Majid Sheikh
One of the most important issues in our lives, as also to the rest of the world, is that of migration – both inward...
Published 03 Dec, 2023 07:07am
Since time immemorial people, no matter where they live or have lived, celebrate events to remind themselves that...
Published 26 Nov, 2023 07:04am
In the Mughal history of Akbar’s Lahore, there is nothing more mysterious than the missing masterpiece on the...
Published 19 Nov, 2023 07:12am
Over the ages Lahore has been ransacked, looted and the local population massacred several times. Be it from the...
Published 12 Nov, 2023 06:59am
One of the most sought-after questions, and an important one at that, which readers email me about concerns the age...
Published 05 Nov, 2023 06:33am
In the beautiful Lahore Fort’s Shish Mahal quadrangle, the powerful inner circle of the Lahore Darbar of Maharajah...
Published 29 Oct, 2023 07:02am
Invariably it is priests who dream of power over people, then aspire to acquire their wealth, and as history tells ...
Published 22 Oct, 2023 07:14am
In the history of military rule, there seems to be a universal pattern that needs to be studied. What better than ...
Published 15 Oct, 2023 06:39am
The notion that Lahore was named after Prince Lava, the eldest fair son of Rama, has set many readers writing in to...
Published 08 Oct, 2023 07:24am
We all know of Jahangir the Mughal emperor, as well as his 12th wife Nur Jehan, and also of her elder brother Asaf...
Published 02 Oct, 2023 07:00am
Once Maharajah Ranjit Singh had conquered Multan, he declared that his forces were ‘lions’, and ordered that...
Published 27 Sep, 2023 06:56am
At long last there is a move … call it a plan … call it a wish … to rebuild the 13 gateways of the old Walled...
Published 10 Sep, 2023 07:49am
In Lahore’s Mughal era, the name of Mariyam Zamani the queen of Akbar and high seas shipbuilder and her mosque...
Published 03 Sep, 2023 07:00am
In my youth my father taught me that to understand a city or place there was only one way it is done best … that ...
Published 27 Aug, 2023 07:06am
Last week I wanted to discuss with a senior serving professor of Lahore the probability of teaching the history of...
Published 20 Aug, 2023 07:37am
One of the drawbacks of regular columnists, even distinguished writers, is that they tend to miss the obvious. As ...
Published 13 Aug, 2023 06:49am
If one told you that it was quite common for slave girls to be auctioned in Lahore by the invading rulers, ...
Published 06 Aug, 2023 06:59am
The saying that “you can get a person out of Lahore, but never Lahore out of a person”. Given my recent...
Published 23 Jul, 2023 05:25am
It was interesting to see in our national newspapers that Buddhist priests were visiting their holy sites. They were...
Published 16 Jul, 2023 06:58am
It was a surprise to learn, thanks to my cousin Saulat Saeed, that the house where we lived in Lover’s Lane on...
Published 02 Jul, 2023 07:00am
