Footprints: Worth its weight in salt

JUST as I’m getting ready to jet off to Japan for the Expo 2025 Osaka, Noorjehan Bilgrami gives me a call and offers two primary instructions. I listen studiously.

Bilgrami is a woman of many talents and, after her curatorial success at the Expo 2020 in Dubai, which resulted in the much-lauded Pakistan Pavilion bagging the Silver Award, she is now at the helm of Pakistan’s latest endeavour at the newest iteration of the Expo. The question is: can she capture lightning in a bottle twice?