The other founding father of the nation had his folk artistic treatment. First there was Jinnah’s birthday cake in December, and now there is this rather splendid sculpture of Iqbal in a Lahore public park. The first still makes me laugh, but the second I rather like, and thought it was rather lovely that it was made by the municipality gardeners. I hope they don’t bring it down, but statues typically don’t do well in Pakistan.
