Familiar, with exotic highlights
Posted on Dec 5th, 2010 in Book Reviews
A galaxy of good Pakistani writers comes together in Granta 112: Pakistan. We have Nadeem Aslam, Uzma Aslam Khan, Intizar Hussain, Mohammed Hanif , Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie, and many others. An issue of “The Magazine of New Writing,” worth reading and discussing with friends.
Tracing Rahi’s journey
Posted on Dec 4th, 2010 in Profiles
It has been a long journey for Chandigarh-based realistic artist Rahi Mohinder Singh. RM started by drawing on a slate. Today his works hang in Parliament, writes Roopinder Singh He calls himself a rahi or a traveller, and his journey into the world of art took him to Andretta, where he was inspired by the legendary artist Sobha Singh. It …