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Artistic adornments
 An artist who can paint, sculpt and craft, Shakil Ismail is known mostly for his distinctive style of Islamic calligraphy on the objets d’art that he creates. But his jewellery-making enterprise...
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Miniature views and expression
 Viewing the work of four young miniature painters at the Chawkandi Art, it was fascinating to muse on the developments that have taken place in the exquisite art form from the...
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Reflections of a bygone age
 A recent exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, gave a fascinating view of the history of hand-knotted carpets, tracing their evolution from a humble object used by...
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For the sake of freedom
 “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” — Burke. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere in the world and it needs to be countered, individually and collectively, actively or by proxy...
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Awarding art
 There was a time when the arts were not only encouraged but nurtured by the wealthy of our society. Kings, rajahs and nawabs gave stipends to poets, artists, masons and weavers....
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Moeen Faruqi’s new realism
 Marchel Duchamp, the Dadaist who revolutionized concepts of art and beauty in the early 20th century said: ‘The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the...
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Wasteful spending
Kamran Lashari, being a son of Lahore, has always wanted to do something for the city. When he became the information secretary, Punjab, he seized the opportunity to realize some of...
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The new Harappa
 Harappa has been in the news recently. No, nothing startling has been discovered in the old excavations that brought to light the ruins of a city nearly 4,000 years old; it...
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