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	<title>The News International - <![CDATA[Art &amp; Culture]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[A language by any name]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1357901-a-language-by-any-name]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:40:30 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I Am And I Am Not .          I        t was uncanny to spot two women completely concealed in black burqas and hijabs, except for the narrow strips of fabric through which two pairs of eyes were scrutinising a small painting of an Afghan burqa, which replaced and/ or covered a female figure in its...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The grace of words]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:37:49 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        t was pure joy listening to Dr Arifa Syeda, who passed away last week, hold forth on anything, especially on questions of culture, history and language. She had an almost musical command over the spoken word, the kind of eloquence that drew listeners in, not through flamboyance or...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reclaiming refusal]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:46:47 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I Thought I&rsquo;d Escape My Fate  by Walid Raad.          L        ike a popular product, censorship comes in many shapes, wrappings and seasons. Some impose it in the name of religion; others prefer to label it as ethics. A few enforce it through ethnicity, many through so-called standards....]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[From salons to Iqbal]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:41:40 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[P        oetry in South Asia has rarely been confined to the page. Long before printed books or recorded cassettes, verse lived and moved through sound; spoken, sung and memorised. Most poets reached the common people not through books, but through the human voice. Their words were recited in...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lost lives of a painter]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1354860-lost-lives-of-a-painter]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:27:27 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[&lsquo;Woman Spinning &rsquo;, 1954.          W        hether Esther Rahim, Esmet Rahim, or simply E Rahim, the multiple personae of this painter, long lost in the labyrinthine narratives of Pakistani art, rekindle memories of a time when this country was a cosmopolitan place. Its backward drift...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who owns the Taj Mahal?]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1354858-who-owns-the-taj-mahal]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:23:40 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        he recently released quasi-documentary Taj Mahal is the latest in a series of cultural attempts to present a purist vision of India, one that draws ever sharper lines between &ldquo;us&rdquo; and &ldquo;them.&rdquo; Once celebrated as the ultimate symbol of love, the Taj is now...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A world beyond words]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1353541-a-world-beyond-words]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:20:49 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Being Visible.          F        or a change, the artist&rsquo;s statement by Sara Riaz Khan clearly communicates the painter&rsquo;s ideas, reflections and processes. It stands out for its simplicity, all the more because reading one artist&rsquo;s statement after another today feels like playing...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Lahore that was]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1353540-the-lahore-that-was]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:19:24 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        he Diwali celebrations held at the Governor&rsquo;s House in Karachi this year were more than a festival of lamps. For many, they symbolised something deeper, a quiet acknowledgement that Pakistan&rsquo;s Hindu citizens are not outsiders, but part of the same fabric. It was a small...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[From Mirza to Mirza]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1351703-from-mirza-to-mirza]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:00:05 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Beyond, 2004.          O        n October 11, the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, paid a long-due tribute to Mussarat Mirza. Although the Fine Arts Committee of the Council described her as a &ldquo;renowned artist,&rdquo; it is difficult to encapsulate the quiet and self-contained maker of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The voice that carried a nation]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1351702-the-voice-that-carried-a-nation]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:58:21 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[W        hen Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in 1997, at just 48, it felt as if an entire continent had fallen silent for a moment. His was not merely a voice but a force of nature, a sound that seemed to stretch across centuries and continents, carrying with it the devotional intensity of the Sufi...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A life in lines]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1350005-a-life-in-lines]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:02:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[B        oth our palms are filled with lines of various kind, sharp and clear, light and deep, small, repeated and crossed. To an ordinary eye, they appear as an incomprehensible web. To a palmist they form a code: a pattern to be read, analysed and interpreted to reveal personality, trace the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Karachi's quiet cultural revival]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1349999-karachis-quiet-cultural-revival]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:55:26 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[World Cultural Festival, 2024. ---- Image by Reuters          T        he World Culture Festival, organised by the Karachi Arts Council and spread across nearly two months, is fast becoming a defining feature of Pakistan&rsquo;s cultural landscape. What began as an ambitious experiment has,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Viewers as curators]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1348308-viewers-as-curators]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:11:37 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Mugshots by Ayaz Jokhiyo.          