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Prabowo urges Sekolah Rakyat' students embody diligence, integrity
President Prabowo Subianto on Sunday urged students, particularly those in the tuition-free Sekolah Rakyat ...
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President Prabowo Subianto on Sunday urged students, particularly those in the tuition-free Sekolah Rakyat ...
This folk song, one of the best-known Chinese melodies in the world, is believed to have originated in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and was featured in Turandot, an opera with Asian influences that the great Italian composer Giacomo Puccini left unfinished at the time of his death. As the opera was staged around the world, jasmine became an iconic cultural symbol of China, embodying romantic sensibilities.
TAXILA: A delegation led by Mamta Murthi, Vice President of the World Bank, visited Taxila Museum and prominent Unesco World Heritage sites on Sunday, reaffirming international interest in Pakistan’s rich archaeological, cultural and religious heritage. The delegation was received by Deputy Director Department of archaeology Mohammad Aasim Dogar and senior archaeologist Dr Arslan. They briefed the visitors on the museum’s extensive collection of Gandharan antiquities, Buddhist relics and rare archaeological artifacts. The officials also highlighted Taxila’s historical significance as a renowned centre of learning, culture and commerce that flourished for centuries at the crossroads of ancient civilisations. During the visit, the delegation toured various galleries of the museum and reviewed ongoing conservation and preservation initiatives aimed at protecting the region’s invaluable archaeological assets and promoting sustainable heritage management. The World Bank team also visited the Unesco World Heritage sites of Sirkap and Dharmarajika, where they were briefed about the historical, cultural and architectural importance of the ancient ruins. The sites stand as enduring symbols of the Gandharan civilization and reflect the region’s pivotal role in the spread of Buddhism across South and Central Asia. Officials informed the delegation about ongoing efforts to preserve and promote the archaeological heritage of Taxila, which continues to attract scholars, researchers and tourists from around the world. The visit underscored the growing importance of safeguarding Pakistan’s cultural heritage and enhancing international cooperation for the conservation of historical landmarks that embody the country’s diverse civilisational legacy. Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2026
"There's no big branding, but they embody the experience of generations. Enjoy these desi drinks during the summer," PM Modi said in his monthly programme.
In Lahore, food is never merely food. It is memory, migration, performance, class, longing and history carried on the tongue. Few places embody this truth more vividly than Gawalmandi, the dense and storied neighbourhood in central Lahore whose narrow streets, smoky grills, old facades and crowded eateries became inseparable from the cultural imagination of the city. To speak of Gawalmandi is to speak of Lahore itself: a city built through displacement, improvisation, coexistence and reinvention. Until recently, Gawalmandi has been celebrated primarily for its famous Food Street, for sizzling kebabs, fragrant hareesa, fried fish, doodh-jalebi and late-night crowds that gather under strings of lights. Yet reducing Gawalmandi to a culinary destination alone would flatten its layered historical significance. The neighbourhood is also a site through which one can understand urban modernity in South Asia, the social consequences of Partition, and the transformation of everyday life in postcolonial cities. Through the writings of historians and theorists such as Gyan Prakash, Ash Amin and Arjun Appadurai, Gawalmandi can be read not simply as a neighborhood but as an urban text — a space where memory, mobility, intimacy and commerce converge. The literary recollections of A. Hameed, Ahmad Shuja Pasha and Pran Neville further illuminate how Lahore’s cultural worlds were built through ordinary people, shared spaces and everyday encounters. The name “Gawalmandi” itself reveals much about its origins. Derived from the wordsgawala (milkman) andmandi (market), the locality emerged as one of the largest buffalo milk production and distribution hubs in Punjab. Before it became associated with restaurants and food culture, it was a working neighbourhood shaped by cattle, dairy trade and the rhythms of everyday commerce. The area developed substantially after 1911, during the late colonial period, when Lahore was expanding beyond the Walled City. Its roads — Nisbet Road, Chamberlain Road and McLeod Road — reflected the imprint of British colonial urban planning, while its architecture retained distinctly subcontinental sensibilities. Buildings such as the 19th century Bajaj House and the 1914 Amrit Dhara structure demonstrate this hybrid aesthetic: colonial facades adapted to local climate, craft traditions and social life. Unlike the grand imperial spaces of colonial Lahore, however, Gawalmandi evolved through dense habitation and informal