One dance a month: Celebrating a shared culture, choreographer-dancer Tehreema Mitha launches video channel
Mar 22, 2021
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“The subcontinent has a shared history dating back thousands of years. The good, the bad and the amazing, the whole of history belongs to all of us”, says choreographer and dancer Tehreema Mitha....
My grandfather’s tears while reading Manto laid the seeds for this story
Mar 07, 2021
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My grandfather’s family lived in Suri Mansion, a haveli in Rawalpindi near the Kalyan Das temple that my great -great -great- grandfather and his brothers built in the 1850s. Apparently the...
“Peace-ing it together”: Across the Line – a book or a movement to heal?
Mar 07, 2021
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A recent book launch encapsulated all my passions as the founder of the Children’s Literature Festival, which aims to create spaces of learning, feeling and healing in Pakistan and beyond. We want...
Ninth Indo-Pak Peace Calendar launch: Activists and academics call to “open visas”
Mar 01, 2021
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This year marked the first virtual launch of an annual calendar featuring children’s paintings themed on peace between India and Pakistan. With the coronavirus pandemic halting in-person...
India-Pak Relations: What the Kafkaesque Case of a Repatriated Cattle-Herder Tells Us
Feb 01, 2021
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That a poor man ends up spending years in jail due to bureaucratic delays points to a larger issue. But Ismail Sama’s repatriation also gives cause for some hope. The story of an Indian man...
A tale of two officers
Feb 01, 2021
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“Today is March 23rd, so you know what that means?” The immigration officer in Karachi looked at the Indian visa on my Pakistani passport. I didn’t know what he meant, really. It was much later...
When a Punjabi and a Bihari united to turn music into magic
Jan 17, 2021
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O.P. Nayyar – January 16, 1926–January 28, 2007 January is unofficially “O.P. Nayyar month”. Aman Ki Asha commemorates the great composer every year with a piece by his spiritual...
Two-day women-led Indo-Pak Peace Summit to be held this weekend
Jan 15, 2021
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A two-day women-led Indo-Pak Peace Summit kicks off this weekend to celebrate heritage, brainstorm solutions for peace in South Asia, and channel the energy of women and youth towards developing...
Aligarh alum hold condolence meeting for Indian, Pakistani communities of North America
Jan 08, 2021
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The year 2020 will be remembered for the toll taken by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like millions around the globe, expatriate Indian and Pakistani communities in the USA and Canada were also hit by the...
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