Owais Mughal This notice board is from Food Street, Lahore. It reads: “Entering the ‘Food Street’ wearing shorts is strictly prohibited: Food Street Administration” Among other things on this notice board, I enjoyed reading the word sakht (strictly). As if the word forbidden didn’t sound serious enough, the administration had to add a prefix strictly […]

Dr Ghulam Nabi Kazi Allama I. I. Kazi died in 1968 and therefore people of my generation have had little or no direct contact with him. My paternal grandfather Dr. Ali Ahmed Kazi was a nephew of Allama Sahib while my maternal grandfather Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi was a first cousin and brother-in-law of […]

Mast Qalandar (MQ) This post is about the “posters”, that is, the people who regularly post comments on ATP. In other words, my mental sketches of the persons I come across on the ATP discussion board. One of the things I do early in the morning, after checking my e-mail and the news updates, is […]