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Food taboos: Kalasha women victim of faith, patriarchy

By thehighasia
January 27, 2020
in :  Arts & Culture, Chitral, Features, Health, High Asia Region, Hindu Kush Ranges, Latest, Lifestyle, People, Religion, Slider, Society, Women
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High Asia Herald Report There are certain food taboos in some Asian and African communities and tribes that are prohibited for women. Especially pregnant women are prohibited from taking in essential food and drinks. It is transferred from generation to generation and has a negative effect on pregnant mothers’ health.  In Ethiopia’s eastern district pregnant women avoid linseed, coffee, tea, …

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Climate change: Ladakh’s nomads and pashmina wool’s future

By thehighasia
January 26, 2020
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Each family has several hundred goats, all of which need to be moved separately so they don’t get mixed up in the Changthang plateau.–Andrew Newey At an altitude of 5,000 metres (16,400 feet), it is hard to believe anyone, or anything can survive up in the vast ice desert of Changthang region straddling the Tibetan Plateau between India and China, …

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How Ikat accompanied history in Central Asia

By thehighasia
January 24, 2020
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Ikat is a fabric that got its name from the resist dye technique used to make its patterns. But Professor Elmira Gyul, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, explains about ikat from a different perspective not as a unique artistic creation, but as a social phenomenon whose role has changed from …

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Life among the graves in northern Afghanistan

By thehighasia
January 18, 2020
in :  Afghanistan, Features, High Asia Region, Human Rights, Latest, Lifestyle, People
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  https://rferl.org/a/afghanistan-homeless-family-cemetery/30381496.     An ethnic Turkmen family in northern Afghanistan was homeless and desperate — so they took shelter in a cemetery alongside other destitute people. But when locals learned about the family’s troubles from a report by RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, they stepped forward to help.

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Culture is soul of a nation: Dr Fouzia

By thehighasia
January 18, 2020
in :  Arts & Culture, China, Diplomacy, Environment, Features, Heritage, High Asia Region, Latest, Latest News, Lifestyle, Pakistan, People, Slider, Society
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Chinese new year music gala and intangible art show draws big crowed at PNCA   By Farman Ali Islamabad, Jan 17: A cultural gala featuring thrilling opera dances, enchanting musical performances, and display of tradition art heralded Chinese New Year and spring season at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on Thursday evening. The show drew a large …

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Harry, Meghan and Marx

By thehighasia
January 16, 2020
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Brand Sussex represents the biggest threat to the monarchy so far Marx predicted that capitalism would destroy every remnant of feudalism. It would tear asunder “the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors’”, in the words of “The Communist Manifesto”. It would drown ecstasies of religious fervour and chivalric enthusiasm in the “icy water of egotistical calculation”. And …

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Reshman aspires to be the first female newscaster from Kalash valley

By thehighasia
December 30, 2019
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By Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: Reshman has a dream. She wants to be the first girl from Kalash Valley of Chitral to become a television newscaster wearing her traditional Kalasha dress. “It is my childhood dream to appear on TV and read news about my valley and the world,” says Reshman, from Anish village of Kalash Valley. Despite the fact …

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Pakistan tops list of best 2020 holiday destinations

By thehighasia
December 15, 2019
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View of K-2 & Muztagh Tower from Abruzi Glacier”. The adventure traveller’s must-visit goes from strength to strength, wrote the award-winning luxury and lifestyle travel magazine, and highlighted popular destinations in Pakistan.   Gahkuch, headquarter of Ghizer District Stymied by tales of terrorism for the past two decades, Pakistan’s tourism sector has witnessed steady growth and an increase in visit of …

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Destroying Soviet architecture in Central Asia

By thehighasia
December 13, 2019
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Herald Report Soviet architecture in Central Asia, as the name tells, is a fusion of Soviet modernity with traditional Central Asian culture that remains remarkable to this day, writes Xeniya Mironova, in Voice on Central Asia website. Persian and Islamic motifs can be still found among Soviet buildings in Dushanbe, Tashkent, Almaty, and Bishkek. But these buildings are becoming exceedingly …

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Wine, wit and wisdom

By thehighasia
December 9, 2019
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Wine tourism creates jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities, says UNWTO general secretary

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Chitrali, Kailasha cultures showcased in capital

By thehighasia
December 8, 2019
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Fashion show and handicraft from the two valleys were also on display at the Aabpara Community Centre

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The ethnographic collection of Kyrgyz museum of fine arts

By thehighasia
December 4, 2019
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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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Beyond her: a photographic journey

By thehighasia
October 8, 2019
in :  Arts & Culture, Features, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Hunza, Latest, Lifestyle, Media, People, Women
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  By Kamran Karim  The photographic journey offers a space for observers to create their own world of imagination and fascination. We always tend to subsume or embrace new ideas and intuition to come up with new marvels. Anticipation is a part of the processing vision of abstract. It is not just a visible world; encircling signs and dotes with …

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Kalashas losing their cultural identity to external intrusions   

By thehighasia
October 1, 2019
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Over 4,000 Kalashas, belonging to an ancient pagan tribe are living in three valleys in the Hindu Kush mountains   by Ali Ahmed Jan Kalasha, an ancient ethnic pagan tribe living in high mountains of Hindu Kush for centuries, is striving to preserve its unique but endangered intangible cultural heritages from extremism, external intrusion, and coercion. They live a commune …

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Uchawo festival ends amid dances, songs

By thehighasia
August 23, 2019
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Young people select their future life partner; tourists complain about dilapidated roads, lack of facilities in Kalash valley   By Karimullah & Gul Hammad Farooqi CHITRAL: The three-day Uchawo festival concluded at Bumburet here on Thursday amid great fanfare, dances, music, prayers and pledges for spending life together by young couples at Bumburet, Kalash valley of Chitral District. The festival …

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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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