Nur Jehan – one in a million
One of Madam Nur Jehan’s great regrets, and one she took to her grave in the sandy earth of Karachi, a city she had no feeling for, was that her illness and the insistence of her daughters and doctors had forced her to... Lahore circa 1947
Ahmad Salim, one of our most assiduous research scholars, whose linguistic and poetic work is spread over more than four decades, put together an anthology four years ago which opens a window on Lahore as it was ... Nur Jehan: once and forever queen
Come December and Madam Nur Jehan would have been gone exactly five years and yet it feels like only yesterday when the world learnt that the silver voice of the once and forever queen who had brought so,...Ajoka’s run
Ajoka Theatre has for the last three decades, tirelessly and earnestly struggled to promote the message of social justice, highlighting pressing issues hounding our society. What began as a passion project, consisting ....The price of partition
M S Gill, former Chief Election Commissioner of India and a member of the Rajiah Sabah experienced much that was different and a lot that was the same on this side of the Punjab ...Lahore again after 40 years
The old Lahore was a much more civilised place. The population was smaller, the difference between the rich and poor was not so obscenely obvious. There was more sympathy and concern. Now money matters,...Fight for India Sikh homeland
Abhaya SRIVASTAVA As retailer Sukhdeep Singh visits the Golden Temple in northern India, Sikhism's holiest shrine, he laments the bloodbath 30 years ago that catapulted his religion into controversy. ...The one-room shop in an old building
The story began in Mian Chambers, 3 – Temple Road, Lahore in February 1998, when I was searching for books by Najm Hosain Syed. From Vanguard Books to the old book stalls on the footpaths of Anarkali, I could. All the joy in my language
Lahore by Heart
I don’t ever leave Delhi, without saying goodbye to Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. This time, after the dargah visit we went to the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, a few yards away from my flat. My son Arman Ali, cook Sabir and. ...