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Mon, 7 Jan 2008 | By damonlk | Views [342]
Bhutto died on Thursday afternoon. Once confirmed word
spread fast from mouth to mouth to mobile phone. What began as a certain
posture between two men talking in a doorway spread quickly up and down the
street.
With regrettable, ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 | By miriamvkenter | Views [262]
Young boys and men throw their simple paper and bamboo kites high above their heads to catch a gust of wind. The winning gust takes their kite on a one kilometer journey into the sky. It is a challenge getting it to catch onto that one breath of ... Read more >
Tags: People
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [324]
Just before Pakistan proper ends, and the interzone of autonomous tribal regions begin, some 40km from the Afghan border, are a series of markets. As with markets everywhere they sell everything, and the first hundred metres are dominated by ... Read more >
Tags: Markets
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | By miriamvkenter | Views [241]
The children don't stop playing, they take advantage of the empty streets. Games of cricket are set up in every other empty alley and street. The sounds of laughter, cheers, makeshift cricket bats whacking makeshift balls echo off the closed facades.... Read more >
Tags: People
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [512] | Comments [2]
Inside Bhatti Gate in the walled city, and just before the
remains of the red light district, is the Fakir Khana
Museum. Housed in a
traditional three story house, and built on the collection of gifts and
tributes paid to an advisor of Maharajah ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 | By miriamvkenter | Views [244]
A wrong way walk down the ganda-nella highway (the open-sewer highway) was frustrating and confusing mostly for me - but also for the hundreds of rickshaw, car and truck drivers, and especially the police roaming the side of the busy, stinky road. ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [408] | Comments [1]
Just past the Mayo Hospital is Landa bazaar. Or more precisely a Landa bazaar, as there is another further east running between Lahore Railway Station and the Delhi Gate of the old town. Both specialise in second hand clothes, much of it imported, ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Tue, 4 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [687]
Zoos can be unhappy places. Even at home, where money and
rendered concrete conspire to trick the viewer, though rarely the animals, into
believing the cage to be some semblance of native habitat.
This is true in part of Lahore Zoo;... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 | By damonlk | Views [385]
In November the Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop holds its annual performing arts festival, with dancers, musicians, puppeteers, theatre troupes and comedians from Pakistan, the subcontinent and around the world. We went last night to see the Czech group ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 | By damonlk | Views [325] | Comments [1]
The week has been fairly occupied with preparations for the
show next Monday at Alhamra Art Gallery. It is my first in Pakistan, and first
solo abroad. The etchings are from the last four years and are inspired by
people and places seen on my ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 | By damonlk | Views [649]
Mehr goes to sitar lessons twice a week. She has been
playing for six months on an ivory inlaid instrument that was once a gift from
her father to her mother. The body, bulbous and chocolate brown, used to be a
pumpkin.
Tonight there ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Mon, 5 Nov 2007 | By damonlk | Views [437] | Comments [1]
The Lahore Museum, the 'Wonder House', was full on Saturday. They tell me it's the time to visit, now that the sauna heat of summer has passed but before winter sets in. I continue to wonder how cold that season will be - the locals speak of it with ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [474]
We took the students drawing at Lahore Fort. This rambling array of palaces, courtyards, bath houses and mosques set in 42 acres of gardens seemed ideal for teaching perspective, and getting students out of the sterility of the basement drawing ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [367] | Comments [1]
We spent the weekend in the former princely state of Bahawalpur. Prior to Partition the British ruled much of the subcontinent through the agency of local rulers bearing varying degrees of autonomy, though never in the critical areas of foreign affairs ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [329]
This weekend was Eid, the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. And so 30 odd days of fasting, prayers, and early morning breakfasts ended for 2007 and Lahore, and its people, will slowly return to normal. In the meantime ... Read more >
Tags: markets
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