Adil Najam Updates: here and here. Following from the earlier post on the reported destruction of a Hindu temple in Lahore, the confusion not only continues but compounds. This is what we know: On May 28, 2006, Dawn reported that a Hindu Temple in Rangmahal, Lahore, had been demolished to make way for a commercial […]
Adil Najam All this talk of the London Taxi coming to Pakistan has sent me into a bout of nostalgia about the Tanga (anglicized by some to become a ‘Tonga’). Its still there, but fast on the way to extinction; especially after the arrival of the Qingqi (a ‘Qingqi’ is the poor man’s London Taxi; […]
Adil Najam Updates: here, here and here. There is a storm brewing up–rightly–about the demolition of a Hindu Temple in Lahore: the Krishna Mandir, in Wachhoowali, Rangmahal. In India the BJP has launched a protest and we Pakistanis need to think about what this says about us as a society. The story was first reported […]
