Friday, February 21, 2014

The Teen Talwar in Karachi get a touch of Sindhi flavour.

This impressive monument can be found in the area of Clifton.
Karachi has many landmarks, but the Teen Talwar really stands-out. The three white marble swords symbolize (and are inscribed with the dogma of Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah) Unity, Faith and Discipline. ("ittehad, yaqeen-e-muhkam, tanzeem.") This lovely tribute was commissioned by the former President & Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Quaid-e-Awam). The abundance of white, good-quality marble in the city's vicinity has apparently encouraged its wide use for the creation of many monuments, lending a symbolic nature of grandeur & purity.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Stockholm’s Immaculate Public Library

Stockholm’s Immaculate Public Library

Housing over four million volumes of text and media, Stockholm’s nearly century-old public library is a must-see for traveling logophiles. For the internationally minded, their abundant supply of Spanish, Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian texts is hard to beat.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Anara Tower


Anara Tower was a proposed super tall skyscraper located in Dubai. It would have been 600m tall with 135 floors. It was designed to look like a massive wind turbine. The building was cancelled in 2009.