ Organizing an event like TEDxLAHORE is no easy feat. Imagine pulling a ship over a mountain with nothing but your inexhaustible belief that you will do this […]