Saturday, 9 November 2013

The magic lantern: Lahore’s miniature cinema of afterlife MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI

The anonymous master who had introduced the new genre in Indian miniature art was never heard from again.

The winter skies had grown darker than usual and the chill in the air more unbearable when Muhammad Bakhsh finished saying his maghrib prayers at the Wazir Khan mosque, and headed for his spot near the bathhouse with a white sheet and the carefully wrapped collection of miniatures tucked under his arm. He hung the sheet from the faience tile-work wall, and began stringing up the

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