Dorota Piotrowiak' obtained a diploma in the painting studio of prof. Mieczyslaw Ziomek at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 1996. . She works in painting, sculpture and graphics. Since 2013, she has been creating models and dioramas of nature, as well as maquettes and thematic displays for national parks, landscape parks and museums. She conducts authorial workshops for children and young people using the papier-mâché technique. She is the initiator and organizer of “Sztuka Papieru” ( the Art of Paper ) Festival in cooperation with the Friends of the Lower Vistula Society and Paper Technical School in Świecie on Vistula. Associated with the Art of Paper studio ( www.sztukapapieru.pl ). Here are some of the portraits made by her: Disclaimer: The copyright remains with the original holder. This blog is intended to introduce this amazing artist to a wider audience.
Hardeep/Hardip Chatrath I remember him as "Billa Chacha". He was my father's younger brother. In 1947 our extended family staying in Sialkot and Lahore got uprooted. My father, had left that city two decades earlier after passing his LL.B from Punjab University, Lahore and had started practising Law at Ferozepur. Just before partition he was appointed to the Punjab Civil Service and posted as City Magistrate, Amritsar. So around August 1947 members of our larger family came to our house in Amritsar and took shelter there. One of them was Hardeep or Hardip Chatrath, my father's younger brother. He was called Billa as he had very light eyes. While the others, stunned by the blow of partition, were still struggling to start life af...
Venice Film Festival is one of the most prestigious annual film festival of the world. While going through the newspaper this morning I came across a small item about a film on 'Hind Rajab' gettting a big ovation. The mention of 'hind' made me go deeper into the story. The Times of India, September 5, 2025. In 2025, the film The Voice of Hind Rajab by Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania had its world premiere on Wednesday in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival . It shattered all previous records by receiving a 23 minute long standing ovation. It follows the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who lived in the Gaza Strip and was killed by the IDF during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip The film recounts ...
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