Majid Sheikh
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
As one goes through various writings on the history of Lahore, one name keeps popping up as a source, and that is ...
Published 29 Sep, 2024 07:12am
When I started my career as a journalist, one of the assignments given was to cover the ‘Zuljanah’ procession...
Published 22 Sep, 2024 07:24am
Of all the people who have time and again – over the centuries - attacked and wished to rule Lahore, no other...
Published 15 Sep, 2024 07:13am
As one researches our past, the question invariably arises just who are we? As one walks through the old walled ...
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:29am
My dear college-day friend Tariq Chaudhry, better known as TC, belongs to Dinga in Gujrat. Whenever we visited him,...
Published 25 Aug, 2024 07:03am
We have been dwelling in detail about the people, place, things and faces of Lahore for the last 22 years. Along the...
Published 18 Aug, 2024 08:10am
‘How do you eat an elephant?’ The answer is bite by bite by bite. So how does one fully conserve and rebuild the...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 08:31am
It is ironic, if not sad, that a majority of people visiting historical monuments and sites have very little idea of...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 07:53am
