Culture

NEW DELHI, Sept 30 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ordered his bureaucrats to come in to work to clean up their offices — including toilets — on this week\’s national holiday to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi\’s birthday. The move is part of a nationwide cleanliness drive to be launched by Modi on the holiday

NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters): Walking may never become as trendy as CrossFit, as sexy as mud runs or as ego-boosting as Ironman races but for fitness experts who stress daily movement over workouts and an active lifestyle over weekends of warrior games, walking is a super star. For author and scientist Katy Bowman, walking

CHITRAL, Sept 23: Training sessions for young artists were held in Chitral to revive, protect and promote age-old traditions of music and dance amongst the Kho tribe of Chitral. The activity was undertaken by the Chitral Association for Mountain Area Tourism (CAMAT) through funding from USAID-SGAFP and implemented by the National Rural Support Proramme (NRSP).

SRINAGAR, Sept 19: A top Kashmiri leader Friday urged New Delhi to follow Britain\’s lead in allowing Scotland\’s independence referendum and let the Himalayan region hold a similar vote. While violence has largely diminished in Indian Kashmir, the issue of self-determination is still a divisive one. The Scottish referendum in which voters rejected independence by

EDINBURGH, Sept 19: Scottish voters have rejected independence, deciding to remain part of the United Kingdom after a historic referendum that shook the country to its core. The decision prevented a rupture of a 307-year union with England, bringing a huge sigh of relief to the British political establishment. Scots voted 55 per cent to

CHITRAL, Sept 9: For the preservation of the centuries-old Khow (Chitrali) culture, a project has been launched by the Chitral Association for Mountain Areas Tourism (CAMAT) with the financial assistance of USAID. Addressing the launching ceremony of the project, the team leader, Dr. Inayatullah Faizi, said that the project was aimed at promoting tourism and

CHITRAL, Aug 3: A rag tag folk band called Haqiqat, replete with a jerrycan percussionist, has been keeping Chitrali folk music on the respirator and out of the coffin. The band has been performing pro bono music-saving services for years now. According to its members, Haqiqat has been performing at weddings and other festive occasions

Khowar Nama is a quarterly Khowar Magazine published in Chitral for the last one year under the sponsorship and editorialship of Mother Tongue Institute of Education and Research (MIER) to document the culture, traditions, values, folk and classical music, works and contribution of Chitrali artists. It has been an educational and cultural tradition of subcontinent,