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May ’68 arrives in Austria

Mehru Jaffer

After having changed the world with its boundless creativity and inventions in the past few centuries, Europe seems in slumber today.

Quiet flows the Amu Darya

Mehru Jaffer

The excitement that morning was different from those spent earlier at other oasis cities along the Great Silk Road.

Back to Bukhara

Mehru Jaffer

In the first couplet of the eighth ghazal of his 'Divan', Hafiz Shirazi wishes for the Turkish beauty to take his heart in her hand.

Gentle breeze from yore

Mehru Jaffer

Part of the summer this year was spent in Samarqand, the city of fruits. The apricot here is no longer worth its weight in gold.

Akbar’s Hamzanama

Mehru Jaffer

It has the long title of ‘Global: Lab. Art as a Message. Asia and Europe -- 1500-1700’. However, the thematic connotation of this delightful exhibition is even more enduring. This experimental global laboratory is a treasure house of thrilling records of what happens when opposing cultures collide and cooperate with each other.

From futile to fertile

Mehru Jaffer

It is no secret that Hassan bin Talal preferred to give up the throne of Jordan rather than his liberal views. He was crown prince between 1965 and 1999.

Investing, with love

Mehru Jaffer

When I went to Hyderabad in the summer of 2004, I was exposed to a foreign culture for the first time

Memories of Karl Marx Hof

Mehru Jaffer

The Austro-Marxists in power believed in municipal socialism. Their dream of a future socialist society was visualised as a "pragmatic utopia"

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