Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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Gogi’s gorgeous life
 The main character in O. Henry’s remarkable short story ‘The Master’ had one thing strange about him, he would surface at a time when people were about to forget him. This is true of Gogi as well. Gogi is the popular comic strip character...
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Flights of imagination
 Words are finite: they cannot express what is in my heart or Jamil’s. That can only be discerned in every stroke and line of his wonderful paintings: my collection. Treasured in my innermost being are the words: From Jamil to Najmi,’ says Najmi Sura....
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Buddha’s story
 The Lahore Museum is the oldest in Pakistan and was established in 1864 in the Tollington Market building. It moved to its present premises on The Mall in 1894. Featuring artefacts from the Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and Jain cultures...
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Museum of the mind
 If all the ideas implicit in the Museum of the Mind show at the British Musuem were physically manifest in the exhibition itself, it would be a brilliant, dizzying affair. Unfortunately,...
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Bright lights, big city
 The six British contenders for European Capital of Culture 2008 — Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle-Gateshead and Oxford — are very different. Yet, because of the rules of engagement, they are doing their best to...
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Celebrating humanity
 Rahat Masud’s light and airy studio in her Lahore Defence Society home reflects the sensitive and spiritual artist who, in her own words, uses the visual medium to express “hope and quest.” Her workplace is uncluttered...
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Resurrecting a heritage
 After changing numerous hands, Tollinton Market, the 19th century landmark on The Mall facing Anarkali Bazar, has finally landed with the city district government. The Lahore Nazim, Mian Aamer Mahmood, seems...
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Educate the public too
 Exactly a hundred years ago, the British government in India was headed by Lord Curzon, Viceroy and Governor-General. He was reputedly short-tempered and a slave-driver, as a recent biography published in...
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