Impressions
From the Blog safdarsikandar Impressions, if you remember are the collections of passages from books and papers that I have read over time. These passages are such that they leave a mark and make up a significant contribution to the impression a book ultimately has, like a quality of a person which you like more than all other qualities. More such impressions can be read here and here. [image: 15676027_354518781590523_4879762495661138323_o] *From Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk* To see the city in black and white is to see it through the tarnish of history: the patina of what is old and faded and no longer matters to the rest of the world. Even the greatest Ottoman architecture has a humble simplicity that suggests an end-of-empire gloom, a pained submission to the diminishing European gaze and to an ancient povepakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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