Majid Sheikh
The telephone rang early in the morning. At the other end was a very old school days friend who was in a Karachi...
Published 06 Oct, 2024 07:43am
As one goes through various writings on the history of Lahore, one name keeps popping up as a source, and that is ...
Published 29 Sep, 2024 07:12am
When I started my career as a journalist, one of the assignments given was to cover the ‘Zuljanah’ procession...
Published 22 Sep, 2024 07:24am
Of all the people who have time and again – over the centuries - attacked and wished to rule Lahore, no other...
Published 15 Sep, 2024 07:13am
As one researches our past, the question invariably arises just who are we? As one walks through the old walled ...
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:29am
My dear college-day friend Tariq Chaudhry, better known as TC, belongs to Dinga in Gujrat. Whenever we visited him,...
Published 25 Aug, 2024 07:03am
We have been dwelling in detail about the people, place, things and faces of Lahore for the last 22 years. Along the...
Published 18 Aug, 2024 08:10am
‘How do you eat an elephant?’ The answer is bite by bite by bite. So how does one fully conserve and rebuild the...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 08:31am
It is ironic, if not sad, that a majority of people visiting historical monuments and sites have very little idea of...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 07:53am
A lot of our readers pose the question ‘Just how can we best save and conserve the old walled city?’ My answer...
Published 28 Jul, 2024 07:29am
Many a scholar, surprisingly, think that the Sikh era started in 1799 with the arrival of Ranjit Singh of the...
Published 21 Jul, 2024 06:56am
When Imran Bhatti died last week on July 7, 2024, it brought back many a thought to a subject I have researched...
Published 14 Jul, 2024 07:30am
The fame of Lahore over the ages has rested on its people and their intelligence and tolerance. As different belief...
Published 07 Jul, 2024 07:34am
Last week as my dear friend Sheero from the walled city set off on a break to the Neelum Valley, he messaged to know...
Published 30 Jun, 2024 07:34am
We all know about the great Lahore painter Abdur Rahman Chughtai of Kucha Chabakswaran, as also we know about...
Published 23 Jun, 2024 07:22am
Flying from Cambridge to Vienna for just one day might sound crazy, but when you are booked for an elite classical...
Published 16 Jun, 2024 07:03am
The national poet Allama Iqbal quoting a ‘hadith’ told the Italian dictator Mussolini that “when a city ...
Published 09 Jun, 2024 07:31am
In the days of Z.A. Bhutto, when the obscure grave of the great ruler of Slave Dynasty, Qutbuddin Aibak, lay in an...
Published 02 Jun, 2024 06:53am
The common belief about the arrival in Lahore of the Islamic faith is normally tied to Mahmud, the Turko-Afghan...
Published 26 May, 2024 06:42am
In this age of communal religiosity most people cannot comprehend the fact that in Lahore over the last 2,000 plus...
Published 19 May, 2024 07:37am