C        urators are sprouting like weeds in Pakistan&rsquo;s art world. A gallery manager, a recent graduate, a mid-career practitioner, an art teacher, an eager writer &ndash; even an occasional collector &ndash; can suddenly transform into a curator. Most of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Swords and sarangis]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1348305-swords-and-sarangis]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:07:44 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        he first of October is marked as Music Day in many parts of the world; another day, June 21, is also observed, with a slightly different emphasis &mdash; a celebration of music&rsquo;s many forms and its capacity to bring disparate traditions into conversational harmony. Yet if music can...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Post-colonial  miniature painting]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1346545-post-colonial-miniature-painting]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:29:48 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Untitled by Farhat Ali.          K        arl Marx&rsquo;s famous quip that history repeats itself, &ldquo;the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce,&rdquo; fits the so-called revival of miniature painting in Pakistan. The process started in the early 1980s at the National College of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The lost music of the rababis]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1346542-the-lost-music-of-the-rababis]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:27:04 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        his year, Kartarpur saw very few yatrees owing to the Indo-Pak military standoff.Bhai Mardana, a lifelong companion of Guru Nanak, played the rabab and is credited with composing the shabads and kirtans of Nanak, hymns still sung in gurdwaras today. His descendants, known as the rababis,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Being and other objects]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1344869-being-and-other-objects]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:30:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Encyclopedia series: the garden.          A        rt exhibitions and fashion shows are not entirely dissimilar, though some differences exist. Both serve as spaces of negotiation between a creative product and a prospective - often prosperous - client.Artworks in a gallery, whether hung on a...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The voice that shaped Pakistani cinema]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1344868-the-voice-that-shaped-pakistani-cinema]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:29:07 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        he most surprising aspect of Noor Jehan&rsquo;s life was her decision to migrate to Pakistan at the time of Partition.It was surprising because she was then at the height of her career as a playback singer. She was unmatched in talent and virtuosity, and since films relied heavily on...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three cheers for Ayaz Jokhio]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1343187-three-cheers-for-ayaz-jokhio]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:13:09 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A specially designed chair connected to 9 puppets with help of multiple pulleys          O        n my way to Ayaz Jokhio&rsquo;s exhibition, Three Chairs, at the Barracks Art Museum in Lahore, it was impossible to shake off the ghost of another work: One and Three Chairs, created 60 years ago by...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Limits of cultural protest]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1343177-limits-of-cultural-protest]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:40:29 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Y        et another film, a documentary this time, has won an award at the Venice Film Festival.Many films, some quasi-documentary and others entirely so, have been given the recognition they deserve, particularly because they are based directly on the tragic events of the past two years. These...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Letters from a lost language]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1341522-letters-from-a-lost-language]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:20:01 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[What the Eye Couldn&rsquo;t Say.          R        odrigo Garc&iacute;a, in his short book A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son&rsquo;s Memoirs, recalls the last days of Gabriel Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez:&ldquo;My father was fully aware of his mind slipping away. He would say, &lsquo;I work...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[From lifelines to forgotten streams]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1341521-from-lifelines-to-forgotten-streams]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:18:18 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A        s the Punjab rivers go on a rampage, one can easily imagine the landscape there must have been before the canal colonisation of the area transformed the entire ecosystem. Then, as a result of the partition of the Punjab and the division of waters, three eastern rivers were handed over to...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[An artist's mind]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1339959-an-artists-mind]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:36:53 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Power Lion.          I        n Authors Space of No Physical Action is the title of Basir Mahmood&rsquo;s 00:09:00 video, part of his recently concluded solo exhibition In-Between Spaces of Energy and Consumption. Mahmood, an alumnus of the School of Visual Art and Design, BNU, and recipient of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Silenced]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1339957-silenced]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:34:29 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[M        ore journalists have been killed in Gaza in recent days, taking the number of deaths to a new level. The previous record, too, was set during the current conflict. A record is now being set every few weeks. Each new figure should hold a mirror to the world&rsquo;s conscience, but it...