KARACHI, Dec 8: Fifty-one students received their graduation degrees at the eighth convocation of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture on Saturday.

Fifteen students received their graduation degrees in the discipline of architecture, 16 in communication design, 15 in textile design and six in fine arts.

The executive director of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Shahid Aziz Siddiqi, introduced the guest speaker of the function, Fatima Surraya Bajia.

He told the audience that Bajia was the daughter of a family of government officials, poets, scientists and philosophers who had been educated at home, studying English, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, mathematics, history, geography, religious education, painting, riding and marksmanship.

“After release from her private tutors, she would be trained in cooking, clothes dyeing and tailoring and other related arts of home making. Finally this was all given the overcoat of the cultural norms of the Muslim Shurfaa of South Asia by training in posture, the proper way of sitting, eating and sleeping and the art of conversation,” he said.

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