Winds of change
The profession chosen for him was engineering — that was what his father did. But after two terms in the Engineering College of Lahore, Raheel Akbar Javed found out his non-suitability for the calling....
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Ode to the Mughal grandeur
Ebba Koch has handled the elaborate and complex history of the evolution of a Mughal architectural style — Indian, Pakistani, Islamic and highly popular, all at once — in a comprehensive...
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Out of the barracks, into the museum
Situated in the heart of Istanbul is the famous and oldest military museum of Turkey, the Ataturk Askeri Muze. The museum not only contains a large number of historical military exhibits...
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Encounters in the third dimension
That art collectors in major cities of Pakistan are now adding carved or moulded three dimensional pieces to their art collections is largely due to the persistence of artists who continue...
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Truck to Washington
For two weeks around July 4, the US Independence Day holiday, the surreal looking — despite all its realness — traditionally decorated Pakistani truck juxtaposed with Washington’s famous landmarks greeted residents...
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Celebrating the child within
An exhibition of 25 paintings by Firdous Aziz is on at Majmua, Karachi till the end of the month. Aziz was trained as a fine artist at the Karachi School of...
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Indus roars back
Walking in the footsteps of her late husband and carrying his legacy forward may not be as daunting a task as Shahnaz Imam imagines....
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PUNJA BUZZ: Wild goes the Rohtas
It seems it was now time for the Rohtas Fort to fall victim to vandalism on more than one count. The colossal monument overlooking the Jhelum river was signed on to...
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