Majid Sheikh
The news that a beautiful Mughal-era 395-year old small bridge, built on the orders of the Emperor Jahangir as it...
Published 27 Feb, 2022 07:07am
It seems like an unavoidable happening when modern developments threaten our heritage, our peaceful way of life, and...
Published 20 Feb, 2022 07:03am
The Walled City of Lahore, or should we say the ‘once-walled’ city of Lahore, has met its ups and downs over the...
Published 13 Feb, 2022 09:35am
As you enter Lahore’s walled city’s Mochi Gate and head towards Mohallah Shian, a lane turns inwards to what is...
Published 06 Feb, 2022 07:03am
So the Walled City of Lahore Authority is now committed – to assist they claim - to conserve and repair numerous...
Published 30 Jan, 2022 07:11am
In the coming week the British House of Lords is set to pass a bill that will permit the police to arrest and jail...
Published 16 Jan, 2022 06:58am
If you walk down Zaildar Road in Ichhra, you cannot miss a house with an old car framed behind windows. This is the...
Published 09 Jan, 2022 07:07am
An increasing number of readers of this column seem to be increasingly interested in the pre-Islamic Lahore. This is...
Published 02 Jan, 2022 07:06am
Just how do we determine who the very first Muslim inhabitants and invaders of Lahore were? Most believe that come...
Published 26 Dec, 2021 07:00am
A few days ago a news item on the front page of this newspaper about Lahore having the highest number of domestic...
Published 19 Dec, 2021 07:04am
As we study Lahore, the city so adored and yet so ignored by us, we come across some amazing descriptions by the...
Published 13 Dec, 2021 06:38am
Just why did old Lahore have walls, why did it once have a moat surrounding it, what happened to its drawbridges, ...
Published 05 Dec, 2021 07:00am
Such has become our mindset that we have ceased to analyse historical events outside our ‘official’ narrative....
Published 21 Nov, 2021 06:35am
Almost 50 years ago my oldest school and college friend Asad Rehman and I set off to hitch-hike to London and back....
Published 14 Nov, 2021 07:12am
Last week we examined the two 40-year rules of Lahore rulers, namely of Vikramaditya Chandragupta II (373AD –...
Published 07 Nov, 2021 07:02am
The basics of power know no religion or country or human species or time. Circumstances dictate outcomes, so...
Published 31 Oct, 2021 07:04am
Last week as I sat on the steps of Masjid Wazir Khan with its tilting minaret behind me, and pondered over just what...
Published 24 Oct, 2021 06:23am
In the work of conservation, rebuilding and, most importantly, of maintenance of the old walled city of Lahore, we...
Published 17 Oct, 2021 06:38am
A fortnight ago the current Punjab chief minister, as also other relevant persons and bureaucrats met to agree on...
Published 10 Oct, 2021 06:35am
Almost ten years ago the Aga Khan Trust for Culture completed the Gali Surjan Singh restoration ‘demonstration’...
Published 03 Oct, 2021 07:09am
