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And it leaves me with nothing more to explain further on the issue. Your comments are most welcome…

During my one and a half year, I have witnessed a new world and have found myself in an environment where I can develop and promote myself. I was never that bold and confident as I am now. This is all because of my beloved institution ‘Textile Institute of Pakistan’. Despite of being in the list of top textile universities of Pakistan having 100% job placements, there is still a chorus among the textile industrialists that TIP students are ‘Non-technical’.

Great minds discuss ideas-so do I. I have got some suggestions to eliminate this ‘Non-technical’ word from the graduates of TIP. Since textile management, apparel and designing students need not to be much technical as per their job requirements; my focus of debate is largely Textile science students. My very first point out of my three point’s agenda is:

Practical/Lab Exams
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For those of you who have graduated recently here’s some more salt to your wounds…

Effective 10th November Comments and Cartoons of the Graduating Class 2007 will not be entertained.

Shocked? Don’t be, you didn’t submit anything to the magazine so i really won’t bother going into the specifics! Now nobody will know that you graduated this year except your Mom and Dad and maybe a brother or sister if you’re close to them….

The following Graduated Classes have NOT sent me their Comments and Cartoons, so no dice for you…

- Apparel Marketing and Manufacturing (AMM)
- Textile Marketing and Management (TMM)

So Last Call to Board the Train or Be Left Behind, No Second Call for Losers; Have too many Passengers on the Train anyhow!

May the Force be with you…. suckers!

I have a bird. And he sometimes gets angry and bites really hard. But it’s not his fault.

It’s not his fault cause he’s just a bird in a cage.

KARACHI, Feb 13: The theft of cell phones, vehicles and money has become a routine affair in the city, but this is the first time an artist has been deprived of her models and some paintings, besides old identity cards and research papers.

An artist in residence of the Textile Institute of Pakistan (TIP) has registered a case with with the Bin Qasim police station about the theft.

Artist and art teacher Sumaya Durrani said she was invited by the TIP to conduct research and teach art to students. She was given a townhouse by the TIP to conduct her research. She was engaged in both tasks for over a year.

She prepared the synopsis for her PhD, which she was in the process of submitting to the University of Karachi for registration as a doctorate fellow.

“Our family was out on January 13 when someone stole my artwork, paintings, research about art education, graphs, especially the models of jewellery, which serve as prototypes made of base metal, to see how the jewellery will actually look,” she told Dawn.—Staff Reporter

Source: DAILY DAWN
http://dawn.com/2007/02/14/local11.htm

Marjorie Husain writes in Daily Dawn’s Gallery (20th May, ‘06) about Sumaya Durrani, TIP design faculty artist in residence.

Visiting Sumaya Durrani at the Textile Institute of Pakistan, about 40 kms out of Karachi where she is currently artist in residence, was an invigorating experience. Before viewing the work intended for exhibition at the Chawkandi Art, we crossed the campus into the large studio that holds an incredible body of work under process. The canvases that lined the walls, 8x 4 feet, and 8×8 in size still awaited considerable work, but were linked by a sequence of historic portraits and exotic plant life and birds; all described in beautiful colour. ‘Where will you hang these?” I asked, but Sumaya had no answer to that. She calculates it will take perhaps a year to finish the entire work and only then will begin to think about the subsequent process. Visions of the National Contemporary Art Gallery in Islamabad flashed through my mind as that venue is perhaps the only one large enough to hang the work. Leaving the gallery, we made our way to her home studio where her recent work was in the process of drying before being framed.

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While the Oral Communication presentations were in progress in the auditorium (17 May), a little grey coloured creature was seen scurrying across the parapet of the ceiling and audaciously made its way onto the stage. Undaunted by this distraction, students continued with their presentations while the furry rodent kept darting to and fro. Try as we might, the animal refused to leave the premises.

Housekeeping Staff please take note of “intruders”.

The article has been contributed by Mrs. Shameem Noorani