A Flight that Changed the World
On this particular night in July 1971, we were told to to get ready for a 3 AM departure. Pakistan ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Tag: Memoir
Aspiring for the Indian Political Service
MAJOR GENERAL SYED ALI HAMID REFLECTS ON AN UNSUCCESSFUL 1938 ATTEMPT BY HIS FATHER
A Man of No Regrets
Shehla Ahmad Khan on the life and times of her father Shehzad Ahmad Khan (May 6th 1923, Muradabad – November ...
A PIA Pilot at War
Capt. Ejaz Haq shares his recollections of 1971
When Bhutto schemed with Gadaffi in 1974
Javid Ali Khan describes the intense diplomacy by ZAB, as he laid the grounds for Pakistan’s public to accept Bangladesh ...
Debating a Dictator – II
Akbar Ahmed reflects on why he questioned General Zia-ul-Haq on his vision for religion, state and society – at an ...
Debating a Dictator
Akbar Ahmed recalls a time when he couldn’t resist questioning General Zia-ul-Haq on his vision for religion, state and society ...
Getting to know Karachi and Waheed Murad
Javid Ali Khan on how his family, that of Pakistan’s first PM, settled in Karachi during Partition – and how ...
Surviving Delhi during Partition – II
Javid Ali Khan narrates how his family, that of Pakistan’s first PM, had to flee their home as Partition violence ...
Surviving Delhi during Partition – I
Javid Ali Khan narrates how his family, that of Pakistan’s first PM, had to flee their home as Partition violence ...
Farewell to Simla and Karnal
Javid Ali Khan narrates how his family, that of Pakistan's first PM, had to flee their home as Partition violence ...
New Dilli-wallah’s
My father was aspiring to become a lecturer in the newly started medical college in Aligarh, the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical ...
Vestiges of the old world
An extract from 'Biswin Sadi Memoirs - Growing up in Delhi during the 1960s and '70s' by Jamil Urfi
Janab ye biswin sadi hai
An extract from ‘Biswin Sadi Memoirs - Growing up in Delhi during the 1960s and ’70s’ by Jamil Urfi
Going places – II
Parvez Mahmood describes his life in transition from the crowded inner city to an elite cadet school
Going places – I
Parvez Mahmood describes his life in transition from the crowded inner city to an elite cadet school
A mother’s Odyssey
Parvez Mahmood writes about his mother: a tale of the struggle and triumph of a generation uprooted by Partition
A judge’s war
Justice Salahuddin Mirza (retd.) recounts his memories of the 1965 Indo-Pak war, as narrated to Parvez Mahmood
As everything fell apart
Parvez Mahmood was on sentry duty while the country became engulfed in a horrific conflict in 1971
Of air-raids and ants
Parvez Mahmood shares his reminiscences of the 1965 war
A freelance life
Parvez Mahmood paints a portrait of an unlikely but enduring friendship, in writing about poet, collector and lifelong adventurer Orooj ...
Bhutto and the NSF
The late Mairaj Muhammad Khan recalls Bhutto's emergence as a populist 'saviour': in his own words, interviewed and transcribed by ...
Gangs of Gowalmandi
Parvez Mahmood on a memorable childhood - growing up in the lively, rough and evergreen heart of Lahore in the ...
“I fly kites, sir!”
Parvez Mahmood recalls how his skills at kite-flying and his 'kapi' (copy) for stamps got him through the most important ...
Learning the ropes
Parvez Mahmood recounts the struggles of a father of limited resources to get his children an education in a young ...
Picking up the pieces
In this peoples' history of post-Partition Lahore, Parvez Mahmood depicts his family rebuilding their lives after their 1947 migration from ...
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