Majid Sheikh
Have you ever considered just how over a three-month period the British rulers of Lahore massacred almost 5,650...
Published 22 Nov, 2020 07:20am
Even till the late 1960s two major activities made up life inside the old walled city. Women borrowed and read books...
Published 08 Nov, 2020 07:32am
One of the popular myths about ancient Lahore’s old city is that all the garbage and waste water was thrown in the...
Published 01 Nov, 2020 07:25am
As we remember different areas and people of Lahore, we tend to forget the relatively poorer areas today that were...
Published 18 Oct, 2020 07:12am
The story of Lahore in the colonial period, in my view, is a most ignored period. It is almost as if we have a...
Published 11 Oct, 2020 07:00am
Often the question does prop up in the mind ‘just how much has Lahore changed over the last 70 years?’. Then...
Published 04 Oct, 2020 08:12am
Among the numerous colonial era structures on The Mall, none is as old as Tollinton Market, which was built ...
Published 27 Sep, 2020 07:08am
When was the last time you visited the Lahore Museum? A very dear friend - a top art and culture person of the city ...
Published 20 Sep, 2020 06:56am
The ‘capture’ of the famed diamond ‘Koh-i-Noor’ from the Afghan ruler Shah Shuja in Lahore’s Mubarak ...
Published 13 Sep, 2020 06:50am
We live in an age where gender and racial differences are increasingly being questioned, and rightly so. The quantum...
Published 06 Sep, 2020 07:01am
As we research different aspects of Lahore’s history, no one source provides a better look - what to speak of a...
Published 30 Aug, 2020 08:34am
Have no illusions about the old walled city of Lahore – and I say this because it no longer has any walls left. It...
Published 23 Aug, 2020 07:11am
How many of us have ever had a hammam experience? Yes, you might be having a daily bath in the summer, but the...
Published 16 Aug, 2020 07:45am
Last Saturday (yesterday) this newspaper carried two stories next to one another. One that the Ravi Riverside ...
Published 09 Aug, 2020 06:41am
After the death of Aurangzeb in 1709 and the rise of the Sikh Triumvirate (1765) is a 56-year period of utter chaos...
Published 01 Aug, 2020 05:37am
The River Ravi, known thousands of years ago as the Iravati, is synonymous with the ancient Walled City of Lahore....
Published 26 Jul, 2020 07:08am
As Nepal and India ‘battle’ it out to claim ‘original’ ownership of the deity Ram, his wife Sita, and their...
Published 19 Jul, 2020 06:44am
If you walk through the old walled city’s oldest gateway - the Lohari Gate - along the way a lane turns off to the...
Published 05 Jul, 2020 07:03am
We know so much about the rise of the Mughals but little about their fall. We know a lot about the rise of the ...
Published 28 Jun, 2020 06:55am
Very often we pass by amazing structures of historic Lahore without realising its value in the past, and how it...
Published 27 May, 2020 06:34am
