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‘At once silent and eloquent’: Pakistan’s visual poetry

This line from the famous Mughul poet Ghalib refers to what he claimed to be ancient Persian tradition of petitioners wearing paper before entering the courts to get justice: Whose mischief created a world of beseechers? Each petitioner is seen wearing a garment of paper Indeed, for a country that has a low literacy rate, […]

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