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Delhi 1947-48
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... Dr. Trilochan Singh, who had been a Professor in Government College Lahore, managed to get us a play to stay in the boys' hostel, where each room was occupied by a refugee family. Later on, we were allotted ... Saturday, 06 May 2017 -
The Rise and Fall of the Princely State of Alwar
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... (Lahore). For over 35 years, he worked for the Reserve Bank of India, where he headed several all-India departments, and was also the Principal of the RBI Staff College. Now (2017) 90 years old, he is ... Sunday, 16 April 2017 -
A few visits to the Golden Temple at Amritsar
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... Mir, a Muslim holy man. There is a Mian Mir Chhaownee (station) near Lahore. Perhaps that is why Mian Mir is familiar to the locals. However, few Sikhs seem to know of Mian Mir's importance in Sikh history. ... Sunday, 09 April 2017 -
Mushairas in Delhi – 1950s
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... book is a hard bound 12 X 10 inch Dewan-e-Ghalib with reproductions of Chugtai's Paintings, where each painting has a couplet of Ghalib. Printed in Lahore and priced Rs. 35! Here is one example ... Friday, 07 April 2017 -
Hindu-Muslim Relations in Pre-Partition Lahore
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
Pran Seth started his career as a lecturer in Political Science in a Punjab College in Lahore in 1946. After India's Partition, he helped set up a new Hindi daily called Amar Bharat in Delhi. In late ... Saturday, 14 January 2017 -
Major Somnath Sharma – First Param Vir Chakra Awardee
Category: Stories/Armed Forces Heroes
... their father, Amarnath Sharma. As a young doctor he could have had a roaring practice in Lahore but he opted for the British army. He rose to become a Major General. He retired as deputy director of medical ... Sunday, 08 January 2017 -
Dr. Bhowani Dass
Category: Stories/Stories About Men
... me the story after I joined the famous local medical school in town. He often regaled us as to how the legendary professors of medicine at Lahore and Amritsar medical schools had measured and re-measured ... Saturday, 03 December 2016 -
A non-vegetarian life in the pre-1947 Punjab
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... poles which ran along the Lahore-Sheikhupura railway line. They would not have been courteous enough to drop in to a basket for me. Fortunately a Sikh farmer friend of the family had a shotgun and he ... Sunday, 25 September 2016 -
Eating (not) Beef in Lahore
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... India and Pakistan. Venue Lahore. (Editor’s note: the match ended in a draw.) For some reason, the two countries agreed to let people claiming to be cricket fans to go to Lahore with the minimum of formalities. ... Saturday, 17 September 2016 -
My Lessons of History in School
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... its rulers. The Ambala-Ludhiana-Sirhind section of the Delhi-Lahore railway line was opened on Oct.1, 1869. Sirhind has turned a new page in its history with the recent establishment of excellent institutions ... Monday, 18 July 2016 -
Sour Grapes
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... taken that picture? My mother's oldest sister, aunt Vidya, had escaped from Lahore after India's Independence and Partition. For more than a year, her large family had stayed with us. They had occupied ... Saturday, 26 September 2015 -
Memories of the 1950s
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
Reginald was born in Lahore before Partition. He writes books on various subjects pertaining to South Asia. A former London journalist, he now lives in Mid Wales with his actor wife Jamila. His latest ... Thursday, 24 September 2015 -
Youthful memories of the Punjab of long ago
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... My little tank would make its way up an incline of 40 degrees, making a rumbling noise and shooting sparks from a gun. Both these toys came from Anarkali Bazar, Lahore. It was then, to little children, ... Sunday, 20 September 2015 -
Conversational language(s) in the pre-1947Punjab
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... or a Ladakhi, in Lahore before 1947. These gentlemen (there were no ladies, nor children among them) conversed amongst themselves in an unknown tongue. Their apparel marked them as foreigners-to-Punjab. ... Thursday, 27 August 2015 -
Memories of the 1940s
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... leave Lyallpur in the evening by train, which reached Lahore the next morning. From there we had to catch the Punjab Mail for Howrah, which we reached after three days. We left home in Lyallpur in our ... Saturday, 22 August 2015 -
Walking in the hills and the plains of the Punjab - in the times of the British Raj
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... was not uncommon in dogs. It was easily transmitted by dog-bite. The only prophylaxis was anti-rabies vaccine injections. The vaccine was not available even in the provincial capital (Lahore). You had ... Thursday, 20 August 2015 -
Pindi Memoirs by a Sikh Son of the Soil -3
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... some time in Lahore with our father, or went to Murree to live in kothis (bungalows) at Kashmir Point. Our munshi used to go and hire the bungalow for the season (1st April to 31st October). The whole ... Friday, 14 August 2015 -
From Khyber to Kanya Kumari
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... 1934/35, he was made a member of the newly formed Sikh Gurdwaras Judicial Commission in Lahore in 1934/35. Later, he served as the Chairman of the Commission for seven years. Therefore, he moved between ... Friday, 14 August 2015 -
Pindi Memoirs by a Sikh Son of the Soil -2
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... Pindi, Abbottabad, Lahore, Ferozepur and Delhi. Fourteen of his grandsons were educated abroad, and they were then the most foreign-educated family of Pindi. They were mostly doctors, engineers, lawyers, ... Monday, 10 August 2015 -
Memories of 1940s Campbellpore
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... from the maps! (Ed. Renamed as Attock by Pakistan). In 1942, my mother, tired of seeing my father's difficult journey from Lahore, where he worked as a lawyer, to Muktsar, where she was posted as a ... Saturday, 08 August 2015