economies. It was a neighbourhood of wrestlers, traders, craftsmen and working families. It possessed a rough vitality that distinguished it from elite colonial enclaves. Over time, it also became associated with the Gujjar community, many of whom trace their ancestry and social roots to the area. Yet the decisive transformation of Gawalmandi came after 1947. The Indian Partition altered Lahore irreversibly. Entire populations moved across borders in conditions of trauma and uncertainty. Muslims from Amritsar, Jalandhar and other cities migrated into Lahore, while many Hindu and Sikh residents departed. Gawalmandi became one of the first major post-Partition residential settlements outside the Walled City. The neighbourhood’s post-Partition story reflects what Gyan Prakash describes as the making of the “modern city” through rupture, improvisation and uneven urban experience. In Mumbai Fables, Prakash argues that South Asian cities are not merely planned spaces but are continuously produced through the aspirations and survival strategies of ordinary people. Gawalmandi embodies this process perfectly. Many of the migrants who settled there arrived with little capital but considerable skill. Craftsmen opened workshops in front of their homes. Small vendors transformed domestic thresholds into commercial spaces. Families carried recipes, techniques and food traditions from their ancestral cities and adapted them to the new urban environment. As local accounts suggest, the food stalls gradually multiplied until every lane offered something distinctive. The migrants from Amritsar popularised gram flour-coated fried fish that eventually became known throughout Lahore as “Lahore fish.” Kashmiri families introduced hareesa. Wrestler families brought specialised barbecue techniques and falooda traditions. Doodh-jalebi emerged as another iconic local specialty. Thus, it offered a perfect ambience for politician like Nawaz Sharif to spend his impressionable years at Gawalmandi which remained his political support base throughout. This culinary evolution was not accidental. It was a social response to displacement. Partition migrants reconstructed belonging through food. In doing so, they transformed Gawalmandi into a sensory archive of memory. Recipes became repositories of lost homes, vanished cities and inherited skills. Arjun Appadurai’s influential work on globalisation and everyday life helps illuminate this phenomenon. Appadurai argues that locality is not fixed geographically but is continually produced through social practice, memory and performance. Food, in this sense, is one of the most powerful ways communities reproduce identity. Gawalmandi’s cuisine thus became more than commerce. It became a way of rebuilding the self after historical rupture. One of the most striking aspects of Gawalmandi is the way public life unfolds in the street itself. The neighbourhood’s food culture depends on density, proximity and collective presence. Families eat outdoors late into the night. Vendors cook in open view. Children move through crowds. Strangers share tables. Ash Amin’s writings on “urban conviviality” are especially useful here. Amin argues that cities create forms of everyday coexistence that are not necessarily based on formal political unity but on repeated encounters, shared spaces and practical negotiation. Gawalmandi exemplifies such convivial urbanism. Historically, the area brought together Hindu, Sikh and Muslim communities. Even after Partition altered its demographic structure, the neighbourhood retained traces of plural cultural memory. The architecture, culinary practices and urban rhythms continued to carry echoes of mixed histories. This coexistence was not utopian. Like many dense urban neighbourhoods, Gawalmandi also experienced conflict, class tensions and political contestation. Yet its streets enabled forms of interaction rarely found in segregated modern urban developments. In contemporary Lahore, where gated communities increasingly dominate elite aspirations, Gawalmandi offers a radically different model of urban life. It remains noisy, porous, crowded and unpredictable. Its vitality depends precisely on this openness. The neighbourhood therefore challenges sanitised notions of urban modernity. For Gyan Prakash, South Asian cities are often marked by contradiction: aspiration exists alongside decay; modernity coexists with informality. Gawalmandi reflects these tensions vividly. It has long been described simultaneously as chaotic and authentic, deteriorating and alive. Much of its emotional resonance emerges through literary and nostalgic writing about Lahore. A. Hameed often portrayed Lahore not as a monumental city but as a lived emotional landscape built through tea houses, conversations, alleyways, smells and fleeting encounters. In his recollections, old Lahore possessed a human intimacy increasingly threatened by modern development. Gawalmandi belongs precisely to this disappearing urban sensibility. Similarly, Ahmad Shuja Pasha’s writings on Lahore captured the social texture of the city’s neighborhoods — the humour, eccentricity and performative culture of ordinary Lahoris. Pasha understood that Lahore’s identity resided less in official histories than