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Material culture]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1337821-material-culture]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:27:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[The Sofa for the Years.According to a Saudi proverb, to a hungry man, the sun is a flatbread. The same entities are perceived differently by different individuals, groups and societies. Take, for example, a work of art. To its maker, it is the expression of their ideas, a document of their...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Recognition or ritual?]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1337820-recognition-or-ritual]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:24:14 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[It is rare for announcements of national awards in Pakistan to be met with universal acclaim. The same sentiment has been observed this Independence Day.Reactions range from derision to a sense of dismissiveness, often rooted in a perceived bias underlying the selection process. As with many such...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Art forms elsewhere]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1336068-art-forms-elsewhere]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:32:50 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Sylvat Aziz.          C        reative individuals &ndash; including artists, writers, musicians and performers &ndash; are, by and large, an unhappy bunch: disgruntled with their environment, dissatisfied with the currents of their times, disapproving of their contemporaries&rsquo; practices and...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fading melodies]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:13:21 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[N        ational days are usually occasions for song-and-dance programmes to be staged without apology.This Independence Day was marked in the shadow of a four-day skirmish with India about two and a half months ago. Since the withdrawal of the colonial world order, independence days have come to...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Monuments of moments]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:47:33 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Tea Kettle.          T        he idea of a promised land &ndash; whether on earth or in heaven &ndash; has captivated communities across continents and throughout history. Individuals, groups and societies have either sought to forge new settlements rooted in ethnicity, religion or sect, or...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A moment of reckoning]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:40:58 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        t remains to be seen what the Edinburgh Festival offers this year. It is expected to welcome and extend its platform to avant-garde expressions in the arts from around the world.As if the main festival were not already experimental enough, a set of performances began to take place on the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The humanity of dolls]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:22:56 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Cut - Throat Colonics VIII.          B        efore boarding an aeroplane, you know the pilot is a man and that snacks will be served by female flight attendants. Similarly, when visiting a hospital, you expect your medical examination to be conducted by a male doctor, accompanied by female...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Collateral damage?]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:21:06 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        n a recent terrorist attack in Balochistan, several security personnel were killed. It later emerged that among the passengers on the same bus were qawwals, some of whom were injured in the blast. Two of them, Ahmed Sabri and Raza Sabri, succumbed to their injuries and died.Many have...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The art of stillness]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1330996-the-art-of-stillness]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:42:22 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[P        ainters and the public often believe that artistic skill, precision and perfection lie in rendering the likeness of a face, a human body, a set of static objects or a specific terrain. Filling flat colours into shapes, lines, circles, triangles or other forms is seen as comparatively...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Raised on the airwaves]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:40:17 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Y        asmin Tahir, who passed away last week, was a consummate professional. She dedicated the better part of her life to broadcasting, where she was part of numerous programmes, including Saat Rung.She was among the few women who ventured into show business during the 1950s and early 1960s, a...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mother and other tongues]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:04:06 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A        t the moment of our birth, we are bodily tied to our mothers. Likewise, we grow up connected to our mother tongue: a system of sounds we mumble, imitate and gradually develop by recognising words and the meanings associated with those. These allow us to communicate with our parents,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[When the monsoon misses the music]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:02:35 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[W        ith the onset of summer, people in cities often pray for rain to relieve the severity of the heat. In rural areas, however, those connected to traditional agricultural cycles hope for rainfall according to the solar calendar, which governs the timings for sowing and harvesting. A certain...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memories of Milan]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:25:52 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[&lsquo;The House and the Old Man, the Sea&rsquo; by Panos Aprahamian with Vicken Avakian.          