The modern day genius in Kashmiri, Urdu literature
Remembering Basheer Asrar-
By: Mariya Younis, Hashim Muneer Khan Basheer Asrar, one of the most prominent and acclaimed modern Kashmiri writers who died on Sunday 3rd January 2021 due to cardiac arrest at his residence Bakshiabad Anantnag at the age of 68 will be remembered forever for his literary contributions and for the uniqueness of his work. ”A […]
Artist and Artwork: Tagreed Darghouth
Born in 1979 in Saida, Lebanon, Tagreed Darghouth currently lives in Beirut. She operates as a socio-cultural historian, with a practice that focuses on the myriad cultural changes in her country. Darghout received her degree in Fine Arts from Lebanese University in Beirut, and continued her studies at the Ayloul Summer Academy at Darat Al […]
Suggestive Measures to start Pre- Primary Classes in Govt. Schools
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way the child learn”
BY: Gh Hassan Bhat No country has ever achieved a status of greatness without education. It is the only tool to improve the status of life and to make world a better place by eradicating poverty, unemployment and gloom from the faces of people around the globe. As far as Indian education system is concerned, […]
Featured Artist: Zehra Dogan
Zehra Dogan is a Kursdish artist and journalist who was arrested and imprisoned in 2017 for her art. Born in 1989 the 31 year old artist and journalist Zehra Dogan was charged with “terrorist propaganda” which was an initial reaction of Turkish government on her revolutionary news coverage, social media posts, and her paintings. In […]
Sayed Haider Raza: Artist and Atwork
A renowned Indian artist Sayed Haider Raza commonly known as S H Raza was born on 30th March 1922 in Kakkaiya, near town Bichhiya Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh. Recipient of Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, Raza took to drawing at the age of 12. He co-founded the revolutionary Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group […]
Bapu Ji: Nandalal Bose
Nandalal Bose painted the famous portrait of Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March. The protest where Gandhi was fighting against the British who had imposed the tax on salt. To mark the date of Dandi march and as the support for the potest, Nandalal Bose painted a black and white linocut print of Mahatma Gandhi walking during […]
Aurooj Nasir: Budding Artist
Aurooj Nasir, is a budding artist from Gantamulla village of Narvaw in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. She is a student of fine arts displaying immense skill and creativity in art of calligraphy. Aurooj did her schooling from Baramulla Public School and after completing her 12th, she developed interest in Arabic Calligraphy. It was during the […]
Safwan Dahoul: Artist and Artwork
Safwan Dahoul was born in 1961 in Hama, Syria. He is known for his beautiful melancholic and monochromatic works in a style influenced by the Cubist style of Picasso with manifestation ranging to Assyrian and Pharaonic art. Dahoul took his initial training at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus before travelling to Belgium, […]
Propaganda in Art
The purpose of art may be difficult to attach to single concept as it has played different functions throughout its history. Art critics and artists themselves came up with different opinions to describe the purpose of art and majority of opinions suggest that art is an expression of imagination, a powerful way of communication and […]
Claude Monet: Artist and Artwork
Born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, Monet was famous French painter known for his impressionistic style of painting. The term Impressionism came up during an art exhibition in 1874 when a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression,” since it was more concerned with form and light than realism, and the term stuck and […]
