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...years when the democratic ideals of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first leader, slowly warped into Islamic nationalism and, later, iron rule by military dictators backed by foreign governments. But Pakistani art also began to mature during this period. Galleries and journals were established, and artists like Chughtai and Sadequain flavored their international modernism with local flair. See the top 10 nonfiction books...
...daughter, at his Lahore home in 1999 by an unstable roti vendor who also wounded Akhlaq's close friend and student Anwar Saeed, visiting at the time. Saeed's robust, homoerotic work shares his mentor's primordial vision. In swaths of deep blues and thick yellows reminiscent of Chughtai's watercolors, which themselves echo the primal Fauvism of Henri Rousseau, Saeed paints a semiclad man surreally clutching a large fish (The Principle of Delicacy). He also draws two men in romantic embrace, one with the fly of his jeans suggestively gaping, in A Book of Imaginary Companions...
...more I believe in the greatness of God. The universe and our existence may be explained by laws of physics, but only up to a point. There will always be a limit to what physicists can explain with a formula. They, too, may become more religious with time. Talat Chughtai, M.D. Toronto...
...TALAT CHUGHTAI, M.D. Toronto...
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