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After Helping Restore, Conserve Key Heritage, Kashmir Architect Going To MIT For Post-Doc


SRINAGAR: Hakim Samir Hamdani, Kashmir’s top architect who specialises in Muslim architecture will be doing his post-doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has received an acceptable offer for his plan from the world’s top rate institute under Agha Khan Programme.
Hakeem Samir Hamdani
Hamdani is the Design Director at the INTACH Kashmir chapter, a position he has held since 2010.
“Just got acceptance offer for Aga Khan Program Post-Doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT,” Hamdani broke the sweet news on Twitter at a time when the micro-blogging site was behaving like the virtual cemetery owing to the Covid-19 crisis. “Started my academic journey quite late, but then it’s been a journey working with artisans and craftsmen that has got me where I am, today, ....

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Kashmir's centuries-old papier-mâché tradition is badly injured but bravely limps on


A papiermâché craftsman at work in Srinagar
  | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD
Militancy, a flood, the pandemic Kashmir s ancient art of papier-mâché is at its lowest ebb now, but there may be a ray of hope for the future
Sometime in the 12th century, Omar Khayyam, the Persian poet and astronomer, wrote these lines about love and longing: “Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring / The winter garment of repentance fling: The bird of time has but a little way / To fly and Lo! the bird is on the wing.”
Khayyam could never have imagined that his words would be depicted, nearly a millennium later, in a far-off place called Kashmir, on four-foot-high, intricately designed, papier-mâché vases. His poems continue to inspire the masters of papier-mâché art, who live in the narrow bylanes of Srinagar’s Zadibal-Alamgari Bazaar. They have, for centuries, striven to bring to life the literary works of poets, Iranian kings and Mughal emperors, adding their f ....

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