in everyday public life. Gawalmandi’s crowded streets, wrestling culture, food traditions and neighbourhood politics all reflect this performative urban ethos. Pran Neville also provides crucial insight into the city’s cosmopolitan past. Neville repeatedly emphasised Lahore’s composite culture, where Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs participated in overlapping social worlds. Thus Gawalmandi is not merely a site of consumption. It is a repository of layered memory. Walking through Gawalmandi today reveals another dimension of its significance: its fragile architectural heritage. Many structures in the area still retain pre-Partition features — wooden balconies, carved facades, ornamental windows and mixed colonial-subcontinental designs. Yet these structures exist under immense pressure from commercialisation, neglect and unregulated development. The transformation of Gawalmandi into an official Food Street around 2000 reflected both preservation and commodification. Local activists, food enthusiasts and government authorities attempted to conserve historical structures while branding the area as a tourist destination. Residents were initially hesitant. The idea of converting everyday streets into curated cultural space was unfamiliar. Eventually, however, buildings were restored, commercial signage regulated and restaurants expanded into formerly residential spaces. The initiative gained international attention after visits by diplomats and foreign officials who viewed the street as evidence of Lahore’s cultural richness and public vibrancy. Yet heritage-making in South Asia is always political. In 2011, the Punjab government shut down the Food Street, arguing that it obstructed roads and created inconvenience. Historic gates associated with pre-Partition families were demolished. Thousands connected to the local food economy reportedly lost livelihoods. The closure revealed the uneasy relationship between bureaucracy and organic urban culture. (to be continued) Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2026
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This sponsored article is brought to you by Ampace. As AI workloads grow to gigascale levels, the global data center industry has hit a hidden physical wall. The real bottleneck is no longer just the thermal limit of the chip or the capacity of the cooling system — it is the dynamic resilience of the power chain. Modern AI computing clusters, driven by massive GPU clusters, generate high-frequency, abrupt, and synchronized spikey pulse loads. As rack densities soar beyond 100 kW, these fluctuations are amplified into a “power paradox”: while the digital logic of AI is moving faster than ever, the physical infrastructure supporting it remains tethered to legacy response capabilities. The power usage of these gigascale sites and their drastic, high frequency, abrupt load surges from the AI GPU clusters can trigger transient voltage events and frequency instability, risking the entire local grid. The grid itself is not robust enough to support these loads. This leads to the infrastructure gap: The utility is not robust enough and traditional backup sources, such as diesel generators and gas turbines, simply cannot react to millisecond-level power spikes in output. This will often force operators into a cycle of costly infrastructure over sizing just to buffer the volatility. AI infrastructure requires energy systems capable of instantaneous response while safeguarding continuity and reliability. The industry has explored various mitigations — from rack-level BBUs to 800V DC architectures — yet the mature, high volume, traditional UPS system remains the most viable and scalable foundation for gigawatt-level facilities. Consequently, the UPS-integrated battery system has emerged as the critical “physical buffer” to neutralize these pulses at the source. At Data Center World 2026 in Washington, D.C., Ampace led a pivotal technical dialogue with Eaton during the session “Powering Giga-scale AI.” Their exchange unveiled a fundamental paradigm shift: To bridge the AI power gap, energy storage must evolve from a passive insurance policy into an active, high-speed stabilizer. By aligning Ampace’s semi-solid-state battery innovation with Eaton’s proven system intelligence, we are moving beyond simple backup to solve the physical paradox of the AI era. To move beyond simple backup and solve the physical paradox of the AI era, Ampace is aligning its semi-solid-state battery innovation with Eaton’s proven system intelligence.Ampace The “Shock Absorber” physics: semi-solid chemistry for AI pulses Conventional power systems were designed for steady-state loads, not the rapid heartbeat of a massive AI GPU cluster. 