High Asia herald Report GILGIT: Pakistan’s top anti-graft body has urged youth and artists to join forces in the fight against the virus of corruption which is more lethal and spreads faster than Coronavirus. “Students should be part of the efforts in creating awareness about the ill-effects of the menace and making Pakistan a corruption-free country,” National Accountability Bureau (NAB) …

The award-winning filmmaker will direct the series for the Disney+ as the first Pakistani director Herald Report Award-winning Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has been roped in to direct ‘Ms Marvel’ series for Disney+ said a report posted by Shoaib Habib Memon, a social activist, on his LinkedIn social media page. The two-time Academy Award winner has joined the team comprising …

By Farman Ali  Islamabad: A self-taught artist has brilliantly portrayed after COVID19 ethos, in general, and fading cultural heritage as well as city life of Lahore, in particular. The online exhibition of the artworks, titled ’City Dwellers’, by Kamal Hyat, a development professional and free-spirited artist, is a succinct comment on the insensitivity of the society towards cultural heritage now …

Naba Basar discovers the secrets of healthy, organic and innovative mountain cuisine from Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. She shares her experiences of the mountain regions adventure, hospitality, social customs, lifestyle in a series of features for The High Asia Herald readers. Chilpindok – large chapattis spread with pai, homemade yogurt and qurut dried yugart and butter/apricot oil, stacked in piles. It …

Yamga Wakhani Museum is a treasure trove of artefacts, pottery, musical instruments and various objects invented by or remained in use of the Mubarak Wakhani Farman Ali Mubarakkadam Ibn Abdullo, popularly known as Mubarak Wakhani, was a multi-faceted personality — a philosopher, poet, musician, astronomer, art teacher, and Sufi (mystic) scholar — from Badakhshan, Tajikistan. Born in 1839 in a small village …

Naba Basar discovers the secrets of healthy, organic and innovative mountain cuisine from Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. She shares her experiences of the mountain regions adventure, hospitality, social customs, lifestyle in a series of features for The High Asia Herald readers. Food should never be the sole reason to travel. Fortuitously for many, it is a popular trend for both domestic …

The case of the Shughni language by Farman Ali The Pamirian languages are spoken by people in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral regions of Pakistan as well as Xinjiang province of China. The Pamirian Languages — a linguistic term — has been employed even before the advent of the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, by one of the pioneers …

There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their own lifetimes, despite believing unapologetically in their own greatness, achieving immortality only after death   Herald Report On May 11, Google celebrated the 108th birthday of renowned short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto with a doodle. Saadat Hasan Manto was …

Not a day goes by that I don’t come across a reference to your novel “Love in the Time of Cholera.” It’s impossible not to speculate about what you would have made of all this.  By Rodrigo García    Gabo, April 17 was the sixth anniversary of your death, and the world has gone on largely as it always has, …

He was one of Indian cinema’s finest actors and among its most successful exports to Hollywood. He had only just begun, writes Nandini Ramnath.   News Desk Irfan Khan (1967-2020), one of the acclaimed and finest actors of Indian cinema died in Mumbai on Wednesday. He was 53. A veteran of nearly 80 films, Irrfan almost gave up acting in his …

Painting ‘Maintain the biodiversity of magnificent Hopar Valley’ by Tahir Bilal Umii. Credit: Gallry6 Gallery6 takes initiative to provide relief to 1,000 needy families and artists   By Farman Ali   Islamabad, April 16: As the country is reeling from the devastating health, economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the poor and marginalised segments of the society are …

Dr Aftab Husain in his essay critiques South Asian literates’ response to catastrophe and epidemics and how writers in Pakistan react to COVID-19   There is a proverb in Persian and Urdu that could be roughly translated thus — ‘A collective death has an air of festivity’. The great Urdu poet, Ghalib, however, would have not subscribed to this notion …

Five-wives-of-Khodja-Nasreddin_-dir.-Olim-Salimov-Mayakovskiy-theater-photo-Ulugova Lolisanam Ulugova traces the roots, evolution and contemporary theatre in Tajikistan which goes back to ancient centuries. In her essay in the online magazine Voices on Central Asia, she discusses in detail how do theaters in Tajikistan thrive and act at times when politics in the arts is too dangerous? My recent visit to Tashkent (the capital of Uzbekistan) …

  by Harris Khalique | | It is indeed a matter of profound privilege and great pleasure to deliver this speech at the closing ceremony of the 11th Karachi Literature Festival. Particularly, because this city by the sea is my birthplace and although I have not been living here for long, “to my soul/ the streets anywhere are the streets …

The artist took photography as seriously as painting By Celia Stahr Frida Kahlo, like her father, used photographic images—often with written words accompanying them—much the way she used painted images: as a repository for her profound and sincere emotions and ideas. When Frida was in San Francisco she continued this photographic tradition. The calculated image she projected for the camera was intended …