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Sindh in visual culture discussed

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KARACHI: French scholar Julien Levesque delivered a short lecture on the representation of Sindh in visual culture during the past four to five decades at the Alliance Francaise Karachi on Thursday evening. Mr Levesque said he’d be discussing the cultural identity marks – ajrak, Sindhi topi, Moenjodaro stupas – that had been associated with Sindhi […]


Plans afoot to raise Bhit Shah to global cultural city: minister

HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Culture Sassui Palijo has said that her ministry is planning to gradually convert Bhit Shah into an international cultural city. Plans to establish the Institute of Research and Music Academy and an art gallery depicting seven ‘surs’ (themes) of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s poetry in the historical town were steps in […]


Aikta Day celebrated all over Sindh

SUKKUR: The Aikta Day was observed on Sunday in all the large and small cities of Sindh, including Sukkur, Khairpur, Shikarpur, Naushehro Feroze, Moro, Larkana, Dadu and Ghotki. Political activists of the nationalist parties, civil society, journalists, Green Rotary Club, Khairpur, youths, children and girls wore colourful dresses, Sindhi caps and Ajraks and danced in […]