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Young Kashmiri artists seek to reinvent calligraphy
Irtiqa Bazaz, in (IIOJK), was about 10 when she started learning the art of calligraphy
SRINAGAR:
Irtiqa Bazaz, in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), was about 10 when she started learning the art of calligraphy on her own.
Years later, the 21-year-old has chosen the art form as a profession. She is pursuing a degree in applied arts from a local university in the Kashmir region and wants to master calligraphy and paintings. When I was very young, I used to imitate the Quranic verses on my school notebook but as time passed I developed an interest in this art and started working on it, she said.
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Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore looks at the spontaneity of the Jhelum river during one autumnal evening of October 1915, from the Baradari (Building Pavillion allowing free flow of air) of his host, Pandit Anand Koul Bamzai s house in Zaina .
SRINAGAR: Hakim Samir Hamdani, Kashmir’s top architect who specialises in Muslim architecture will be doing his post-doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has received an acceptable offer for his plan from the world’s top rate institute under Agha Khan Programme.
Hakeem Samir Hamdani
Hamdani is the Design Director at the INTACH Kashmir chapter, a position he has held since 2010.
“Just got acceptance offer for Aga Khan Program Post-Doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT,” Hamdani broke the sweet news on Twitter at a time when the micro-blogging site was behaving like the virtual cemetery owing to the Covid-19 crisis. “Started my academic journey quite late, but then it’s been a journey working with artisans and craftsmen that has got me where I am, today,