ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਪੜ੍ਹੋ تے اواگت بنگلے دی ڈِنگی پکّی یار او جوہلاں دے اڈے تے جتھوں اٹی دے ٹانگے چلدے سی، پکی دے پرلے پاسے اک چوبارہ ہندا سی۔ تھلے چاء داہوٹل اتے الیکشن آفس۔ او ہالے وی اوتھے ای اے؟ تینوں او چوبارہ کتھوں چیتے آگیا اپنے تایازاد بھرا حفیظ نال فون تے گل […]
Category Archives: The Punjab Gazetteer
A Tale of Three Tiered Tombs
Exploring Bahauddin Zakariya’s tomb in Multan and three tiered tradition in South Punjab and Sind
Anarkali of Lahore
The mysterious Mughal courtesan. Our heroine of city legend, Anarkali of Lahore
Khair-un-Nisa
The Mysterious Tomb Outside Rohtas
A Hymn from Rigveda
An Ode to Rivers
Jaggery
a childhood taste from Punjab
penned in Shahmukhi and Gurmukhi
The Ancient Bhera
A trip down the past lane in the ancient town of Bhera, where time in its passing froze to a halt.
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’