{"id":13677,"date":"2014-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/07\/29\/new-book-highlights-historic-temples-of-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:00:00","slug":"new-book-highlights-historic-temples-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/07\/29\/new-book-highlights-historic-temples-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Highlights Historic Temples of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/india\/art-matters-temples-in-pakistan-565551\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PAKISTAN, July 26, 2014 (ndtv): The book, &#8220;Historic Temples in Pakistan: A Call to Conscience,&#8221; authored by Karachi-based journalist Reema Abbasi, focuses on minority Hindus who celebrate Indian festivals on the other side of the border. A result of extensive research, the book highlights around 400 photographs that cover different aspects of overlooked historical temples and shrines in Pakistan that few know about. <\/p>\n<p>Madiha Aijaz who teaches photography at the Indus Valley School of Architecture, does justice to the book by beautifully capturing the multi-colored and vibrant images. &#8220;It is a subject that is just so less documented and it hasn&#8217;t been talked about,&#8221; she says. <\/p>\n<p>Reema and Madiha travelled far and wide to various pilgrimage sites like Hinglaj, the abode of goddess Durga in Balochistan; the Katas Raj temple in Punjab, one of the holiest in Hinduism and known for providing refuge to the Pandavas; the Kalka cave temple in Sindh; the Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir in Karachi, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PAKISTAN, July 26, 2014 (ndtv): The book, &#8220;Historic Temples in Pakistan: A Call to Conscience,&#8221; authored by Karachi-based journalist,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}