Majid Sheikh
We all know about Maharajah Ranjit Singh, his son Maharajah Kharak Singh and his grandson Maharajah Nau Nihal Singh...
Published 25 Apr, 2021 06:31am
As one write about the missing walls and gateways of old Lahore, a lot of friends wish that I compare it with other...
Published 18 Apr, 2021 06:56am
The most influential queen of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, and mother of Emperor Jahangir, was the beautiful Empress...
Published 11 Apr, 2021 07:04am
When we see the arrival of Portuguese Jesuit priests in large numbers at the court of Akbar’s court in Lahore, we...
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:42am
The need to write this column arose after social media splashed photographs of Gali Surjan Singh, just off Kucha...
Published 14 Mar, 2021 06:55am
Lahore has a history spread over thousands of years, but very few narrations dwell on the people themselves, on ...
Published 07 Mar, 2021 06:54am
Yesterday (Saturday) the amazing Ajoka Theatre of Lahore staged a reading of a translation of the play ‘Porus’ ...
Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:02am
Once upon a time in the late Vedic period, as the epic Rigveda (book 7:83-4-8) tells us, there were dense forests...
Published 14 Feb, 2021 06:53am
Just how should our historic sites ‘experts’ proceed with the three basic Unesco steps of treating...
Published 07 Feb, 2021 07:47am
Last Monday the once ‘legendary’ Punjab police issued a press release that after five years of constant “below...
Published 31 Jan, 2021 07:04am
Many moons ago I had the pleasure of leaving with Syed Babar Ali from his Bazaar Hakeeman house in his car. As we...
Published 24 Jan, 2021 06:43am
Just how old is Lahore? This is a question that boggles not only the minds of its dwellers, as well as those who ...
Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:54am
Many scholars and ‘pen-pusher’ think that the Sikh era started in 1799 with the arrival of Ranjit Singh of the...
Published 10 Jan, 2021 09:10am
We will always remember 2020 as the year Covid struck. With a number of vaccines on the horizon it seems better ...
Published 03 Jan, 2021 07:29am
The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has announced formation of a ‘master plan,’ titled Lahore 2050. After a...
Published 27 Dec, 2020 07:04am
The other morning as I scanned on the internet for the usual five or six newspapers every morning, a very ...
Published 20 Dec, 2020 06:56am
"Maharajah had decided it was the religious duty of Sikhs in the area to get up early morning to awaken all Muslims for prayers."
Published 14 Dec, 2020 02:10pm
Few historic monuments in the Walled City have as colourful a history as the one at the corner of the junction where...
Published 14 Dec, 2020 06:59am
And so it was that Syeda Begum returned to her father’s house in Kucha Chabakswaran, inside Mochi Gate, a widow at...
Published 30 Nov, 2020 07:42am
Lahore has a long history of exclusive clubs, whose probable origin lies in the literary ‘bhatik’ tradition of...
Published 29 Nov, 2020 06:53am
