By Raza Rumi Lahore’s Lawrence Gardens, baptised the Bagh-i-Jinnah in the post-independence era, represent the quintessential Raj ethos. Built primarily for the sahibs and memsahibs, the park has managed to maintain its dream-like beauty for a century and a half. The colonial maps drawn up in the mid-nineteenth century show that eastward of Charing Cross, […]
Adil Najam Building on my other post today (‘Trilingual’) and after Sabizak’s message on our first ATP post on Pinglish, I am no longer sure if I am using the term correctly or not. Hence the question mark. However, this one is somewhat like another earlier ATP post, titled ‘Lost in Translation’. Literally, the translation […]
By S A J Shirazi About 25 kilometres south of Balochistan coast, Astola–the largest island in Pakistan–is six kilometres in length and administratively comes under Pasni subdivision of Gwadar district. Flying over Astola Island my first sight of the Island and the speed boat anchored in a bay far below quite took my breath. Pointing […]
