"Beyond the Ideas of Rightness or Wrongness": Ambreen Butt
From the Blog mahakamal[image: Image] Salman Taseer and Mumtaz Qadri (Credit: Ambreen Butt) *"Beyond the Ideas of Rightness or Wrongness": Ambreen Butt* By Maha Kamal A Pakistani artist with long, jet black hair works carefully in a suburban studio in Lexington, Massachusetts. Shades of ochre and maroon seem to come alive on one wall. On closer inspection, the colors are revealed to be a body of ants, representative of mankind. On the floor below, there are little toes and fingers that are made from resin and dyed to different shades of red, crimson and scarlet. "I was on the phone with a friend of mine visiting Lahore, and she narrowly escaped a bomb in a bazaar," Butt says. "I remember thinking how we can never picture our own death. Yet it is so real at the same time. We rely heavily on the news,pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
: Stuffed Cabbage Rolls:Sarmale
From the Blog sarahinsouthkorea Stuffed cabbage rolls have a long history and many countries have them in their cuisine with a different name. Turks and Armenians name them *"Dolma". * Russians call them *"lenivye golubtsy"* (lazy cabbage rolls). Poles call them *"Gołąbki"* meaning 'little pigeons' while Czechs and Slovaks refer to them as *"Holubky".* They are known as *"Sarma" t*o Serbs, Croatians and Bulgarians and *"Sarmale"* to Romanians. Swedes and Danes call them *"Kåldolmar" *while in Finland they are known as *"kaalikääryle"*. Whatever their name, stuffed cabbage have a filling of rice (cooked or uncooked), meat and sausage, and a variety of spices. They are either baked, steamed or boiled. In India we deep fry them with a vege-filling. Since meat is used in Sarmale, I chose chicken and turkey sausagpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Pakistanis Return Home
From the Blog pakteahouse By Usman Ahmed: *The Statistician* Leading statistics have shown a startling rise in Pakistani migrants returning home. The most recent report, conducted by the Go Back To Your Own Blasted Country Alliance, estimated that at least one million migrants had returned to their country of origin.** Experts believe that these changing patterns stem not from global recession, but because more and more Pakistanis are failing to adjust to life abroad. Maghfoor Jatoi went to the Netherlands in 2008 to 'send lots of EURO's back to my parents'. Now, however, he has decided to make his permanent home back in Pakistan. 'Even though I was earning enough money for me and my family', says Jatoi, 'my employers expected me to come on time and actually do some work. There was also only one teapakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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