Majid Sheikh
By understanding the reason monuments were created for, we might strongly feel the reasons they should be conserved and restored.
Updated 10 Aug, 2022 08:40am
Of the 12 gates and a ‘mori’ of the old Walled City of Lahore, the one gate and the ‘hole in the wall’ on ...
Published 07 Aug, 2022 06:26am
It seems Lahore is much larger than what our imagination allows us to fathom. When one travels to faraway places, in...
Published 31 Jul, 2022 07:25am
To truly understand the working of ancient, and old, Lahore, it might be a useful exercise to walk through two lanes...
Published 17 Jul, 2022 07:04am
In our school and college days we used to walk every evening from our house on Rattigan Road to Charing Cross on The...
Published 13 Jul, 2022 05:03am
Finally amidst the mind-boggling mist of Punjab politics and inflation-related social tension, the long battle to...
Published 03 Jul, 2022 07:22am
We like to describe the Lahore Fort as one of our finest historical monuments, for within it are contained several...
Published 26 Jun, 2022 07:19am
History is all about the people, places, things and faces of a land. In books and columns you will read about the...
Published 19 Jun, 2022 07:14am
Do we ever learn from our history? The last few pieces on ancient Lahore, and Punjab, elicited some amazing...
Published 05 Jun, 2022 03:50am
Vesak Day, the birth anniversary of the Buddha, was held two weeks ago and at Taxila’s Mohra Moradu Stupa a lot...
Published 29 May, 2022 06:56am
Sometimes the remarks of our parents, or elders, stick in the mind right till the end. It is like traditional wisdom...
Published 22 May, 2022 07:01am
Every day my wife watches television dramas before sleeping, which is invariably followed by a deep serious...
Published 08 May, 2022 07:22am
In the midst of all the confusion that is part of Lahore and Punjab life and politics, the world of academics ambles...
Published 03 May, 2022 06:59am
Almost over half a century ago when as schoolchildren, from our Masson Road house we would set off in gangs to...
Published 24 Apr, 2022 04:44am
Of recent there has been a renewed interest in the epic ‘Mahabharata’, especially given its new interpretation ...
Published 17 Apr, 2022 07:40am
Many years ago when visiting a Berkeley University library dedicated to South Asian publications, I was shown a few...
Published 10 Apr, 2022 04:51am
The political drama unfolding before our readers these days is merely politicians of various reputations, all ...
Published 03 Apr, 2022 07:32am
There are so many amazing stories of old Lahore that seem to be lost to the collective memory of the new expanded...
Updated 27 Mar, 2022 07:56am
On the 2nd of September 1951, the very first fleet of six Leyland double-decker buses were lined up outside the...
Published 24 Mar, 2022 07:03am
We all know the names Lawrence, Montgomery, MacLeod, Durand, Davies, Egerton, Aitchison, Rivaz and Dane as the names...
Published 13 Mar, 2022 07:10am
