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World of myriad ragas
 Leaving the Chawkandi Art in her company, where she recently held her first solo show, we soon acquired an entourage of very young flower sellers who looked as if they would like to present their flowers to Nazia....
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Egged on by passion
 At a recent exhibition at the Rohtas-2, Gallery, Lahore, sculptor Humaira Abid showed a collection of 19 carved wooden pieces, each individual form created from a single block of wood. The...
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Hail Hamza, the brave explorer
 The World media is totally preoccupied rather monopolized by the frenzy of war in Iraq, every inch of major newspaper columns and every minute of television channels are immersed in the...
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Red between the lines
 While Western historians, such as the late Annmarie Schimmel, have done much to rescue our literary and spiritual heritage from obscurity, who would have thought that a popular Turkish novelist, Orhan...
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I paint, therefore I am
 In a late poem, Jorge Luis Borges thanks the gathering darkness of amaurosis for rescuing him from the prolixity of the real: what is particularly singular is to be discerned by...
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Not just child’s play
 The Human Rights Education Programme arranged an art exhibition and prize distribution ceremony for children on April 1 at the Arts Council, Karachi. Several hundred entries were on display from April...
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J’accuse!
The French foreign ministry said last week in a statement that it was “very concerned” about the fate of the archaeological and historical treasures of Iraq, especially given the callous way...
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Sunday painters
 In Europe and America, and may be in other parts of the civilized world too, there is a breed called Sunday painters. They are amateurs in art and pursuing their regular...
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