Interpreting Alexander
From the Blog odysseuslahori I have recently finished Alexander the Great: a life in legend by Richard Stoneman. Published in 2008, this is the more scholarly and substantive version of a book of the same name by Stoneman several years ago. Until this reading, I could only poke fun at the way the Muslims of the subcontinent have posthumously converted Alexander to Islam. But now I know otherwise. In 2001, making my PTV documentary “Sindhia mein Sikander”, I and the rest of the crew were in Taxila, where an elderly local ‘historian’ came around to check us out. Satisfied with our credentials, he lauded us. To me, he very solicitously said that Allah was sure to be pleased with my endeavour to glorify Islam and grant me a place in heaven. Taken aback, I said this was a purely secular documentary with no relpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Origami Workshop
From the Blog lahoreschoolofeconomics Lahore School Society of Arts organized an Origami Workshop on May 14, 2014 in Faculty Lounge. More than 25 members participated including both students and some faculty members. Live streaming was done through Skype, through which a Chinese instructor all the way from China taught the art of folding papers, without using any scissors or glue to make different paper sculptures and decorative things e.g animals, birds, flowers and more. Participants were also given a lecture on the history of Origami and its origin. pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
The Shining
From the Blog mehmalNarendra Modi won the Indian elections with a landslide victory. It was certainly quite a disappointment for many around the world to see a man accused of being complicit in a communal pogrom all set to become prime minister of the world’s largest democracy. Some Pakistanis tweeted critically about Modi’s win but were told to mind their own business and look at the mess Pakistan is in. When Sherry Rehman and some other Pakistanis raised a question about the number of Muslim MPs in the newly elected Lok Sabha, they received flak for it. A lot of Indian Muslims felt offended that Pakistanis were showing ‘concern’ about them while many others ‘reminded’ Pakistanis of the treatment meted out to the minorities in our country. Those tweets were not condescending but were in fact comipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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