Tag: Memoir

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

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 ...

The late Mairaj Muhammad Khan recalls taking on the Ayub regime: in his own words, interviewed and transcribed by Faisal ...

The late Mairaj Muhammad Khan on his years as a firebrand student leader, in his own words - interviewed and ...

The late Mairaj Muhammad Khan on his early, formative years, in his own words - transcribed by Faisal Sayani

Shemeem Burney Abbas revisits her husband's final message, written before he died in 1965 – a soldier's indictment of Operation ...

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

Ishtiaq Ahmed shares the testimony and lived experience of Partition from left-wing artist Rana Muhammad Azhar Khan

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

Natasha Fatah tells a tale of quite courage - based on annual family portraits

Concluding this series about the film, Akbar Ahmed reminisces about Sir Christopher Lee - as a lead actor, a champion ...

Jinnah was a struggle, from its conception to its making. Akbar Ahmed remembers two Jimmy's, Shashi Kapoor and all those ...

This month, Pakistan will remember, among other horrendous tragedies, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Akbar Ahmed reminisces about her generosity, ...

The odds were always stacked against Jinnah. Akbar Ahmed recalls the challenges involved in making the film and how the ...

Suljuk Mustansar Tarar reminisces about the close friendship between two renowned writers of Urdu literature - his father Mustansar Hussain ...

With a hilarious anecdote Syed Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari captures the irrepressible spirit of freedom that flourished at the end of ...

Shazaf Fatima Haider on the lost fine art of practical jokes

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur traces the political intrigues and strange twists of his father and paternal uncle's illustrious lives

In this excerpt from his autobiography the first director general of Radio Pakistan, Z A Bukhari, narrates the tale of ...

In his critically acclaimed autobiography, Sarguzasht ZA Bukhari, the distinguished Urdu broadcaster and first Director General of Radio Pakistan, tells ...

“Of fragrance and color, beauty and goodness The metaphors all began and ended in you” – Faiz (Translation: Musharraf Ali ...

Indu Mitha, one of Zohra Sehgal's students, recounts the fortuitous turns in her famous teacher's rich and varied career

To the accompaniment of poetry, songs and stories, Raza Rumi spent a bittersweet evening with fellow-exiles, exploring the state of ...

As the teetotalling Pakistani Ambassador to Moldova, Nazar Abbas had to exercise all his diplomatic faculties at the country's internationally ...

Ambassador Nazar Abbas was caught up between the internal feuds of the PPP Government during his tenure in Kyrgyzstan