Noor Zehra Kazim is perhaps the world’s only player of the Sagar Veena, a string instrument designed for use in North Indian Classical Music, developed entirely in Pakistan over the last 40 years. I first heard of her when I found the Sanjan Nagar Institute’s website, a few years ago. News about Sanjan Nagar and the Sagar Veena has been slow to reach out to the mainstream, though it seems that even before its popular debut, the institute and the instrument were a big deal among the intellectual circles of 21st century Pakistan.

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In the autumn of 2011, volunteers Currim Suteria of Montreal, Canada and Ibtesam Pooya from Islamabad set of to Shigar, Baltistan to work on the Abruzzi School teaching garden. This is their story.

Situated along the Makran coast, and occupying an area of about 1,650 square kilometers, Hingol is the largest National Park in the country. The unique terrain of the park is a challenge to the Offroaders with their 4 wheel drives sliding down near vertical river banks, crossing through boulders, shingled land and sinking in soft sand as they make their way towards the noble mountain of Goran Gatti.

This is the story of Gutter Baghicha, one of the last remaining open spaces in Karachi.