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Pakistani Truck Artist pays Homage to George Floyd 

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“This artwork not only pays reverence to George Floyd but it pays a tribute to everyone fighting inequality and injustice”, said the Pakistani Truck Artist Haider Ali as he painted a mural of Floyd on the wall of his house in Karachi, Pakistan.
The portrait of George Floyd is painted in the traditional Pakistani truck art style. Alongside are slogans written depicting the popular truck poetry manner, “Goron ki na kaalon ki Dunya dil walon ki” and “Hum kalay hain tou kya huwa dil walay hain”.

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The background of Haider Ali’s piece is the black night sky with starts twinkling on it.” Black is an essential color of the universe .It is due to the black color of the sky that we are able to see the stars. Every Artist in the world realizes the importance and beauty of the black color”, explained the truck artist beautifully. “ALLAH Almighty has…

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City Food – Tandoori Chai, Zahra’s Restaurant & Café

An out-of-the-box tea. We all know about tandoori chicken and tandoori roti. But… tandoori chai? That’s more or less what they’re serving at an …

City Food – Tandoori Chai, Zahra’s Restaurant & Café

Searching for a City’s Spirit at the Lahore Biennale

Amid works by international artists and local projects focused on other Pakistani cities, I kept wondering where is Lahore?

Searching for a City’s Spirit at the Lahore Biennale

The walled city Lahore

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A Suitable Boy- the very first review ever of 1993 — Pratima Mitchell

Vikram Seth at home 28 years ago THE SUITABLE BOY COMES HOME reads the headline “Vikram Seth’s book has universal appeal with its many levels and versatile use of language” The Pioneer Book page of January 27, 1993 Nearly thirty years ago I was a columnist for the Pioneer newspaper in India. I wrote a…

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Speaking Easy: Allama Iqbal’s Grandson – Yousaf Salahuddin

via Speaking Easy: Allama Iqbal’s Grandson – Yousaf Salahuddin – on his Current Project and the Future of Art and Culture in Pakistan

Originally published 5 Sept 2012 but relevant today.

If you want to read further also see this article in The Friday Times by Muhammad Asif Nawaz, The old world charms of Mian Salli, originally published 25 July 2014.

“Reversing the Gaze”? Two books, two reviews.

What Made the East India Company So Successful? Analysis Goes Missing in Dalrymple by Rudrangshu Mukherjee, The India Forum, 11 Oct 2019

William Dalrymple’s book on the East India Company is written very well and has a great deal of detail. But the writing of good History needs more. It calls for a consideration of all relevant facts and a comprehensive analysis. This is unfortunately missing.

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, And The Pillage Of An Empire By William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury, Rs 699.

LSE Blog:  Long Read Book Review: Masala Shakespeare: How a Firangi Writer Became Indian by Jonathan Gil Harris

In Masala Shakespeare: How a Firangi Writer Became Indian by Jonathan Gill Harris, Harish Trivedi (Former Professor of English, Delhi) finds a book that examines the similarities between India and Shakespeare. Taking the author’s understanding of the word masala (in this case meaning something hybrid, mixed or more-than-one), Trivedi explains the problems of such a comparison and literary interpretation of Indian society and culture.

Masala Shakespeare: How a Firangi Writer Became Indian. Jonathan Gil Harris. New Delhi: Aleph, 2018. 282 pp.

 

 

A Pakistani homeland for Buddhism: Buddhist art, Muslim nationalism and global public history

Buddhist iconography is an important element in India’s national flag and national emblem, and Buddhist sites in India, such as the Ajanta Caves and Bodh Gaya are well known. In contrast, Pakistan’s engagement with its own Buddhist heritage has received far less attention. Andrew Amstutz (University of Arkansas, USA) explains his ongoing research that examines…

via Long Read: A Pakistani homeland for Buddhism: Buddhist art, Muslim nationalism and global public history — South Asia @ LSE