Will Afghan cultural heritage survive under Taliban rule? - Newspaper
LAHORE: Uzbek musicologist and cultural anthropologist Razia Sultanova said that before the Taliban, there were ...
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LAHORE: Uzbek musicologist and cultural anthropologist Razia Sultanova said that before the Taliban, there were ...
Our society has always known the power of stories, and employed them in various roles from education, to propaganda,...
“MUQABILA, aur woh bhi shaan-o-shaukat ka”(competition — that too of ostentation). “Zehniyat is tarah nahin badalti jab tak mahaul nahin badalta”(the mindset does not change until the environment changes). “Tumharay paas bangla nahin, nokar nahin, par tum zaat kay kitnay achchay ho. Sharif ho”(You do not have a house, or a servant. Yet how decent you are by temperament. How good you are.) These are snatches of conversation from Hajra Masroor’s short story Standard. Through its protagonist, Begum Riaz, the author astutely comments on Pakistan’s society and its culture of oste...