KARACHI: Starting 4pm today, Karachi will be eating. And for good reason too as Karachi Eat 2016 is bringing together the city’s rich food diversity at Frere Hall until Sunday evening.
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These 21 Martial Arts Disciplines Will Break Your Body & Blow Your Mind (with Photos)
Many of us took karate lessons as kids. It’s fun to collect colorful belts and try to impersonate Street Fighter characters with your buddies, but when karate – or any martial art – is taken to the next level, fighting can get pretty real. Here’s a look at some disciplines that are anything but child’s play. 1. Karate It might be popular with kids, but karate owes its popularity to its effectiveness. Its array of…
Read More13 Japanese Diet Tips To Make You Healthier And Beautiful Both Inside And Outside
The Japanese have the longest life span in the world with 86 years for women and 79 years for men. All of this is thanks to what they eat thus making the island nation with the lowest obesity rate (3%) in the developed world. “The Japanese diet is the iPod of food,” says Naomi Moriyama, a dietician, “it concentrates the magnificent energy of food into a compact and pleasurable size.” 1. Eat with Your Eyes…
Read MoreBest Old School Exercises (with Photos)
Wide-Grip Chins You don’t see too many people doing wide grip chins anymore. Everyone does lat pulldowns, but they seem to have forgotten about chins in recent years. Back in the day all of us—Arnold, Franco, Ken Waller—we all used to do them religiously. What’s really great is supersetting chins with bench presses. That’s what Arnold and I used to do; back and forth, one to the other. You’re working antagonistic muscle groups, like when…
Read MoreEid Ul Fitr Dresses for Women (with Photos)
Eid Ul Fitr Dresses for Men (with Photos)
Traditional dress for Males on Eid is Shalwar Kurta. It shows our traditions image as well as Stylish at the same time. Western Style Dresses are also In style for Males.
Read MoreSadequain and Calligraphic Modernism
This article examines the career of the immensely productive Sadequain Naqqash (1930-87), Pakistan’s most celebrated artist. A self-trained, larger-than-life figure, Sadequain charted a singular trajectory in enacting a paradoxical subjectivity. He remained close to national aesthetic ideologies that promoted calligraphy under the increasing Islamization of the 1970s and 1980s, yet maintained a persona that simultaneously relayed aspects of transgressive Indo-Persian Sufism into a dialogue with transnational modernism during the 1950s and 1960s in order to…
Read MoreSadequain’s Calligraphy
Sadequain’s calligraphy at Lahore Museum. Sadequain’s calligraphy at Lahore Museum. Sadequain’s calligraphy at Lahore Museum. Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Pakistani Awards), also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered as one of the finest painters and calligraphers Pakistan has ever produced. Sadequain was responsible for the renaissance of Islamic calligraphy in Pakistan….
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Islamic calligraphy, or Arabic calligraphy, is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, based upon the Arabic language and alphabet in the lands sharing a common Islamic cultural heritage.It is derived from the Persian calligraphy. It is known in Arabic as khatt, which derived from the word ‘line’, ‘design’, or ‘construction’. The traditional instrument of the Arabic calligrapher is the qalam, a pen made of dried reed or bamboo; the ink is often in color,…
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