Posts Tagged ‘ history ’

A Visit to the Fakir Khana

Feb 2016

Visiting one of the world's oldest private museums in Lahore, a writer re-discovers her home. Issue 10
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Mother Makli: A Living Heritage

I went to Makli to look at ruins, but soon realized that the architecture was merely a backdrop to the lives of countless devotees, mystics and ordinary people. Issue 10: Borders and Boundaries
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Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space

Dec 2015

A curator reflects on Partition, and the role of visual culture in showing the unsayable, giving voice to the unthinkable, and shaping images out of the forgotten. Issue 10: Borders/Boundaries
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A Critique of Language Snobs: Urdu and the Politics of Identity

A history of the extraordinary–and ludicrous–political battles for an authentic Urdu.
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