IN SEARCH FOR REFERENCES ABOUT HAMID MIMAR; AND THE LINK WITH USTAD AHMAD MIMAR LAHORI.
WAS QUAID E AZAM A FILM FAN? THE LEADER KNEW POTENTIALS OF FILM INDUSTRY
RARELY KNOWN UNFNISHED ALL STONE MOSQUE OF HINDAL MIRZA; BELOVED SON OF EMPEROR BABAR; SUPPORTER PRINCE HUMAYOUN.
SHAH QALEEM ULLAH GRANDSON OF USTAD AHMAD MIMAR LAHORIA MANUSCRIPT FROM HIS LIBRARY ENTITLED SHARH QASIDA BURDA
MEMORABLE FAREWELL GET TOGETHER AT CHAMBERLAIN ROAD; ON DEPARTURE OF HAFIZ YUSUF FOR HIS WORK IN SAUDI ARABIA.
A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO BELITTLE DR ALLAMA IQBAL; FLOCK OF NEGATIVE PEOPLE WASTING THEIR TIME.
SAMARENDRA NATH GUPTA AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI; BOTH ENEMIES AND PLACED AT SELECTION COMMITTEE 1934.
A DESERTED LAHORE GETS RECLUSE FROM SAYYID MUBARIK;DEFEATS JASARATH KHOKHAR AND SETS BASIS FOR NEW CITY, NAMED AS MUBARIKABAD LAHORE IN 1421; AS REPOPULATED.
A RARE FOOTAGE OF AN IMPORTANT CHUGHTAI EXHIBITION SHOW
TWO TRANSLATIONS DONE IN PUNJAB OF IMMORTAL QASIDA BURDA; VERSES BY LUTUULLAH AHMAD 1079 AH, NIAZ MUHAMMED 1152 AH.
M S VATTS SUPERINTENDENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA; DID DISCOVER GRAVE OF USTAD AHMAD LAHORI IN AURANGABAD.
THE PATHOS OF SHAH ALAM AND HIS TIMES A PUNJ SURA – WRITTEN BY HIM BEFORE BLINDNESS – SURROUNDED BY MIR JAFFERS AND MI6 007 SABOTEURS
THE MEMOIRS OF ABDUR RAHEEM KHAN KHANAN MAASER I RAHEEMI; MULLA WAISHI YAZDI TALKS OF USTAD HERAWI AS ARCHITECT OF KHAN: MORE SPECIFICALLY MULLA ABDUL BAQI NAHAVANDI REVEALS NAME, OF MUHAMMED ALI MIMAR GARAG, HAMMAMI AS ARCHITECT WORKS.
IN SHAH JAHANS TIME BEFORE MUMTAZ MAHAL THERE WAS GULARA MAHAL; BEFORE THE TAJ MAHAL, THERE WAS THE TWIN PALACE GULARA BURHANPUR.
SEARCH OF SOURCES OF MUHAMMED YUSUF MIMAR; TRACED AS FATHER OF USTAD AHMAD MIMAR LAHORI.
ART COUNCILS OF PAKISTAN – M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI’S EFFORTS FOR PAKISTAN
A NEW WAVE OF CHUGHTAI FORGERIES DONE BY A KARACHI ARTIST; WITHOUT INFORMATION FORGING PERSONAL SIGNATURES AND SEALS.
14TH AUGUST 1959 INAUGURATION PAKISTAN ARTS COUNCIL KARACHI; SPEECH ON EMBARGO BY PRESIDENT AYUB KHAN ON PAKISTANI ARTISTS.
FIRST OFFICIAL SHOW OF PAINTINGS IN PAKISTAN, M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI; INAUGURATION OF ALHAMRA ARTS COUNCIL KHAWAJA NAZIMUDDIN 1949; AMBASSADORS SPECIALLY FLEW FROM KARACHI TO VIEW THE SHOW
A GREAT ART EVENT IN PAKISTAN’S HISTORY 14TH AUGUST 1959 ; INAUGURATION OF KARACHI ARTS COUNCIL WITH ART WORKS OF ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI NATIONAL ARTIST OF PAKISTAN
GOLDEN CHANCE OF A CHUGHTAI ONE MAN SHOW IN LONDON; TIMING SABOTAGED BY THE FOREIGN MINISTRY PAKISTAN 1966.
IN SEARCH OF THE SARCOPHAGUS OF EMPRESS NUR JAHAN; IT IS WRITTEN THAT IT WAS STILL INTACT IN THE YEAR 1892.
THE START OF A MUSLIM RENAISANCE IN THE REGIONAL ARTS; ICONIC ORIGINAL LETTERHEAD OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI.
WHEN QUEEN ELIZABETH BOUGHT A CHUGHTAI PAINTING!
A MUSLIM PALACE IN SICILY MADE FOR KING WILLIAM II; POPULARLY KNOWN AS “CUBA” ACTUALLY KUBBEH CASTLE.
NUR MUHAMMED SON OF ATTAULLAH RUSHDI SON OF AHMAD MIMAR; AS KNOWN AS HAFIZ HAFEEZ: DISCOVERING FRESH EVIDENCE ON FAMILY.
DO NOT MAKE A NECKLACE OF THESE PEARLS OF WISDOM, TO PUT ON THE NECK OF A DONKEY: LUTUFULLAH MUHANDIS, WARNING HIS DESCENDANTS ABOUT HIS KHULASATUL HISAB.
