Virtual Book Display: Culture of Pakistan

The Indian Subcontinent: romantic, remote and mysterious. From the plains of Pakistan to the foothills of the Himalaya, from Northern India and Rajasthan to Tamil Nadu in the south, this vast melting pot of diverse civilisations, religions, cultures and glorious landscapes has seen some of the greatest artistic golden ages on earth. Across three rich, detailed episodes, this series explores the story of the Indian Sub Continent through the treasures of three very different people, places and dynasties that have shaped modern India, and beyond: the Indus Valley civilisations, Tamil Nadu – land of the temples – and the Mughal Empire. With the magnificent, stirring landscapes of India and Pakistan as a dramatic backdrop, this series combines art, history and travelogue to give a compelling insight into a captivating part of our world. In this episode, Sona Datta visits the Harappa archaeological site to learn about a complex people that flourished from 2700 to 1700 B.C. Taxila ruins reveal how Alexander the Great influenced Buddhism and Lahore architecture illustrates the rise of Islam during the Mughal reign—establishing cultural norms that persist today.

This is a Pakistan the rest of the world never sees: colourful, musical and vibrant. Another Pakistan takes a different look at a country widely perceived as backward, dangerous and a hotbed for terrorism, driven by Islamic fundamentalism at odds with the modern age. British Pakistani businesswoman Nighat Awan follows a personal journey that shows how unlike this perception the country really is. She meets Pakistan’s number one rock star and one of its leading fashion designers. She tours a textiles factory making garments for well-known European brand names and doesn’t find any child labourers! She chats to a villager making beds, encounters a variety of children and students devoted to their country and tries her hand at golf. Pakistanis are very proud of their country and their religion. Islam has been highly misunderstood in recent years and in this film we are reminded that ‘Islam means peace’. This is a testament to the other side of Pakistan - a culture with much music, colour and humanity. Imran Khan, former cricketer also features.

This documentary is directed by Joan Salvat.

This 60-minute 'Sounds-and-Stills' show of Pakistani folk music is based on Nazir Jairazbhoy’s three-week fieldtrip to Pakistan in 1975, sponsored by The Smithsonian Institution in collaboration with Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk Heritage, Pakistan), and the resulting weeklong visit of Pakistani musicians to perform at the Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C. in 1976. The fieldtrip extended from high in the Hindu Kush mountains to the southern areas of Sindh, with recordings from all four provinces - NWFP (Peshawar), Punjab, Baluchistan, and Sindh - as well as Kafiristan (Birir Valley). All recordings were made in Pakistan in Sufi shrines, villages, and other contexts, or in Washington, D.C. Mystic songs, joyful instrumental renditions, wedding laments, and jubilant dance music convey a beautiful and variegated soundscape, especially appropriate to release at this time to counter the media images of Pakistan prevailing today.

Take a journey into Pakistan's land of Sindh and feel the spirit of its music and poetry, as Saif fights against its disappearance.

To mark the one year anniversary of the devastating Pakistan floods, this special documents CBC reporter George Stroumboulopoulos' experiences in Pakistan. This trip marked the beginning of his work as the first Canadian Ambassador Against Hunger with the UN's World Food Program. The program highlights the severe, ongoing effects of last year's monsoon rains and captures a portrait of post-flood life in Pakistan.

A Calling to Care is the inspiring story of 55 year-old Grace Stanley, a Canadian nurse who left her home and prestigious career behind to answer a calling halfway around the world in Karachi, Pakistan. Teaching nursing to local women in a strict Muslim culture that forbids them to even to touch men is a formidable task. However, Grace challenges her own values and belief systems to find common ground with her students, helping them to excel and feel respect for themselves in a culture that doesn't respect them. Whether it is getting her hands painted with henna, swimming fully-clothed in the ocean, or marching bravely with them on International Women's Day, Grace bonds with her students in a very special way, and ultimately discovers how the West can learn a lot more from the Third World than she ever thought.

Cultures can be better understood by a close-up look at their courting rituals. Through the eyes of a Western woman, who wed a Pakistani and has lived in the Punjab for decades, we gain extraordinary access to the private lives and thoughts of her young chef Nawaz and her maid, Mehnaz. The love affairs of the young men and women of Jaranwala - a village just a few hours out of Lahore - keeps entire families entertained with gossip and sexual intrigue.

In what we think of as a conservative society, the young cast of characters could be from a Western romantic sitcom. Mehnaz' boy friend has broken her heart and married the bride his parents chose for him. Nawaz, married to his childhood sweetheart, comforts her with chappattis and free advice. Soon she has eyes for a new young man from a lower caste. Her family throws her out of their home in disapproval. And so the plot thickens.

Punjabi Love Story - a superb documentary, is set against the current political unrest in Pakistan. It gives us a rare glimpse into the workings of another society, while reminding us that whatever our differences, in affairs of the heart we all speak the same language.

The devastations and damages caused by climate change are apparent across the globe, specifically in the South Asian region where vulnerabilities to climate change among residents are high and climate change adaptation and mitigation awareness are extremely low. Pakistan's low adaptive capacity due to high poverty rate, limited financial resources and shortage of physical resources, and continual extreme climatic events including varying temperature, continual flooding, melting glaciers, saturation of lakes, earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, avalanches, droughts, scarcity of water, pest diseases, human healthcare issues, and seasonal and lifestyle changes have persistently threatened the ecosystem, biodiversity, human communities, animal habitations, forests, lands, and oceans with a potential to cause further damages in the future.

