The Everyday and the Absurd
“Both Verkaaik and Ring look at ethnic violence from around the political lens, rather than directly through it.” Nabeeha Chaudhary looks at two academic texts on the subtleties of ethnic conflict in Pakistan.
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Recognising Diversity
“Acceptance is now being practiced beyond the student circle, [it]…has now been extended to another group — the transgender.” Shameen Arshad looks at an innovative program from an art school for transgender people in Lahore.
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Vegetarian Meat
“Evidently, getting to like vegetarian meat is a matter of acquired taste and it’s a dish probably not for the faint-hearted.” Chitralekha Basu looks into the origins of an oxymoron in Calcutta.
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Spotlight Artist: Nayha Jehangir Khan
“The uncertainty that comes with willingly choosing a non-linear and unconventional career path requires that you take responsibility for your passion.” Shameen Arshad interviews spotlight artist Nayha Jehangir Khan.
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Kingship versus Kinship: Part II
“Nizam is just as homeless and out of place in the American’s valley as Antigone is in Thebes when it is reduced to Creon’s state of exception.” Part two of Peter Krause’s essay analysing Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ and Joydeep Roy-Bhattachary’s ‘The Watch’.
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Caught Between Kentucky and Her Mind
““Who do you think took them?” I ask and lean in towards her. She assures me that theft played no role in it, because to say so would implicate Augustana, a Christian institution, in allowing sin to occur on its watch.” Inna Viktorovna makes a strange connection with a 98-year-old woman.
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A New Collection from Komail Aijazuddin
“Aijazuddin plays around with the composition and placement of these designs, manipulating them to make them more relevant today.” Shameen Arshad reviews Komail Aijazuddin’s latest work showcased in Islamabad.
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Brass Pounder
“He never smiles. This is true of all later photographs. With autobiographical writings, they suggest a serious, even brooding temperament.” Robert Boucheron’s short biography of his grandfather’s life as an early telegraph operator.
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The Mansion in Grapevine Canyon
“Walter was born in Cynthiana, Kentucky to George and Anna Scott. Pa George’s interests focused mainly on two enterprises: making moonshine and raising trotting horses. ” Wayne Sefton recounts the strange history of an abandoned mansion in the Mojave Desert.
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White Death Cocoon
“I couldn’t save him and I couldn’t care for him either. HIV took both options away from me.” Denzel Xavier Scott pieces together a memory that will stay with him forever.
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