Parvez Mahmood on the contested past of the Sunehri Mosque in Lahore, and its place in the Walled City today

Parvez Mahmood recalls his encounters with poet Saghar Siddiqui

Parvez Mahmood gives us an idea of the scale of British opium trade with China

Parvez Mahmood on a memorable childhood - growing up in the lively, rough and evergreen heart of Lahore in the...

Parvez Mahmood recalls how his skills at kite-flying and his 'kapi' (copy) for stamps got him through the most important...

Parvez Mahmood tells the story of Princess Nadira Banu Begum - beloved and loyal companion of the ill-fated Prince Dara...

Did the East India Company win a foothold in India because a doctor was at the right place at the...

Parvez Mahmood paints a portrait of an unlikely but enduring friendship, in writing about poet, collector and lifelong adventurer Orooj...

Parvez Mahmood recounts the struggles of a father of limited resources to get his children an education in a young...

In this peoples' history of post-Partition Lahore, Parvez Mahmood depicts his family rebuilding their lives after their 1947 migration from...

Parvez Mahmood on how the fact of European primacy at sea was brought home to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in a...

Parvez Mahmood writes about his horror at the state of the famed Mariyam uz Zamani Mosque in Lahore

In remembering a beloved relative, Parvez Mahmood ended up telling the story of his family - of survival under colonialism,...

Parvez Mahmood's family was among the millions to experience the displacement of Partition. The trauma is still alive