Majid Sheikh
The Mughal ruler Emperor Akbar is famous for rebuilding Lahore, as also for his ‘wisdom’ as a ruler, amazingly ...
Published 24 Feb, 2025 07:14am
As you walk through Lahore’s old walled city’s Delhi Gate, about 200 yards ahead to the right is a lane turning...
Published 09 Feb, 2025 08:20am
As the philosopher Bertrand Russell said: “A non-believer is one who forsakes the factual history of his ...
Published 02 Feb, 2025 08:22am
In the Mughal period, nearly all the ‘protected’ monuments of Lahore were either in the fort or in the walled...
Published 27 Jan, 2025 06:24am
It is interesting to learn of the large number of slave rulers we have had in Lahore. Slavery as a way of life is...
Published 20 Jan, 2025 06:20am
Both ‘Ichhra’ and ‘Lahore’ formed a few thousand years ago to prevent monsoon floods destroying them — both took their names based on beliefs that prevailed then.
Published 12 Jan, 2025 07:04am
People, places, things and faces … that is what memories are made of. This famous Paul Sagan saying holds true …...
Published 05 Jan, 2025 07:39am
In our college days we loved rowing on the River Ravi and relaxing on the island near Shahdara, and on a hot day...
Published 29 Dec, 2024 07:31am
By the time you read this column, the world will be getting ready for Christmas, the agreed date of birth of the...
Published 22 Dec, 2024 07:07am
It was disturbing to see a once distinguished Urdu newspaper journalist of Lahore working as a small shopkeeper in...
Published 15 Dec, 2024 06:51am
We still call it the walled city, but then it was once walled and walled it was from ancient times … that is till...
Published 08 Dec, 2024 06:54am
A lot of historians wonder just why the Mughal emperor Akbar came to stay in Lahore for 14 years when he had his...
Published 01 Dec, 2024 07:06am
Last Sunday Lahore lost its finest son. He was a silent soul, but when he spoke, in a low measured tone at that, it...
Published 24 Nov, 2024 07:56am
We live in a warped society dictated mostly by our mass illiteracy. Symbols like huge houses, the latest cars and...
Published 17 Nov, 2024 06:59am
If you are a wanderer in the ancient lanes and mohallahs of the old walled city of Lahore, you would surely have...
Published 03 Nov, 2024 06:55am
There is much more to the dead lying in Lahore’s numerous graveyards compared to those living in the city. The...
Published 27 Oct, 2024 07:39am
In history we read about various invasions followed by massacres. Many of these were carried out by Iranian, Arab,...
Published 20 Oct, 2024 07:15am
In history we read about various invasions followed by massacres. Many of these were carried out by Iranian, Arab,...
Published 20 Oct, 2024 07:15am
Every time one visits the Lahore Fort, and as one walks through the Sheesh Mahal, that Mughal wonder of mirrors, to...
Published 13 Oct, 2024 07:15am
The telephone rang early in the morning. At the other end was a very old school days friend who was in a Karachi...
Published 06 Oct, 2024 07:43am