T        he best exhibitions are not only situated in physical spaces, walls, buildings, warehouses, heritage sites, public parks or open areas, but also remain lodged in our minds. In this age of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The voice that refused to fade]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:23:09 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A        lam Lohar was fortunate in that his musical legacy was carried forward by his sons.Until the early Twentieth Century, it was common for the male offspring of vocalists and musicians to continue the family tradition. This was expected, as professions were often passed down along...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The weight of  a colour]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:59:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Smoke drawing by Mohammad Ali Talpur.          I         recollect my first encounter with Ad Reinhardt&rsquo;s Abstract Painting No 5 at the Tate Gallery, London. From a distance, I thought it was a canvas filled with nothing but black pigment, but on getting closer, I realised that the American...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Freedom apparently has limits when it comes to Palestine]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:55:22 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Palestinian flags fly high during set by Irish rap
group Kneecap at Glastonbury festival          Y        ou can do everything at Glastonbury, except mention Palestine.At Glastonbury&rsquo;s sprawling venue, with hundreds of thousands of mostly young people gathered under the greenwood tree, the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The enigma of arrival]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1323461-the-enigma-of-arrival]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:43:24 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        here is no doubt that Mughees Riaz is a brilliant painter; but is he an intelligent artist too? His recently concluded solo exhibition offers some clues, perhaps even answers.The exhibition, titled Dil Durya: 25 Years of Creative Excellence, was held from May 25 to June 12 at the Ejaz Art...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The craft of patriotism]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1323459-the-craft-of-patriotism]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:41:36 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        t is not surprising that cultural events centred around milli naghmas are being held across the country, whether as competitions or simply as platforms to express the sentiments the moment demands.In an atmosphere where violence, in one form or another, dominates the public discourse,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Magic of realism in Arpita Singh]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:39:52 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[R        eality in the hands of Arpita Singh is not a solid, static or stale subject. She selects segments of reality, like a painter picks pigments of paint, to create a version that appears unseen but not unbelievable. In that respect, her art,  currently on display at the Serpentine North...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[From 'low culture' to longing]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:36:33 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[D        espite all the fervour, only two films appear to have been released on Eid-ul-Azha this year.Over the last two decades, numerous attempts have been made to revive and revitalise the country&rsquo;s cinema industry. Successive governments of varying political orientations have introduced...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[War and  turpentine]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:25:14 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[W        ar leaves its trail in blood and smoke. Paintings, however, are generally made with turpentine. If war is associated with the death of people and animals, the destruction of homes and the burning of fields, painting is an act of preservation &ndash; whether of a person, a harvest or the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will AI kill the sound of music?]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:22:04 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[G        iven the sudden and widespread dominance of artificial intelligence, one wonders what the shape of music will be in the future.Technology plays an all-pervasive role now in every aspect of life &ndash; including the arts. Looking back, it is easy to trace the changes technology brought to...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memory as a metaphor for resistance]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:51:24 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[P        eople of similar professions, age groups and families often compare their ability to recall past events, minor details or distant faces. It is a common exercise in measuring the capacity of the hard drives of their brains. But more than a test of the power of an organ or muscle, memory is...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cinema behind bars]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:48:53 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        t has been widely acknowledged that Jafar Panahi&rsquo;s Palme d&rsquo;Or award at the Cannes Film Festival was well deserved.Although the award was for his latest film &ndash; It Was Just an Accident &ndash; it also served as a tribute to his entire career &ndash; a substantial body of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Many norths in different souths]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[I        nhabitants of the globe have long used fixed signs to determine direction, like the four points on a compass. But in the Twenty-first Century, these demarcations also include political divides, economic disparities and power imbalances. One such boundary today is the division between the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Voices at the frontline]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 May 2025 16:59:30 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A        fter the four-day skirmish with India, the media is brimming with patriotic music numbers, leading with Aey Rahe Haq Kay Shaheedo, Wafa Ki Tasweero.Many remakes and edited versions of the song have been aired across mainstream, streaming and social media platforms. All of it seems to have...]]>
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