When Women Ruled the World advocates that Egyptians were way ahead of their time on December 9, 2019Despite the prompt availability of online dictionaries and thesauri, there exists a list of words which entitles its user with the copyright to improvise its meaning; consequently, making these words idiosyncratic in nature. Words like: spirituality, love, hate, religion, happiness etc. No matter how much you bicker over their exact meaning still nothing is absolute. […]
When Women Ruled the World advocates that Egyptians were way ahead of their time on December 8, 2019Despite the prompt availability of online dictionaries and thesauri, there exists a list of words which entitles its user with the copyright to improvise its meaning; consequently, making these words idiosyncratic in nature. Words like: spirituality, love, hate, religion, happiness etc. No matter how much you bicker over their exact meaning still nothing is absolute. […]
When challenges your conventional outlook on life on July 13, 2019Imagine you start a business with an aim to soar high in the market; however, after some time your business starts to dwindle. On thinking, you realise nothing was wrong with your business plan or budgeting skills, everything had been spot on; what if you get to know that the decision you took wasn’t bad […]
Remembering the legendary Jamil Naqsh on May 19, 2019“I have no story to tell, no symphony to play, no poem to recite, no climax, no anti climax. If you must find a plot or a story then you will find it in my treatment of form, texture, colour and composition.” Walking down the lane of history, one cannot overlook but see that there […]
Revisiting world history in three books of different times on May 11, 2019If history repeats itself, I’m so getting a Dinosaur – Unknown. Is not history all about repeating itself? Look around at the states and civilisations going from the zenith of power to the ghettos of darkness; the rise and fall of best of empires happening since inception, Ottoman, Roman Holy Empire and Mughals etc. Nothing […]
Attention to detail is simply noteworthy in artworks titled ‘Of Land & Skies’ on March 25, 2019In an interview with the Telegraph India, Hammad Nasar (Head of Research and Programmes at Asia Art Archive) says that “the artists have taken the South Asian tradition of miniature to new heights, and then moved beyond the page to invent a new visual language, rooted in tradition but of the here and now.” By […]
Pakistani cuisine and the desi eating pattern on March 10, 2019Anthelme Brillat-Savarin says, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” With the present-time mushrooming of cafes, restaurants & food courts, we have begun to be skeptical about our eating patterns that for centuries had been a distinctive part of our society. Without any logical research we get convinced right […]
The art of understanding painting as a language on February 3, 2019In the history of English Literature, the bond of painting and poetry has been given many forms; most common of all is Ekphrastic poetry, in which poems were written through inspiration from painting. Meanwhile, much of the poetry has been used as an inspiration to create an art of painting and is termed as Painted […]
Embracing Urdu on February 1, 2019Despite perks and privileges of being able to speak English in Pakistan, Urdu remains to be our first language. No matter how much we eat, speak and wear English, Urdu remains a language that we mourn in. With everything being contaminated by ‘English Vinglish’ trends, our language too is facing some serious threat not only […]
Simple thought-provoking illustrations that teach us the importance of reading on January 27, 2019Our students, throughout their primary and secondary years of education, are given piles of course books to chew and swallow. This tedious task of reading prevents them from reading a book without an incentive of getting good marks. Therefore, instead of cultivating the habit of reading among our students, we let them detest this very […]