August 2015 Speaking in Script
Broken Integrity – Khat-e Mahi, Khat-e Paikan, and Khat-e Munfarid: Design Experiments in Non-cursive Fonts for Urdu, Persian and Arabic Scripts
history of Nastaliq and its inventor, the fourteenth century calligrapher Mir Ali Tabrizi, I realized …
Politics of Language, Colonisation, and Visuality
THE COMMAND OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF COMMAND Johannes Fabian, in Language and Colonial …
Art and Text: A Cursory Overview
In contrast to the Enlightenment, during which ideas were coalescing and crystallizing into relative clarity …
Scripts on the Wall
The walls of the city bear scripts, the words meaningless, meaningful, words erased, written over, …
Mohammad Ali Talpur: Line, Language, Lacunas
by Dua Abbas Rizvi In plays by Harold Pinter, the pause is where a lot …
In Conversation with Muhammad Zeeshan
by Shanzay Subzwari Shanzay Subzwari: Hi Zeeshan, hope you’re well. You recently returned from your …
Reimagining the Past
The recent exhibition at Koel Gallery offers a snippet of the interesting concerns that Karachi’s …
Skyline at Elgiz Museum
Istanbul contains a fascinating blend of secular and religious elements. It is a modern city …
Body and Body in the Community
An atom, as Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary states, is the smallest particle of an element …
Roadside Walls as Canvases and Blackboards
Many public walls in Karachi are covered in hate graffiti against ethnic groups, wall chalking …
Spaces: Urban, Sacred, Human
‘Jaali’ takes the viewer on a journey of his own position as a spectator in the …
