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Photo Friday: Olafur Eliasson’s ice art installation in London

By thehighasia
February 8, 2019
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Runyu Liang Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson placed twenty-four blocks of glacier ice outside of the Tate Modern in London. He placed another six blocks outside the European headquarters of Bloomberg, also in London. The installations, unveiled in December, are part of a series called Ice Watch, which Eliasson began in Copenhagen in 2014 at the release of IPCC’s fifth comprehensive report on …

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Olzhas Suleimenov on Eurasianism, internationalism and the forgotten past

By thehighasia
February 8, 2019
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This interview with Olzhas Suleimenov was initially published in 2015 in the book Art-Atmosphere of Alma-Ata, co-authored by Zitta Sultanbayeva and Asya Nuriyeva. This is a shortened version of the text. It employed the articles and interviews of A. Arischevsky, T. Nusipbekov, K. Maitrekov, and Z. Sultanbayeva, as well as a transcript of O. Suleimenov’s speech at the KazNU conference dedicated …

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Why artists often critique rather than endorse nationalism

By thehighasia
January 30, 2019
in :  Arts & Culture, Features, Literature, Pakistan, Slider, Society
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Dua Abbas Rizvi Nationalism in the arts can be seen as a contradiction in terms. Paying homage to the nation state requires acquiescence and acceptance whereas artists by their very nature are rebels and scrutinisers. Can the idea of a nation state still appeal to their sentimental and nostalgic sides? Can they see ‘nation’ as evoking the notion of ‘home’ …

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Video of the Week: Himalayan Rap

By thehighasia
January 3, 2019
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Runyu Liang This week’s video features Himalayan rap set in New York City. The rap refers to the new generation of the land of snow and to classic items of Tibetan cuisine, specifically Tsampa, made from barley flour and mixed with Tibetan butter tea. Named after Tsampa, the rap is produced by Zurich-based Tibetan rapper Karma Emchi, also known as …

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Bollywood in 2018: The year’s best songs (and Arijit Singh is still the undisputed king)

By thehighasia
December 30, 2018
in :  Arts & Culture, Features, Latest, Showbiz
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The composers who stood out were Ajay-Atul, Niladri Kumar, Shashwat Sachdev and Shantanu Moitra, and among lyricists, Shellee and Varun Grover.   Devarsi Ghosh For Hindi film music, 2018 was a much better year than 2017, even though we got no albums from Pritam or Vishal-Shekhar and the only Vishal Bhardwaj-Gulzar collaboration was a sorry dud. Amit Trivedi dropped nine …

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The other Jaun Elia-II

By thehighasia
December 25, 2018
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  By Zameer Abbas I shared the first part of this piece on an elitist WhatsApp group of government officials, assuming that the members would read and comment on it. But, barring two out of 49 participants, the piece was met with a bureaucratic indifference. Perhaps the group members, well-educated by all standards, found the piece uninteresting even though most …

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The other Jaun Elia-I

By thehighasia
October 19, 2018
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In his two-part article, Zameer Abbas touches upon the other sides of Juan Ellia’s personality as a progressive thinker,  biographer, translator, and historian which have been overshadowed by his poetry. Zameer Abbas The popularity of Jaun Elia (1931-2002) as a poet has risen in recent times. Despite his intellectual versatility, he was not as well-known during his lifetime as he …

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Riches from rags, Ahmed’s paintings a window to his past, reflection on relationships  

By thehighasia
October 15, 2018
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By Farman Ali Islamabad, Oct 14: Artist and poet Ahmed Habib’s latest artwork is a self-reflection on relationships, inner conflicts, and emotional attachment with personal belongings. The exhibition titled, Aayiney (mirrors) was inaugurated by Austrian Ambassador Briggitt Blaha on Ocxtober 3 at Nomad Gallery that was followed by the screening of a short documentary on the artist’s work. A large …

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Third season of GBCL kicks off with a colourful cultural program

By thehighasia
April 26, 2018
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Ali Ahmed Jan The much-awaited Gilgit-Baltistan Champions League (GBCL) kicked off with a greater participation of the enthusiastic and talented teams from over two dozen universities and colleges of twin cities of Islamabad-Rawalpindi and Lahore. The opening ceremony of the third season of the mega event was held at the Open Air Theatre of the Pakistan National Council of the …

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Two books on the oral tradition of the Pamiri Kyrgyz launched

By thehighasia
February 27, 2018
in :  Arts & Culture, High Asia Region, Latest News, Literature, Slider, World
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HAH Report Islamabad (Feb 27): Two books on the oral tradition of Pamiri Kyrgyz people living in Turkey have been published. Authored by renowned Kyrgyz folklorist and ethnographer Dr Sulaiman Kaiypov, the books Proverbs and Sayings of the Pamiri Kyrgyz Living in Turkey, and Funeral Laments of the Pamiri Kyrgyz Living in Turkey, have been published with the support of the University of …

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Crossroads of the Silk Route

By Editor
October 21, 2017
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M. Saleem Beg Leh, the capital of Ladakh and the first major town as one descends from the Tibetan plateau and the Karakoram mountain range, has been variously described as a “true little capital, the seat of a tiny cosmopolitan world” and it has been said that “what Port Said is to the Suez Canal, Leh is to the Central …

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Shutdown, cleanup

By Editor
October 20, 2017
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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar AND so Nawaz, Maryam and Safdar have been indicted. All while reconciliation between Maryam and Hamza is in the works. And all while Safdar’s hateful speech in the National Assembly continues to create ripples inside and outside the N-League inner circle. For good measure, Imran’s troubles in the Supreme Court are also in the headlines. Will we …

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Slain Indian journalist and Pakistani peace activist share award

By Editor
October 5, 2017
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MUMBAI, Oct 5: Two fearless Asian women who have risked their lives campaigning against religious extremism — one of whom was murdered last month — won a joint award Thursday for their common courage. Gauri Lankesh, 55, an outspoken Indian newspaper editor, was shot dead outside her home by unidentified assailants in the southern city of Bengaluru, at a time of …

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The misfits in the ‘Land of the Pure’

By Editor
September 29, 2017
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By Waseem Altaf Qurattulain Haider, author of one of the greatest Urdu novels ‘Aag Ka Darya’ had come to Pakistan in 1949. By then she had attained the stature of a world-class writer. She joined the Press Information Department and served there for quite some time. In 1959 her novel ‘Aag ka Darya’ was published which raised important questions about …

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From the Great Game to the game-changer

By Editor
September 13, 2017
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Aziz Ali Dad Gilgit-Baltistan has historically remained at the peripheries of the power centres of Central Asia and South Asia. This relative isolation enabled local communities to develop indigenous social, state and economic structures that allowed small principalities to remain autonomous in decision-making. Despite its political marginality and geographic inaccessibility, GB managed to develop trade routes with Central Asia and …

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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