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Beyond shiny houses — Lahore’s story

A security guard sits reluctantly on a chair at the entrance to this village. He is wearing a light blue shirt with navy blue pants. There is a cap on his head and a barrier next to him. The barrier, the chair, the cap and the guard, are all out of place here. .........

 

In India's Punjab, Haley relatives

NEW DELHI Nikki Haley may have been born in the United States but her extended family back in India is thrilled that the South Carolina governor has been named by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ....

Al-Biruni -was he an Empirical Scientist?

Abu Rehan al-Biruni (973-1048) was a distinguished scientist of Afghanistan in the 11th century. He is described as founder of Indology, father of geodesy, founder of the discipline of comparative ......

A tale of two cities

Images of panicked refugees on trains during Partition retain a very personal poignance for the author and others whose families were displaced....

Requiem for an ordinary life

In remembering a beloved relative, Parvez Mahmood ended up telling the story of his family – of survival under colonialism, war, mass migration and the glaring inequalities of independent Pakistan ...

Picking up the pieces

In this peoples’ history of post-Partition Lahore, Parvez Mahmood depicts his family rebuilding their lives after their 1947 migration from Amritsar ...

‘Manto’s lunatic’: My Punjab has no border, no limits

InA poem of mine devoted to my homeland goes thus: “Punjab mera tan Duniya jidda, Punjab mera anhadd hai; iss vich sabho darya vehndey (My Punjab is as big as the whole world, it has no borders no limits; all the rivers flow in it). ...

Herald Exclusive: In conversation with Raza Kazim

Raza Kazim is a lawyer, philosopher and political activist. He is also the inventor of a musical instrument called Saagar Veena and a photographer of international standards. He is a lapsed Marxist — he prefers to call himself a post-Marxist. One of the top lawyers in the country, y...