Stories by Majid Sheikh
In 1928 when the riots against the Simon Commission Report started, outside Anarkali Bazaar at Nila Gumbad, the...
Published 30 Nov, 2025 06:39am
Can you imagine the ruler of a country – a Mughal emperor – throwing out his finance minister and then asking ...
Published 23 Nov, 2025 07:58am
LAHORE: Academic and writer Prof Razi Abedi passed away after a protracted illness here on Saturday. He was 92...
Published 16 Nov, 2025 05:47am
Lahore for over 700 years was a Buddhist city, only for the entire population to be murdered and burnt to the ground...
Published 16 Nov, 2025 05:47am
It might come as a surprise to many that the now missing ‘Taxali’ gateway was almost two thousand years ago...
Published 02 Nov, 2025 06:36am
It has always been a point of concern that of the seven times Lahore has been destroyed, just why did Babur do it ...
Published 26 Oct, 2025 06:57am
It is disturbing to the average mind of Lahore when one learns that nearly 60 per cent of the old walled city...
Published 19 Oct, 2025 08:13am
This piece is not about the recent troubles in and around Zaman Park of Lahore and our incarcerated cricket hero but...
Published 05 Oct, 2025 07:09am
Do we really know about ourselves? As a people we are well over 20,000 years since settling on the riverbanks, let...
Published 28 Sep, 2025 04:20am
It might surprise many a reader that the initial Mughal rulers of Lahore had never seen a red ‘chilli’, or even ...
Published 21 Sep, 2025 05:38am
The Lahore Railway Station, historic that it is, has scores of amazing incidents related to it. Each one tying into...
Published 14 Sep, 2025 07:23am
A fortnight ago as I roamed the streets of old walled Lahore, I sat down with a ‘hakeem’ inside Bhati Gate. He...
Published 08 Sep, 2025 06:19am
To my mind the most important historic undertaking in Lahore, in the Punjab and for that matter in Pakistan, is the...
Published 01 Sep, 2025 04:42am
Last week I was reading about how the African slaves of the USA were treated. With each page the unbelievable horror...
Published 24 Aug, 2025 08:11am
As we study the origins of Lahore, it is clear that the city developed because of the famines and floods that hit...
Published 18 Aug, 2025 05:33am
If there was a person as far removed from literary archives of the Punjab, it surely was Maharajah Kharrak Singh. ...
Published 11 Aug, 2025 05:49am
As one explores the endless details of the history of Lahore – it’s people, place, things and faces as Carl ...
Updated 03 Aug, 2025 11:41am
Once the Arabs after their 7th century religious ‘awakening’ spread in every direction, it was interesting to note that the highly
Published 29 Jul, 2025 10:05am
In 1972 as young Ravians, with my oldest nursery-days friend Asad Rehman, we set off on foot of all things to reach...
Published 21 Jul, 2025 05:28am
It is interesting to note that three different educational research institutions – two of Lahore and one of ...
Published 06 Jul, 2025 07:54am
