1931: The Silk Road meets the auto age
From the National Geographic archives, a look back at the Citroën-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition. By BILL JONES GEORGES-MARIE HAARDT was
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Kazakh, Kyrgyz nomads under Soviet rule
In his book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the
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Mrinal Sen’s films rejected political apathy
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty on a giant of the Bengali renaissance When Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, crowds gathered outside his
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How Ikat accompanied history in Central Asia
Ikat is a fabric that got its name from the resist dye technique used to make its patterns. But Professor
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Razia Sajjad Zaheer: The forgotten virtuoso of Urdu literature
By Raza Naeem Raziya Sajjad Zaheer (1917-1979), who passed away in Delhi 40 years ago today, was one of Urdu’s most
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Destroying Soviet architecture in Central Asia
Herald Report Soviet architecture in Central Asia, as the name tells, is a fusion of Soviet modernity with traditional Central
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Celebrating Heer who challenged patriarchy in Punjab
Artists, historians, and writers are marking Punjab’s secular epic, 250 years after it was penned by Waris Shah
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Remembering Ismat Chughtai–II
Raza Naeem on the style and sensibilities of one of the boldest Urdu short-story writers Ismat Chughtai’s prose carried
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The ethnographic collection of Kyrgyz museum of fine arts
The Gapar Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts has played a significant role in exploring and preserving the rich history of Kyrgyzstan’s applied and fine arts for nearly a century.
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The last Kyrghyz ruler in Gilgit
A submachine gun that started a quest to know more about the Kirghiz exodus from the Pamirs Raheel
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Ex-Afghan President Karmal who lived a secret life in a Czech forest
KRASLICE, (Czech Republic): In the winter of 1978-79, Afghanistan’s communist regime deployed a hit squad to find and kill Babrak
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Socialism ought to come back: Francis Fukuyama
The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears
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10 inspiring Iranian poets and their verses
For centuries, Iran has been producing some of the world’s most influential and inspiring poets, whose works revolutionized the literature of
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Books: translating Central Asian literature
HAH Report Shelley Fairweather-Vega, a Seattle-based writer and translator. She translates literature from Russian and Uzbek languages into English.
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Buddhist rock art of Shatial
Anthropologist Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro takes us to an invaluable site in the Indus-Kohistan region. While traveling along the Karakorum Highway,
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