The study was conducted at the Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan during the year 2014. For this study Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtumkhwa was selected. In mountainous rural areas of Pakistan, livelihoods are highly dependent on natural resources which in turn depend upon climatic conditions.

The article discusses popular Punjabi Theatre in Pakistan, noting subversive aspects of the theatre with regard to sexuality, gender identity, and the use of the Punjabi language instead of the officially-sanctioned Urdu language. Also mentioned are the preference of elites for English language theatre, the treatment of dance in Pakistani culture, and the work of commedienne and dancer Nargis.

The article discusses the status of working class Pakistani worker-poets in the 21st century, particularly addressing the social inequalities in Pakistani culture. It addresses the impact of Sufi Islam traditions on contemporary Pakistani poets, the work of worker-poets to bring attention to social problems in the country, and progressive literature.

The present study aimed at construction and validation of Life Regrets Scale for elderly people in Pakistan culture.

This study explores the bereavement process and continuing bond in Pakistani Muslims with the focus on how culture and religion influence these processes.

The present study explores the cultural meaning of the phenomenon dependency in children's personality as a consequence of parental attitude in Pakistani cultural context.

The present study investigated the relationship between personality traits, romantic attitude, and happiness in young adults.

Understanding motivations for high risk behaviors is an important yet neglected area in Pakistan. Although, most research on motives for risky behaviors has been done in western cultures but few studies determined its cultural diversity reflecting significant, cultural differences. To enhance the understanding of various motives for risk-taking in eastern culture, this study realized the need of a culturally valid and reliable measure to assess different motivations to engage in high risk behaviors for vulnerable population in Pakistan.

Paintings, textile-based installations and works on paper show how the idea of home can reflect in multiple ways.

Faiz Festival had the familiar ring to it – the lectures, talk shows, book launches, discussion rounds, remembering those who have left us and many cultural happenings on the sidelines. With the festival comes the relief that life is going back to normal.

The theological status of music only came under serious scrutiny after Muslims lost political power.

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar along with British House of Lords Member Daniel Hanan has announced erecting a statue of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in London on the 75th Independence Day of Pakistan.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Everything about Pakistani trucks is exuberant and over-the-top, from the colors to the boisterous designs to the intricate wood carvings on the doors. Each one is elaborately decorated, and no two trucks are alike.

To those it reaches, literature can take us from a place of ignorance to higher awareness.

IF you happen to be a Pakistani writer, particularly a writer of fiction, you are out of luck. There is a way around this stifling of stories.

A tearful conversation with an artist from Pakistan ignited Postcards from Home: my photography and writing project that documents 47 artists from both India and Pakistan, all of whom share a connection with the partition of India in 1947.

The artistic vision of Noon & Co begins with Taimoor Noon, whose personal journey took him on a road of rediscovery, exploring traditional handcrafted stonemasonry practices through the lens of contemporary design.

Shakir Ali Museum offers visitors the chance to retrace the footsteps, memories, accomplishments, events and personal life of the legendary artist through his former residential home. Located in the neighbourhood of Tipu Block, Garden Town, the museum has been an integral part of the Pakistan National Council Association since 1975.

A few years ago, the musician Ali Sethi was driving through Punjab, behind a jingle truck—the long-haul trucks known in his native Pakistan for their filigreed paint designs—when he spotted a phrase in florid Punjabi calligraphy on its back. “Agg lavaan teriya majbooriya nu,” it said—a call to “set fire to your compulsions.”

Arts Council goes digital under Covid19: With the onset of COVID19, Arts Council has taken the initiative since March 2020 to make premium artistic content available digitally to its loyal members, supporters and art enthusiasts. Efforts on every artistic front is underway to make music, poetry, storytelling, theater and dance performances available to the youth and public so that this challenging time under quarantine and lockdown can be eased for everyone.

Indus Arts Council fosters a cross-cultural exchange between the Pakistani diaspora and the diverse communities in the U.S. through Urdu classes, cultural events, films, and theater by keeping the Urdu language at the core of all its activities.

Making arts accessible to everyone and promoting artists and art groups at home, and on the world stage.

Making arts accessible to everyone and promoting artists and art groups at home, and on the world stage.

IBBY Pakistan is affiliated to the Alif Laila Book Bus Society, a registered non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been working to promote literacy and quality education in Pakistan since 1978. The organization set up the first children’s library in the country, and since then has been advocating for books and libraries for children all over Pakistan, reaching out to children in the rural and mountainous areas.

Founded in October 2017 as a non-profit organization, the Literary Society of Pakistan aims at promoting literature in Pakistan.

FACE, Foundation for Arts, Culture and Education, is an organization whose mission is to strengthen, empower, and educate communities through the arts and through cultural interactions.

Pakistan, like the rest of the subcontinent, can boast of a vibrant and deep-rooted tradition of poetry and music.

The Society has so far published 88 books in English, Urdu, and Persian. Another field of the Society for promoting historical studies, exchange of ideas, promoting interactions among the historians, and attracting the younger generation to History, was conceived through holding History Conferences.

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