Destruction of Lahore’s Walled City is rampant as restoration efforts remain sketchy
One of my three reports published earlier this year in Herald’s annual issue on heritage Lahore fabled Walled City is now a grand metaphor…
پنجاب کے دل لاہور پر انڈر ورلڈ کا قبضہ،یہ گینگز کتنے طاقتور اور بااثر ہیں؟ جانیے اس ویڈیو میں
– لاہور شہر میں انڈر ورلڈ ڈانز کا راج ختم نہیں ہو سکا ہے – سیاسی وابستگیاں، پیسہ اور طاقتور گینگز ان ڈانز کی…
Man doing masturbation in public got arrested
A man was masturbating today on a road in Lahore when a lady filmed him doing it. The police arrested the man, yes. But…
Is the Safe City project making you safer?
Images allegedly captured by Safe City cameras were leaked online. Safe City claims that their cameras only takes pictures of number plates but these…
Raza Rumi: A reading of memory & loss
Blog posting written by Rebecca Cox, Cinema and Photography, 16, FLEFF Intern, Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Of the multiple times I have visited Ithaca College’s intimate…
Even as Lahore limps to normalcy
A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing at least 72 people in a heinous attack in Lahore at a…
Japanese Art in Lahore / Artful Diplomacy
A recent exhibition of Japanese paintings brought the restrained artistry of the orient to Lahore. Review by Raza Rumi A recently held exhibition at…
Lahore’s lost spring
Lahore, a centre for the arts and learning in the early 20th century, has been the custodian of a plural, vibrant culture for decades.…
Book review: “Lahore -Topophilia of Space and Place”
There is no city like Lahore/ Everything that is wrong is set right here It is a mystery as to how a layered city…
Hundreds of decaying historical buildings across Lahore await Attention
Third story for the Herald’s annual heritage issue: Once renowned as a city of gardens and monuments, Lahore now manifests decaying cultural heritage, rampant…
Bleak prospects
My op-ed published in Express-Tribune today It is evident that the Pakistani state faces a crisis of legitimacy and survival. Twelve years ago, on…
Delhi and Lahore – globalised fads and trends
This piece of mine appeared in the Hindustan Times yesterday. An accidental piece it was, written on the request of a friend during my…
‘I belong to Ranjha’ – the syncreticism of Lahore’s Shah Hussain
Lahore, the ancient city of Loh, the age-old halt for invaders, is also the home to eclectic Sufis. Men and women who shed conventions…
Civil society speaks
Zinda dilaan-e-Lahore say no to Talibanisation, reports Raza Rumi Never before have we citizens been traumatised with an uncertain future and the knocks of…
We shall overcome the trap of violence
As clouds of war hover in the skies of Lahore, I am missing Delhi and lamenting the relatively difficult venture to visit the city.…
Unfullfiled Civic Longing
Written for The Friday Times, Pakistan After Mumbai, I have stopped watching television. I will not participate in the senseless jingoism of the Indo-Pak…
Data Ganj Baksh: Lahore’s oldest guide
Perhaps the greatest of the experiences at Data Darbar is to find oneself connected to a stream of humanity, shoulder to shoulder, with a…
Living Lohawarana – a Lahori rambling
My piece for Himal Magazine’s October issue There was a Lahore that I grew up in, and then there is the Lahore that I…
Living Histories
Essences of the past and present come alive at the Lawrence Gardens Lahores Lawrence Gardens, baptised the Bagh-i-Jinnah in the post-independence era, represent the…
Amrita Shergil’s Lahore
Khalid Hasan writing for the Friday Times: Amrita Sher Gil was once asked by Iqbal Singh, who was to write her biography 43 years…