This is the second post on the travelogue by the Jeddah based writer Tariq Al-Maeena on his travels to Pakistan.
Pakistan Re-Visited – (4)
The road to Lahore
On a day following several meetings with officials from the Pakistani government that ran later than scheduled, we missed our flight reservations to Lahore. Faced with the option [...]
Yoginder Sikand
We have a three-hour stop over at Lahore airport on our way back to
Delhi from Islamabad. I am excited about going back home, but, at the
same time, am sad at the thought of leaving Pakistan. I don’t know
when, if at all, I can come back here, if I can ever again meet some
of [...]
Text and pictures by the eminent Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan
The Pak Tea House - originally named as Lahore Tea House in the mid-1940s - and Indian Coffee House in Jalandhar were the twin institutions of the post-1947 Punjab, which were the haunts of third generation Punjabi intellectuals mostly with leftist leanings. They were mini light [...]
Source: The Post
LAHORE: Chairman, department of Urdu, Jamia Milia New Delhi, India, Shamim Hanfi has said that present century is of conflicts, disputed personalities and differences as we are breathing in an environment which is badly polluted by Psychological sickness.
He was addressing at the inaugural session of the “International Conference on Psychology & Literature” here [...]
by Raza Rumi
This letter appeared in several dailies, some time ago, with the title: Saving Pak Tea House with this sad-funny illustration that plays on the title- Pak Tyre House. The author is Dr. Irfan Zafar.
Pak Tea House, located on the Mall near Anarkali Bazar in Lahore was originally established as the “India Coffee House” before independence in [...]
Afshan Khoja
“I was very disturbed after watching the video that Geo and Dawn TV have been airing, where the Lahore bomber runs over a guard to enter the building gate. It is such a traumatic video. DAWN TV went ahead and showed it in slow-motion. This was all without any warnings for disturbing content.
While I know [...]
by Simon Jenkins
Here in the city of Kim, Pakistan’s magnificent history is being left to rot - Musharraf has allowed one of the wonders of Asia to disintegrate; and a country that neglects its past endangers its future
Poor Lahore. Yesterday this jewelled city of the Raj was hit by a suicide bomber aimed at lawyers [...]
Raza Rumi
Lahore is one of three ancient cities whose gates earned immense historical and social significance
Shaan Taseer from Karachi has sent us this image that was captured while he was shooting for a documentary on The Pak Tea House. The documentary was shown at the Kara Film Festival 2005.
This story narrates how Lahore’s intelligentsia is being treated while the Talibans remove Pakistani flags in the northern parts of the country:
Dr. Cheema, head of the economics department at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, said that even after bail is granted, the terms are such that they could be re-arrested at any time without [...]
Asma Jahangir, the brave fighter, has sent this message from house arrest in Lahore
Appeal for support to lawyers and judges in Pakistan
I am fortunate to be under house arrest while my colleagues are suffering. The Musharaf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Full entry here >>
When Guru Dutt Sondhi, the first Indian principal of Lahore’s Government College staged his Shakespeare plays there, he could hardly have imagined that someone in his Sondhi Translation Society would complain that Pakistan’s “trilingual” system has killed all creativity. This is what has happened on Tuesday at a seminar on Trend of Translation in Social [...]
Shaheryar Ali’s philosophical take on a world where real ideas have become ghosts. And a Pak Tea House is shut when it cannot make any profits. This is a good start of this young blog:
Hello “world!”. A very simple line it appears to be but it haunts me. What is the world? World was understood either as [...]
This is yet another blog magazine that a group of motivated Pakistani citizens will manage -
Yes it is about Pakistan and the inspiration is the defunct institution of Pak Tea House in Lahore that was once a place for intellectual discourse, recognising creativity and where the old and the young mingled with ease and mutual respect.
Halqa-i-Arbab-i-Zauq [...]
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