An Article by Aminah Suhail Qureshi While looking at “Homage to the Square” by Josef Albers, I just wondered what he must have been thinking back in 1963 while creating this simplistic yet an intricate piece of art – a square within a square in…
The dawns I witnessed here while living on this piece of land are pellucidly different and distinct from those I have witnessed in the earlier years of my life. Every day’s aurora cannot be unvaried only because it is the first light of just another…
Ahmad Sirhindi is most popularly known as ‘Mujaddid Alf Thani’, the title which accredits him of being the ‘reviver of the second millennium’ as he rejuvenated Islam and showed opposition against the heresies introduced by Jalal-ud-din Akbar. Forsooth, Majid Nizami can aptly be remembered as…
In the April of 1955, Lahore was shaken by an extraordinary event and for a few dizzying days, residents from the City of Gardens converged on the railway station to catch a glimpse of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous pair - Ava Gardner and Stewart…
Actor Om Prakash was born in Koocha Beli Ram inside walled City of Lahore, on 19th January 1919, started his career at All India Radio - Lahore, with his famous character "Fatih Din" which was liked through out the Punjb and people started recognizing him…
Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr (13 April 1893 – 16 November 1971) was a journalist, historian, biographer, researcher, translator, poet, scholar of Ghalib and Iqbal and an editor who played a very distinct role in shaping the public opinion during an all-important period of pre-independence. He…
Project Lahore: telling a story pictorially by Ishtiaq Ahmad / DailyTimes. Siddique Shahzad and Qasim Khan's devotion to Lahore testifies to the abiding attraction of the tall Punjabi boast: Jinai Lahore naheen vaikhaya, O jamaye hee nahin I am not sure if any city on…
Fatima Jinnah was a Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer, stateswoman and one of the leading founders of Pakistan. After obtaining a dental degree from University of Calcutta, she became a close associate and an adviser to her older brother Muhammad Ali Jinnah who later became the…
Apart from the walled city and some Mughal buildings that existed earlier, the rest of the city was built in terms of what he designed. He designed the Chiefs College (Aitchison College), Lahore Museum, the Mayo School of Arts (National College of Arts), Punjab University…
Dildar Pervaiz Bhatti ( 30 November 1948 – 30 October 1994) was a leading TV, Radio Punjabi compere and announcer, and a teacher by profession with a Master's in English literature. He became lecturer of English literature at MAO College Lahore, later growing very famous both…