Amar Nath Sehgal Private Collection is one of only two single artists museums in India and is a tribute to the master modernist
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When young Hindu girls go to school in the morning in Sindh, Pakistan, their parents are never sure whether they will ever see them again: a report on the refugees who have escaped to Jodhpur from Sindh and are starting a new life in India.
.’Viceroy’s House’ – a screening in NYC. The evening was organized by Indo-American Arts Council at IFC Center and the celebs included Writer-Director Gurinder Chadha, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Samrat Chakrabarti and Tanveer Ghani,
For all those separated by artificial, manmade borders, here is a love story, a story of friendship which can make you cry – in a happy sort of way. And guess who made it happen? Google! Really, I think we are getting over-dependent on Google to help us in our search for knowledge, words, images, addresses, cat videos – and now even in our search for emotional well-being.
Never knew a Google commercial could make us cry, reach deep down to our better selves, to our aspirations for reunion and healing. The Big G seems to have become an indispensable part of our lives.
The tragedy of Partition is almost Shakespearean in its fallout. It’s been over sixty-three years since this catastrophic event occurred yet its effects continue to unfold, like seismic aftershocks. No one on the Indian sub-continent has really escaped its scathing wounds as the two countries carved out of undivided India in 1947 – independent India and Pakistan – reel even today from the legacy of hatred and suspicion unleashed by the Partition. In reality, one people, one culture, today stand on opposite shores – We and They – talking in tongues which neither understands.
One would think that everything that had to be said about the Partition has been said but along comes Sarah Singh, an intrepid film-maker who has boldly gone into this troubled, calloused territory.
Riveting.
That’s probably the word one is searching for when asked about the new face of Pakistani art which is now being shown in art centers internationally. For a country in so much pain politically and socially – not to mention economically – Pakistan is surprisingly on top of things where art is concerned.