In Lahore, food is never merely food. It is memory, migration, performance, class, longing and history carried on ...

Pakistan’s Lahore has started replacing official signboards in the city bearing Islamic names with older Hindu, Sikh, Jain ...

Isn’t Pakistan a country where minorities are denied their rights? Why is an Islamic country embracing old Hindu names? Why ...

LAHORE: Two sessions on the Faiz Festival’s concluding day on Sunday, dedicated to discussion on the heritage and values of Lahore and Punjab veered into nostalgia, with panellists lamenting the loss ...

South Asian fiction has clearly understood the assignment. Emerging from the socio-political anxieties of a people with a shared and continuing history of conflict and trauma, much of recent South ...

After years of negligence and a lack of serious preservation efforts, the historic buildings and facades of Lahore’s old city are being rescued from further deterioration. The overall jurisdiction of ...

Several major roads in Lahore do not officially exist in municipal records under their commonly used names, and many historical name changes were never legally approved, officials revealed during a ...

An aerial view of Lahore with a prominent view of the Badshahi Mosque. | Public Domain/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Lahore, Manan Ahmed Asif tells us in Disrupted City, his magnificent account of the city, has ...

Often one finds oneself reciting the opening line of poet-editor Pritish Nandi’s classic wherein he creates the life, landscape and love with brutal honesty on bidding adieu. The difference is that ...

The Pakistani city of Lahore is one of the Indian subcontinent’s most brilliant gems, yet it remains relatively obscure outside the country – an unexpected pleasure for travelers. With Pakistan ...