Mubarak Wakhani: Yumgan’s Leonardo da Vinci
https://youtu.be/Z-k1BlHYpXc Yumgan Wakhani Museum is a treasure trove of artefacts, pottery, musical instruments and various objects invented by or remained
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Literature
Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh
British colonial officer John Biddulph’s book is considered as one of the pioneering works in English that provided an insight to
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The Pamirian Languages: Between Past and Future
The case of the Shughni language by Farman Ali The Pamirian languages are spoken by people in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Gilgit-Baltistan
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Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle
There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their
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Remembering Antonio Gramsci
By Lorenzo Alfano Antonio Gramsci died on April 27, 1937, after eleven years in fascist prisons. We remember his revolutionary life
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Art’s relationship with power
by Harris Khalique | | It is indeed a matter of profound privilege and great pleasure to deliver this
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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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Frida Kahlo was a captivating subject for photographers
The artist took photography as seriously as painting By Celia Stahr Frida Kahlo, like her father, used photographic images—often with written words
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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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The graveyard talks back –I
Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register
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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100 – II
Raza Naeem on the modernism of Muhammad Hasan Askari (1919 – 1978) It is often stated that a new age
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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100-III
In Askari’s view, the West became victim to depravity in its quest for progress Raza Naeem on the modernism of
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Speakers describe Iftikhar Arif ’pride of Urdu’
SDPI honors the living legend with ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his contribution to Urdu language, literature
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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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Rumi – an inspiration to Pakistani poets, writers
Pakistanis are familiar with Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi – a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar – as famous poets
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