Archive for November, 2006
About the author: Dr. Hassan Azad is a mathematician by profession and a senior student of sitar-nawaz Ustad Mohammad Shareef Khan. He is also a founding director of the Rauf Ansari Foundation. Learn More »
What is the use of it after all? Where is it used in real life? These questions have become a refrain […]
Posted in Journal | Sunday, November 26th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Taxila, 17 November 2006 - Saadullah Bashir
These photographs are from a cloudy afternoon visit to Taxila on 17 November 2006. Saad and I had been planning to go there since the past few months but kept delaying it owing to serious preoccupations such as a small measure of habitual sluggishness, and a great deal of […]
Posted in Journal | Friday, November 24th, 2006 | 5 Comments »
These photograhps were taken on a single day in a monsoon afternoon this year. Rain had subsided and there was work to do in the overly busy city center. In retrospect, it is strange to see such tranquility in the snapshots which were environmentally overwhelmed with a great deal […]
Posted in Journal | Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 | Read More »
Here are a few photographs of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore from the rooftop of Cuckoo’s Cafe. I had never imagined looking at it like this before. If the lighting leaves something to be desired, at least, it suggests a nicer way of illuminating such structures at night in the absence […]
Posted in Journal | Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The picture of the cat and kitten was captured outside a small Hindu temple in Saddar Bazaar, Rawalpindi. The necklace she wore and the comfort with which she treaded the threshold of her familiar domain made it clear that she was being looked after by the pandit’s family.
Some active creatures in a lazy afternoon at […]
Posted in Journal | Monday, November 20th, 2006 | Read More »
I was telling a friend the other day how a rather plainly built single room dwelling with a small veranda could be made both aesthetically pleasing and very livable. I told him how I would never have a simple brickface on the outside plastered. The windows would have square panes and be painted ivory (#FFFFF0 […]
Posted in Journal | Friday, November 10th, 2006 | Read More »
Toward the end of his life, Freud was asked by the BBC to provide a brief statement about his decades-long career in psychoanalysis… here, in English, he offers a succinct overview… The “Freud Conflict and Culture” web site said this:
“On December 7, 1938, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) came to Freud’s Maresfield Gardens home in […]
Posted in Journal | Thursday, November 9th, 2006 | Read More »
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Posted in Journal | Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Read More »
Mission East is a Danish international relief and development organisation, working in Eastern Europe and Asia. Our aim is to deliver relief aid, to create and support long-term development projects and to empower local aid organisations to carry on the work independently. Making no racial, religious or political distinction between those in need, we aim […]
Posted in Journal | Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 | Read More »