Despite a woeful lack of theatrical technique and a simplistic plot, Anwar Maqsood’s debut script for theatre was a mix of cynical truths and hilarious truisms about Pakistan.
Newsline speaks to Lahore-based artist, Risham Syed, a winner of the prestigious Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012, who exhibited her completed artwork at Art Dubai, in March this year.
Though Peelu Vance, a village in central Punjab, boasts 96% literacy, it is still a shabby and dusty backwater and its deplorable poverty is reflective of the quality of education available to its residents.