Suggest you favorite blog
Monday, November 22, 2010
Like so many years, Light Within is asking you to recommend the best Pakistani blogs. In Pakistan - the happening state - writing a blog is a great responsibility. Please show your appreciation for the best blogs (and bloggers) you have been following during the year. Also indicate the new blogs (including your own) and new bloggers that have come up during the year and we might have missed them. Leave your recommendations in comment section here or send them to sajshirazi@gmail.com.
Best of Pakistan blogs - previous years:
Pak Blogsphere - Top Ten Blogs - 2009
Pak Blogsphere - Top Ten Blogs - 2008
Pak Blogsphere - Top Ten Blogs - 2007
Pak Blogsphere - Top Ten Blogs - 2006
Labels: Fine Arts of Blogging
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:35 PM, ,
Happy Birthday to Dr. Senta Maria Anna Siller
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Dr. Siller Siller, I on my own behalf and on the behalf of all friends of Thatta Kedona, take this opportunity to thank her heartily for her exemplary and untiring efforts towards the cause.
Happy Birthday to Dr. Senta Maria Anna Siller – the honorable Mother of Dolls who is recipient of Floriade (the Netherlands), Gestaltetes Spielgut (Creative Toys – German Toys Industry), Bundesverdienstkreuz (highest civil order of merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) and many more honors.
We recommend Dr. Senta Maria Anna Siller for Pakistan President's Award for Pride for Pride of Performance.
Labels: Dr. Senta Siller, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:20 AM, ,
SPARC Initiative in Rural Areas
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
SPARC has laid down foundation of another beautiful tradition for preservation of special compounds in rural areas. The functional mud houses will be selected, earmarked and Mud House Owners in Rural Area (MORA) will be paid rupees 10, 000.00 per house per year for continuous maintenance (3-4 times repair of the mud house in a year) of the compound in their own mud homes. Mud houses must be open for visitors and students for physical measurements ( of temperature). This year three mud houses have been selected and earmarked. in village Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka.The owners will be paid the award amount by Lahore based NGO SPARC at the end of the year (April next year).
MORA will go a long way in preservation of rural cultural and traditional heritage as well as the functional mud houses.
Labels: Mud Housing
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1:10 PM, ,