Sher Shah and his Architects
Category Archives: Along the G.T.Road
Khair-un-Nisa
The Mysterious Tomb Outside Rohtas
Outside Gates of Rohtas
Outside of Rohtas Fort are places lost by history but alive in stories. ‘Stories you enjoy listening to, over a cup of tea and a cigarette, under the setting rays of sun.’
Eminabad
Eminabad, both in fact and fiction. A trip to explore the past glory when Eminabad was a busy junction on Uttarpatha, the route up north.
Kos Minars of Lahore
mapping the Royal Mughal Highway, from Shahu di Garhi to Manhala of Khan-i-Khanan to the home edge of ‘no man’s land’ on India-Pakistan border. meeting the Jahangiri Kos Minars of Lahore
Pul Shah Daula
That morning, I had returned to those familiar fields, to explore that bridge on the old alignment of Grand Trunk Road; a bridge frequented by Muhgal Kings, and other Kings who were not Mughal, their royal entourages and battle expeditions; a bridge that had witnessed a Mughal Coronation.
Gates of Lahore – The Flâneur Goes On
… from the beloved waters of Ravi to Khizri Gate, exploring the bits and pieces of the city wall, and thence to the remaining gates of ‘walled city’
Gates of Lahore – An Afternoon Drift
Gates of Lahore, both surviving and detroyed, countless dwellings – doorways – window sills, and equally countless stories. An afternoon drift to explore city’s topophilia.
The Grand Trunk Road
Tracing the original surviving original patches of a historic route. Uttarpatha: the (ab)original footprint…
Bahmanwali Bridge
A mythical journey to the past, exploring Mughal era bridges on the romantic Degh Nadi.
Akbari Serai
Once there was, once there wasn’t… Time was a commodity held aplenty with people. For when people traveled they longed for people and places and when they eventually came across, sitting together and talking to each other wasn’t a sin.
Khatti Chore
A tale of some exceptional finds in an exceptionally never never lands on the periphery of Mooltan….