Ayesha Chundrigar, the founder of the animal rescue organisation ACF, is a vocal opponent of zoos and recently met with Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Shah to demand an end to “zoo culture” in order to combat animal cruelty. She requested that sanctuaries be built or that the animals be relocated to another country. Chundrigar’s […]
Arts, Culture & Books
North Korean awarded death sentence for smuggling ‘Squid Game’
A North Korean man has been sentenced to death after he was caught trying to smuggle copies of Netflix’s hit show Squid Game into the country, reported Radio Free Asia (RFA). Sources told RFA that the authorities were led to the man after high school students who had bought copies of the show from him […]
French embassy in Pakistan praises Islamic art department at Louvre Museum
In a bid to show France’s positive and delicate picture for Islam, the French consulate in Pakistan Thursday brings the Department of Islamic Art at the Louver Museum into the light. Taking to Twitter the numerous photos of the Islamic workmanship shown at the Louver Museum, the government office tweeted, “Since 2012 & a presidential […]
Frida Kahlo exhibition brings her work alive
With larger-than-life projections of her work, music and journal extracts, a new exhibition aims to bring Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo’s paintings to life to mark the 114th anniversary of her birth. “Frida. The Immersive Experience” presents 26 of the most emblematic works of the late painter, known for her striking self-portraits often brimming with pain and […]
Sale of rare Leonardo drawing triggers legal battle in France
A small pen-and-ink drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which lay buried unrecognised in a box for decades, is at the centre of a battle between its owner and France’s culture ministry that will play out in a Paris court on Wednesday. The court will begin hearing if the the drawing of a martyred Saint […]
Book Review: The Alchemist
The Alchemist all starts with a boy having a dream. This boy’s name is Santiago, a young shepherd from Andalusian, Spain. He has the dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. The dream is recurring again and again and in that dream, a child […]
Contemporary art in Pakistan – an outsider’s perspective
Immediately upon entering I was amazed by the diversity of mediums and topics on display in the recent exhibition ‘Vision Weavers’ presented by Artsoch at the launch of their second art gallery on MM Alam road ‘Artsoch Contemporary’. ‘Vision Weavers’ was not an ordinary art exhibition. It was a collaboration of 26 different artists […]
Book Review: 1984
1984 is a dystopian fiction by George Orwell. What George Orwell does in this novel I cannot even describe to you. It is an absolute masterpiece and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I believe that this has been the greatest book that I have ever read thus far, and I think absolutely nothing can compare […]
From tattoos to tokens at Tokyo’s first crypto art show
Tokyo tattoo artist Ichi Hatano’s usual business has dwindled during the pandemic, but now he’s keen to mine a new stream of income at Japan‘s first crypto art exhibition. Hatano’s ink featuring Japanese folk creatures was especially popular with foreign visitors until Japan closed its borders to tourists due to Covid-19. Hatano has now gone […]
Homer
In his poem the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley praises the ache ancient Greek poets from 800BC. Whose only two books are alive and our eyes are very fortunate to lay gaze on it, which are; ” The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” Iliad is a long epic poem which is based on war of Troy. […]