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Together, these approaches embody a shared industry philosophy: AI infrastructure requires energy systems capable of instantaneous response while safeguarding continuity and reliability. Ampace’s semi-solid state chemistry minimizes liquid electrolyte, greatly reducing the risk of leakage and thermal runaway under continuous AI high-load conditions.Ampace Algorithmic intelligence: synchronizing energy and control Hardware alone cannot solve the AI power paradox; the system also requires intelligent coordination between energy storage and power management. Sophisticated battery management systems (BMS) like Ampace’s high-precision design track state-of-charge (SOC) with high-speed sampling, even during rapid, shallow cycling typical in AI workloads. Complementary algorithmic approaches in modern UPS platforms — such as ramp-rate control and average power management — effectively suppress sub-synchronous oscillations and optimize load smoothing. In large-scale AI training environments, where thousands of GPUs can trigger millisecond-level power pulses, these intelligent layers ensure that batteries buffer high-frequency fluctuations without compromising the mandatory emergency backup reserves. By transforming energy storage from passive “standby insurance” into active, schedulable assets, the system simultaneously safeguards continuous AI training and maintains the long-term health of the data center infrastructure. In practical terms, this means that even during peak compute bursts, the infrastructure remains stable, training cycles continue uninterrupted, and operators avoid costly oversizing or grid stress. Eaton’s dual-layer algorithms serve as a valuable benchmark in this space, demonstrating how advanced control logic can achieve similar objectives, reinforcing Ampace’s approach and philosophy within the broader data center power ecosystem. Economic scalability: optimizing AI infrastructure efficiently One of the largest costs in deploying AI infrastructure is “oversizing”: procuring transformers, generators, and UPS systems to handle brief peak spikes. This traditional approach inflates the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and leads to wasted capital on underutilized hardware. Ampace’s turn-key cabinet design developed by its independent R&D is engineered for seamless compatibility with mature, high volume UPS systems. By leveraging Eaton’s double-conversion UPS topologies alongside intelligent ramp-rate and average power management algorithms, AI data centers can scale dynamically without requiring costly infrastructure redesigns. This approach allows the UPS and batteries to act as active load-shapers, smoothing AI-driven pulses while strictly maintaining mandatory emergency backup capacity. By utilizing energy storage as an active, schedulable asset, operators can right-size their infrastructure, avoid unnecessary grid upgrades, and deploy gigascale AI clusters with unprecedented efficiency. Safety First: Protecting AI Infrastructure While Enabling Innovation In high-density AI facilities, safety is non-negotiable. Ampace’s semi-solid state chemistry minimizes liquid electrolyte, greatly reducing the risk of leakage and thermal runaway under continuous AI high-load conditions. Ampace’s turn-key cabinet design developed by its independent R&D is engineered for seamless compatibility with mature, high volume UPS systems. Ampace At the same time, Eaton’s UPS design emphasizes system-level energy scheduling that never sacrifices mandatory emergency backup reserves, ensuring thermal safety and uninterrupted operation. This “safety-first” approach ensures that infrastructure can sustain aggressive performance targets without compromising the physical integrity of the facility. Coupled with over a decade of proven high-cycle life operation and design under shallow pulse conditions, these systems can extend operational lifespan, reduce replacement requirements, and provide operators with confidence that safety and reliability remain uncompromised as compute density continues to grow. To remain the scalable backbone of AI data centers As AI computing scales over the next two to three years, the industry will face stricter grid requirements and even more demanding pulse load characteristics. This evolution demands a forward-looking design philosophy that harmonizes UPS, battery, and grid compatibility. Ampace views current low-electrolyte semi-solid technologies as the optimal transitional step toward a fully solid-state future — one that promises ultimate safety and performance. Ampace remains committed to this long-term technological roadmap. We view current low-electrolyte semi-solid technologies as the optimal transitional step toward a fully solid-state future — one that promises ultimate safety and performance. Whether through rack-level BBU, integrated UPS systems, or containerized storage, the universal core of the AI era remains constant: high-speed response, long shallow-cycle life, and refined energy management. By engaging in deep technical exchanges with Eaton and leading energy innovators, Ampace ensures that its solutions not only meet today’s AI pulse challenges but also harmonize with broader infrastructure strategies and shared industry best practices. Ultimately, as traditional diesel generators gradually give way to diversified alternatives, the integrated UPS-plus-energy-storage system will become the fundamental infrastructure standard. The dialogue has just begun. Ampace will continue to engage in strategic exchanges with global industrial automation leaders and digital energy pioneers, co-authoring the playbook for a safer, more efficient, and more resilient AI-ready world.