Yearly Archives: 2017

INDIAN INNER LANDSCAPES / Rajasthan

The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The sole purpose of this site, is to spread the knowledge of these artists and that other people enjoy their works. There are places in Rajasthan where the walls of temples contain the enchantment of eternity. This is the land where you will also be …

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LEARNING KEYBOARD AND PIANO – Rapperiya Baalam, Rajasthan’s songwraiter

He was born in 1992 at Dabla (district Sriganganagar, Rajasthan). After completing primary school, he moved to Jaipur in 2006 for secondary and college education, where he started learning keyboard and piano in 2012. Ashok Manda Bishnoi, better known by his stage name RAPPERIYA BAALAM is a songwriter. He became famous in 2014 with “Mharo Rajasthan” (a fusion hip hop …

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AKHEPATAR – Novel by Bindu Bhat

She began her career as a teacher and later started writing in Gudrara and Hindi. BINDU BHAT is a short story writer, critic and translator. Her second novel Akhepatar, have awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2003, and was published in 1999 and have been translated in several languages (including Hindi and Sindhi, Marathi, Rajasthani and English). She …

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SILENT CHANGE IN RAJASTHAN – The poetic of Kanhaiyalal Sethia

His poems reflect the silent changes taking place in rural life, and the melting pot of elements (like nature and philosophy) inside the language, where every word seems to have been generated to suit the meaning of what the poet wants to convey to his readers. KANHAIYALAL SETHIA was a well known Rajasthani such an Hindi poet. He was born …

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GOPAL SWAMI KHETANCHI (1958), INDIAN REALIST PAINTER

GOPAL SWAMI KHETANCHI 1/3 – He hails from Sardarshahar town (in Churu district), and his father was a painter who worked as an art teacher. His appreciation of India’s history remains evident throughout his paintings. He grew up in Rajasthan and ventured into painting at the age of 15 (starting with portraits). He was inspired by the paintings of Leonardo …

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WALKING WITH FOUR CREATIVE PEOPLE– Pakistan author’s travel

Tourism in Pakistan, with different cultures and landscapes, has been able to attract more than 1 million people over the years. Its range of attractions includes the ruins of the civilization of Mohenjo-daro, Harappa and Taxila. If you do not want to get to the foot of the Himalayas, start your journey with knowing Noshi Gillani and Nadeem Aslam, Atif …

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PAKISTAN ART FRAGMENTS

MAYBE YOU TOO Every year, only a small number of die-hard climbers travel to Pakistan https://www.lonelyplanet.com/pakistan, a country which is often portrayed in the media as a war-torn hellhole, and where tourism is almost non-existent. For what reason would you travel to Pakistan? Maybe you too are determined to be one of them. If you do not want to get …

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MUSAFIR – Atif Aslam

Spurred by his friends, he began to sing in public until he met a talented guitarist who gave impetus to his desire to sing. He appeared in Western newspapers for defending a spectator who during a concert had been subjected to sexual harassment. ATIF ASLAM – Pakistani singer and actor – was born in Wazirabad, March 12, 1983. As a …

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MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS – Novel by Nadeem Aslam

At 13, he published his first Urdu story in a Pakistani daily. At the age of 14, he had to leave Pakistan for reasons related to his father’s political activity. NADEEM ASLAM – a British naturalized Pakistani writer – was born in Gujranwala in July 1966, becoming famous for his second novel: Maps for Lost Lovers (set in the middle …

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I SAY NOTHING ANYWHERE – Noshi Gillani

Her zodiac sign is fish. She is a member of a generation of female poets and her experience of living in the US certainly has had a strong influence on her poems. In 1995 she settled in San Francisco (US), then moved to Australia, where three years later she married an Australian Urdu poet. Her fifth collection of poems was …

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