Dr Ajaz Anwar recalls how a pigeon became a pet for “a companion coming every evening”
Dr Ajaz Anwar recalls the good old days of cinema, when painting the marquee was quite a thing
Dr Ajaz Anwar’s one lifelong regret is that he missed meeting Prof Ahmad Saeed, a learned man who had invited him to design the cover image of his...
Dr Ajaz Anwar writes about the Mozang and Achha gangs, and Arif Shah who dared to challenge the goons
Dr Ajaz Anwar recounts the life of the man who famously ran a bicycle workshop at the Nihalchand Building on Nicholson Road, which was visited by...
Dr Ajaz Anwar goes over some of 2020’s lamentable projects
Dr Ajaz Anwar fondly remembers his school friends, chiefly Manzar Amin, for whom it was “more important to accept the challenge and give the...
Dr Ajaz Anwar talks of the many palatial residences built in Lahore by the Nawabs and Rajas from Kashmir, the Punjab and beyond, “the most...
Dr Ajaz Anwar recounts how writing a letter for an old man made him realise howscript must have evolved from pictography
Dr Ajaz Anwar writes about the struggles of the bullocks that pulled a cart on the streets of Lahore, managed by an old man “who would stand...
Dr Ajaz Anwar remembers the young Bhiyaji and his wife, who had emigrated from India in the wake of communal riots and taken refuge under a tree on...
Dr Ajaz Anwar recounts a day out with his step- great grandmother from the maternal side, in the Lahore of 1952
Dr Ajaz Anwar recalls memories from his “bus stop days”
Dr Ajaz Anwar on Eena, “my adopted uncle”
Dr Ajaz Anwar recalls the times when “many healthy, strong bulls could be seen leisurely loitering around in the city”; making a special...
Dr Ajaz Anwar sees the city of Lahore as “a conglomeration of cul-de-sacs” where many a lane has dead ends that too have been punctured
Dr Ajaz Anwar argues that unchecked, “rank commercialisation” has pushed up the prices of built property
Dr Ajaz Anwar remembers his friend, Masood Hayat, a painter and newspaper columnist who came from a family of wrestlers
Dr Ajaz Anwar remembers an encounter with a fierce dog at his friend’s place, and how the animal became his best friend over time
Dr Ajaz Anwar recounts taking on a “monster of a man” in a punching match
