PAKISTAN | Monday, 12 Nov 2007 | Views [1432]
Mehr goes to sitar lessons twice a week. She has been
playing for six months on an ivory inlaid instrument that was once a gift from
her father to her mother. The body, bulbous and chocolate brown, used to be a
pumpkin.
Tonight there ... Read more >
Tags: culture
PAKISTAN | Monday, 5 Nov 2007 | Views [1579] | Comments [1]
The Lahore Museum, the 'Wonder House', was full on Saturday. They tell me it's the time to visit, now that the sauna heat of summer has passed but before winter sets in. I continue to wonder how cold that season will be - the locals speak of it with ... Read more >
Tags: culture
PAKISTAN | Monday, 29 Oct 2007 | Views [2817] | Comments [1]
We took the students drawing at Lahore Fort. This rambling array of palaces, courtyards, bath houses and mosques set in 42 acres of gardens seemed ideal for teaching perspective, and getting students out of the sterility of the basement drawing ... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Views [980] | Comments [1]
We spent the weekend in the former princely state of Bahawalpur. Prior to Partition the British ruled much of the subcontinent through the agency of local rulers bearing varying degrees of autonomy, though never in the critical areas of foreign affairs ... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Monday, 15 Oct 2007 | Views [868]
This weekend was Eid, the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. And so 30 odd days of fasting, prayers, and early morning breakfasts ended for 2007 and Lahore, and its people, will slowly return to normal. In the meantime ... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Monday, 8 Oct 2007 | Views [2099] | Comments [2]
Pakistan held its Presidential elections on Saturday. While the results surprised few, Musharraf's ongoing constitutional ability to lead remains before the Supreme Court. It is not certain how much attention Musharraf will pay the lawyers - ... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Monday, 1 Oct 2007 | Views [865] | Comments [3]
The twin cities of Islamabad/ Rawalpindi sit about 300 km northwest of Lahore on the edge of both the NWFP [North West Frontier Province, a rag tag collection of government control and autonomous tribal areas] and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan’s ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
PAKISTAN | Monday, 24 Sep 2007 | Views [884]
Shakeel is fifteen years old. His father, Mr. Haneef, is the chowkidar [caretaker] at the hostel I stay in. In any case they live together in a small flat at the back of the complex with their mother, two brothers, Shan and Adeel, age 7 and ... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Monday, 17 Sep 2007 | Views [764]
Regrettably, for the animal involved that is, the principle ingredient of the brush used by miniature painters are hairs taken from the tail of a squirrel. Preferably a young one, but given the speed and agility of all such animals any caught squirrel ... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Monday, 10 Sep 2007 | Views [750] | Comments [3]
Classes have not begun, but the curriculum has been planned, as much as possible, and the 120 odd students met Saturday morning at orientation. Much of the time was given over to insisting that the students not smoke in class, and that medical ... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Monday, 3 Sep 2007 | Views [1105] | Comments [2]
And so ends the first week in Lahore. It’s coming to the end of summer, so the heat is slowly abating, or at least I am acclimatising after that sudden jump from Melbourne winter. Of course what remains – 30 degrees at 9am – is still enough ... Read more >
Tags: people
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Views [683]
In August this year I travel to Lahore to teach Printmaking and Drawing at Beaconhouse National University - Pakistan's first liberal arts university. This project has been generously supported by Professor Salima Hashmi, Dean, School of Visual ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
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