2006 February - 3

Sitar maestro Ustad Rais Khan and his son Farhan presented a duet and left the audience spellbound by their skillful rendition of various ‘ragas’.Ustad Rais Khan delineated the intricacies of Raga Yamini, which was much appreciated. Later, he played the tune ‘Pyar hai apse, zindagi pyar hai’. Ustad Rais Khan also presented the famous Urdu [...]

The ongoing World Book Fair here boasts of over 2,300 stalls with titles ranging from children’s literature to scientific texts. There are around 10 publishers from Pakistan participating in this fair. He said the biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and English-Urdu dictionaries were much sought after. The Urdu edition of ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet [...]

The colour black plays an important role in Zen philosophy, since it is symbolic of both ‘nothingness’ and ‘everything’, making up an integral part of the majority of East Asian art. Tadayoshi Nakabayashi, the most eminent of Japanese printmakers, is renowned for creating movement through tonal variations of black. The large woodcuts of Chinese printmaker [...]

The rhythmic throb of Pakistani music and the savory scent of kabob, samosa and curry filled the air, while children scrambled to pick up downed kites and send them aloft again. Or else collect the pieces of torn paper and shattered bamboo. The breeze was light but the spirit was strong Sunday as hundreds of [...]