Majid Sheikh
Yesterday (Saturday) the amazing Ajoka Theatre of Lahore staged a reading of a translation of the play ‘Porus’ ...
Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:02am
Once upon a time in the late Vedic period, as the epic Rigveda (book 7:83-4-8) tells us, there were dense forests...
Published 14 Feb, 2021 06:53am
Just how should our historic sites ‘experts’ proceed with the three basic Unesco steps of treating...
Published 07 Feb, 2021 07:47am
Last Monday the once ‘legendary’ Punjab police issued a press release that after five years of constant “below...
Published 31 Jan, 2021 07:04am
Many moons ago I had the pleasure of leaving with Syed Babar Ali from his Bazaar Hakeeman house in his car. As we...
Published 24 Jan, 2021 06:43am
Just how old is Lahore? This is a question that boggles not only the minds of its dwellers, as well as those who ...
Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:54am
Many scholars and ‘pen-pusher’ think that the Sikh era started in 1799 with the arrival of Ranjit Singh of the...
Published 10 Jan, 2021 09:10am
We will always remember 2020 as the year Covid struck. With a number of vaccines on the horizon it seems better ...
Published 03 Jan, 2021 07:29am
The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has announced formation of a ‘master plan,’ titled Lahore 2050. After a...
Published 27 Dec, 2020 07:04am
The other morning as I scanned on the internet for the usual five or six newspapers every morning, a very ...
Published 20 Dec, 2020 06:56am
"Maharajah had decided it was the religious duty of Sikhs in the area to get up early morning to awaken all Muslims for prayers."
Published 14 Dec, 2020 02:10pm
Few historic monuments in the Walled City have as colourful a history as the one at the corner of the junction where...
Published 14 Dec, 2020 06:59am
And so it was that Syeda Begum returned to her father’s house in Kucha Chabakswaran, inside Mochi Gate, a widow at...
Published 30 Nov, 2020 07:42am
Lahore has a long history of exclusive clubs, whose probable origin lies in the literary ‘bhatik’ tradition of...
Published 29 Nov, 2020 06:53am
Have you ever considered just how over a three-month period the British rulers of Lahore massacred almost 5,650...
Published 22 Nov, 2020 07:20am
Even till the late 1960s two major activities made up life inside the old walled city. Women borrowed and read books...
Published 08 Nov, 2020 07:32am
One of the popular myths about ancient Lahore’s old city is that all the garbage and waste water was thrown in the...
Published 01 Nov, 2020 07:25am
As we remember different areas and people of Lahore, we tend to forget the relatively poorer areas today that were...
Published 18 Oct, 2020 07:12am
The story of Lahore in the colonial period, in my view, is a most ignored period. It is almost as if we have a...
Published 11 Oct, 2020 07:00am
Often the question does prop up in the mind ‘just how much has Lahore changed over the last 70 years?’. Then...
Published 04 Oct, 2020 08:12am