Lata’s Legend: As A Subcontinent Experienced It
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, as we walked along the busy Ginza street in Tokyo, I suddenly stopped in my ...
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Tag: Memory
A Bicycle-Riding Angrez in Peshawar
DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN REMEMBERS PESHAWAR’S EMINENT EDUCATIONIST H.M. CLOSE
The Hospital that Began with a Fall from a Horse
DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN on the story of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital and his own memories of it
Conversations with Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar aka Yousaf Khan, a Bollywood legend and a humanitarian par excellence, died on the 7th of July, 2021, ...
Finding Nirvana in Nathiagali
Nathiagali is a charming little mountain town nestled in the Western fringes of the Pakistani Himalayas. At 9,000 feet, it ...
Scholar Forgotten by the Ummah: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
This is the story of a man who was born into privilege, excelled in studies, served as a high government ...
Peshawar and the Subcontinent’s First Radio Station
Hard as it may be for some to believe, the first radio station in undivided India was established at Peshawar! ...
Robert Owen at 250: Prophet of New Harmony
Robert Owen (1771 – 1858), a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement, was born in Wales 250 years ...
My Father and Shakespeare
My father used to love taking us to a lovely bakery in Clifton to order our birthday cakes when we ...
Two Bridges, Two Officers and the Shadow of Tsarist Russia
It is a tale of two bridges. One, a real one and the other a bridge on a movie set. ...
Reconstructing the Past One Photo or Artifact at a Time
The Bard of Avon had famously said that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Occasionally, ...
A Tale of Two Water Carriers
Water carriers (called behishti, maashik and saqqa) are men who carry water in animal skins on their backs. In an ...
Nafees Mahmood – In Appreciation
Never was a name more suited to its owner: Nafees she was, in person and personality, in character and constancy ...
Red Rosa at 150
ROSA LUXEMBURG WAS THE PRESCIENT SOCIALIST WHO FORESAW THE BARBARIANISM OF THE PRESENT, WRITES RAZA NAEEM
Good Noon, Mr. Close
BY DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN
White Cliffs of Dover and Khairabad Skyline
BY DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN
Death of Captain John Anderson, Bengal Artillery
BY MAJOR GENERAL SYED ALI HAMID
Little Railway Station at Pabbi
BY DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN
Muraqqa-i-Chughtai and the Folio of Beaumont and Fletcher
BY DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN
Chota London and a song of sorrow and lament
By Dr Sayed Amjad Hussain
The Elections that Broke a Country – III
Raza Naeem on the hopes and disappointments of 1970
The Cyclone that led to Bangladesh – II
Raza Naeem on a fateful disaster, worsened by neglect and inequality
The Cyclone that led to Bangladesh – I
Raza Naeem on a fateful disaster, worsened by neglect and inequality
Devout Aesthete of Moradabad
He was a quiet man who preferred to be alone than in crowds; who towards the end of his years ...
Remembering Colonel Abdul Qayyum
Major General Syed Ali Hamid tells the story of one man’s pledge of allegiance, which held firm through a bitter ...
Malik Sartaj Wali Khan 1922-2014
Shehla Ahmed Khan continues her family saga with a sketch of Buddan Sahab
News and views which are not fit to print.
When Hope Is Lost By The Shortage Of Leadership
This is a bleak time for Pakistan –...
Shireen Mazari Presented Before Islamabad High Court Close To Midnight, CJ Minallah Orders Release
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shireen Mazari, who was...