ISLAMABAD: “Encouraged by the remarkable success of the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) over the past four years, Oxford University Press is glad to announce the 1st Islamabad Literature Festival – ILF which will be held on April 30th to May 1st, 2013.” This announcement was made by Ameena Saiyid OBE, Managing Director, Oxford University Press […]
LAHORE: The hope of revival of the country’s most important and once vibrant cultural festival — Basant — in Lahore have been rekindled after Punjab’s caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi sought an action plan from the quarters concerned in this regard. Earlier, in last November, the city district government had initiated an extensive exercise, holding […]
PESHAWAR – Caretaker Minister for Culture Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mussarat Qadeem has said that efforts were under way to finalize cultural policy of the province and if needed an ordinance could also be promulgated in this regard as culture is the very identity of a nation. However, she said that unfortunately, the culture has been disfigured […]
Maleeha Hamid Siddiqui KARACHI: The adage that behind every successful man is a woman, held true on Saturday evening at the IVS Gallery where photographer Arif Mahmood launched a collection of visuals titled ‘Philosophy’, the first of a quartet series. Acknowledging his wife Aesha, Mahmood said it was she who had given him the idea […]
KARACHI: As part of the National Academy of Performing Arts second annual arts festival, the second presentation of bandashein composed in afternoon ragas entertained a small number of discerning music lovers on Sunday. It has to be kept in mind that the singers who performed are Napa students, therefore, the very fact that they even […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI, March 31: Translating a work of art is a thankless job. As the cliché goes, if the translation is not faithful to the original version it loses its contextual perspective; if it is not beautiful like the original text it mars its linguistic charm. This was felt while watching an Urdu translation […]
By Our Correspondent KARACHI: The work of nine miniature artists, including Farina Alam, Mizna Zulfiqar and Sophia Mairaj, has been put up at an exhibition, ‘Way back home’, which opened at Unicorn Gallery on March 29. The curator, Soraya Sikandar explained that the artists had taken between three to eight months to put the paintings […]
Imtiaz Ali Karachi: The Sindh government appears unhappy over the recent decision to give control of the National Museum of Pakistan and the Central Archaeological Library in Karachi to the federal government as its officials believed that such a move is not only unconstitutional, but also goes against the devolution process, officials said. “The centre […]
REGARDED as the pioneer of modern Punjabi poetry and literature, Amrita Pritam got immediate fame when she wrote the poignant poem ‘Ajj Aakhan Waris Shah Nuu’. In this poem she had expressed her anguish on the massacre of about one million people in Punjab in communal violence following the partition of British India in 1947. […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Call it fusion, experimentation or innovation, the fact of the matter is: it was a memorable evening of music. A group known as Berlin to Lahore gave an impressive performance at a concert organised by the Goethe Institut Karachi and Tezheeb Foundation at a hotel on Tuesday. The band was formed last […]
Rauf Parekh The manipulation of media and its ever-increasing influence on society has been a subject of many research studies. However, the scholarship in the Urdu language has remained limited to literary, historical and religious studies and areas such as media studies got very little attention of it. That is why a book in Urdu […]
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage) and Ministry of National Heritage and Integration celebrated Pakistan Day with a great fervour and festivity here at Shakaparian. In this regard, a special programme was organised at the Pakistan Monument Museum, where a group of students of local school sang national songs along with […]
By Saleha Aziz The literal definition of drama is staging the interplay of fictional characters with thematic relevance. Taking the definition a step further, we can say that drama is also a platform provider that mirrors the society we reside in and the issues and ideas that suffuse through it. An expanse of wooden tiles […]
Khalid Ahmed will be remembered for his expression that reflected his extreme proclivity to the classical strain in our poetry By Sarwat Ali Khalid Ahmed who died last week was a much better poet than he was ever given credit for. There was a certain maturity in his poetical expression that only reflected his extreme […]
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