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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicIslamic art

Topic: islamic art

Mahishasura Mardini in Ghazni: Humayun’s Tomb museum exhibition offers unsafe truths

Italian archaeologist Laura Giuliano’s curation brings together the entangled histories of India, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Iran and Italy, at a time when this knowledge is being deliberately forgotten.

Rasheed Araeen, veteran British artist of Pakistani origin, watches as kids dismantle his art

Araeen sees a link between his geometric abstractionism and Islamic art that he explores in Islam and Modernism, a book published last year by the Grosvenor Gallery.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.