The Mayo School of Industrial Art was set up in 1875 to perpetuate the memory of Lord Mayo, the British Viceroy of India, who was assassinated in 1872, was among the pioneer colonial art schools established in British India, besides the art schools in Calcutta,…
Amrita Pritam born as Amrita Kaur in a traditional Sikh family of undivided Punjab in 1919, in Gujranwala and brought up in Lahore, She was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet…
The biggest, or perhaps the best known, festival of Lahore, is that of Basant (or Jashn-e-Baharaan) held in February each year. Basant is a Punjabi festival celebrating the onset of the spring season and is also called the Basant Festival of kites. This festival is…
Rajinder Singh Bedi, a progressive Urdu writer, playwright, screenwriter, dialogue writer and a Hindi film director. was born in Lahore on 1 September 1915, to a Khatri father Hera Singh Bedi and Brahman mother Sewa Dei. His father was in service of General POst Office…
Historical Pak Tea House - Lahore Pak Tea House had remained a favourite sitting place of some of the most celebrated intellectuals of the Subcontinent for many decades since 1932 (then India Tea House). Among the literary personalities who used to visit the Pak Tea…
An institute himself, Mr. Ali Sufyan Afaqi (b: 22 August 1933 - d: 27 January 2015) has inspired generations of journalists/story writers and travelogue writers to aspire for the highest standards of professional excellence. Born in Sehore District of central Indian Muslim majority state of…
Why was Lahore called the gem of India? - “That it indeed was,” Pran Nevile a citizen of Lahore before partition and writer of "Lahore - A Sentimental Journey". He is an authority on pre-1947 Lahore replied. “It was totally different from the rest of…
A Society originally laid down as the concept of a "Garden Town" having "Agricultural Farm", "Vegetable Garden" and "Fruits Garden", a dream of Dewan Khem Chand. In 1921 when about 200 persons assembled in Lahore's Town Hall under the chairmanship of Sir Ganga Ram and…
Lahore Memories - LM017: Lahore Ki Yadien Narated by: Surinder Nath Passey. Born in Gali Shishe Motian in 1930. Brought up in Kucha Seth Har Parsad. This Kucha was opposite Dai Bholi Gali and could be approached from Mati Da Chowk. Our house could be…
People of Lahore from the Book ""The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan" published London circa 1868-1875 in 8 volumes. Remarkably comprehensive photographically-illustrated ethnographic study of India. The project was begun on…