Megasthenes (Editor’s Note: This was published in the Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star on October 7, 2010. Even apart from the historical nuggets it contains, there is much in the narrative that all of us can learn from; and that we wish we had learnt from already, but have not.) Lt. General Azam Khan was […]
Shahran Asim Does anyone know that the Brujan Das was the first Pakistani who swam through the English Channel on 6th August 1958 in about 14 hours, 25 minutes. Did you also know that Brujan Das’s achievement was celebrated in Pakistan with a national Holiday? Did you know know that on 11th November, 1949, fishermen […]
Adil Najam This is an amazing picture (click on picture, or here, to see an enlarged version). Here are just a few of the giants of Urdu literature in this group: Majnoon Gorakhpuri, Mahirul Qadri, Maulvi Abdul Haq, Hasrat Mohani, Saqib Lakhnavi, Seemab Akbarabadi, Hafeez Jullandhari, Dr. Taseer, Josh Maliahbadi, Behzad Luckhnavi, Raja Sahib Mahmoodabad, […]