ALL POWERFUL SULTANS OBSESSED WITH SELF ENHANCEMENT OF ISLAM; A SULTANI BOOK OF SULTAN ULUGH BEG TWO WITH INSIGNIA AND SEAL.
A CHURCH BUILT BY MUSLIMS IN SICILY FOR THEIR CHRISTIAN BRETHREN
THE FIRST MUSEUM OF ISLAM FORMED BY THE PROPHET (PBUH) AND CALIPHS, OF ALL THE PLACES IN THE KHANA KAABA ITSELF, NOW WHO CAN BEAT THAT?
TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD ARE IN CONSTANT FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER; BUT CAN FIFTH GENERATION BRAINWASHING ERASE LOVE OF PAKISTAN.
CONFUSION PREVAILS ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF LALL KUNWAR; PROSTITUTE WIFE OF ALAMGEER II OR KING JAHANDAR SHAH.
THE CLEAREST NAME OF A MIMAR IN MUGHAL ARCHITECTURE; USTAD KHUDA QULI MIMAR OF TOMB OF ATGAH KHAN IN DELHI.
SEARCHING FOR MIMARS OF THE MUGHAL PERIOD; SHUKR ULLAH MIMAR AND AURANGZEB ALAMGEER.
COMPOSITION OF ARTIST’S IS A STUDY IN DETAILED ANALYSIS; GIVING A VIEW OF STUDY ON CEZANNE, REQUIRED URGENTLY; THE STUDY OF THE UNIQUE COMPOSITION OF CHUGHTAI ART.
AN ACTUAL FAMILY OF CHABUK SAWARS STARTING FROM AFGHANISTAN; WITH CONNECTIONS IN PAKISTAN (LAHORE) AND VARIOUS CITIES IN INDIA.
A COARSE BLACK DRESS, CONTAMINIATED NAPPI FISH, MURDERED PARENTS: HELPLESS; AMEENA MUGHAL PRINCESS, DAUGHTER OF SHAH SHUJA; PREGNANT BY HEATHEN KING.
THE MOHALLA OF CHABUK SAWARAN IN LAHORE; FROM WHERE DID THESE HORSE RIDERS COME HERE?
IT WAS OBVIOUS MUGHAL LADIES WOULD INDULGE IN PAINTING, BUT FEW SIGNED WORKS PRESERVED OF THEIR CREATIVE EFFORTS.
AN UNKNOWN EUNUCH OF MASJID WAZEER KHAN LAHORE – THE ENIGMA OF FAMILY OF MULLAH YUSUF KASHMEERI
MUGHAL ARCHITECTURAL GEM NEXT MASJID WAZEER KHAN: THE MAUSOLEUM OF IMAM GHULAM MUHAMMED IMAM GAMU; STILL STANDING ALTHOUGH MANY OTHER GRAVES ARE NOW GONE.
IN THIS HYBRID WAR THE VALUE OF TRUTH IS BEING DOWNGRADED; SOCIETY IN ITS QUEST OF ACCUMULATION THROUGH GREED HAS LOST, THE ESSENTIAL VALUES OF LIFE AS TOLD TO US BY ALL RELIGIONS.
THE TRADITION OF MUSHAIRAS IN OUR CULTURE; POETIC GATHERING IN LAHORE IN YEAR 1044 A H. INAUGURATION OF MASJID WAZEER KHAN LAHORE.
THE HINDU CALLIGRAPHERS OF LAHORE; A FAMOUS “LAHORE MAL” FAMILY OF KATIBS
RAJA JAI SINGH’S INTEREST IN ASTRONOMY AND MUHAMMED SHAH; INVOLVEMENT OF KHAIRULLAH, ABID, AKBAR AND USHOOR BAIG IN ZIJ: ALL MUHANDISEN BELONGING TO FAMOUS MIMAR FAMILY OF LAHORE.
VISUAL IMAGERY OF SIR THOMAS ROE IS IN CONFLICTFALSE – ATTRIBUTION BY ENTHUSIASTS VERSUS REALITY
UNKNOWN CONSTRUCTION OF LUTUFULLAH AHMAD; BAGH MAUSOLEUM OF PRINCESS ROSHAN ARA BEGUM.
MANY MUGHAL MANUSCRIPTS THROUGH SEALS AND NOTATIONS; REVEAL HISTORY. ARCHITECTS LIKE LUTUFULLAH WERE LIBRARIANS.
RARE WORK, RARE SUBJECT AND RARE ARTIST; NADEEM LAHORI AT AKBAR’S STUDIO LAHORE.
THE DESCENDANTS OF JAHANGEER AND NUR JAHAN RUNNING FARRIER’S SHOP, IN A WALL IN WAZEER KHAN MOSQUE LAHORE. ROYAL FAMILY AS COMMONERS.
THE MANY STAMPS DESIGNED BY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI; NO COMPLETE RECORD WITH US BUT STILL SOME REMNANTS.
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AVID DESIGNER OF POSTAL STAMPS; MANY USED, MANY UNUSED, AND MANY LYING IN COLLECTIONS.
CONVERSION OF BROTHERHOOD INTO ANIMOSITY OF TWO ARTISTS; A. R. EJAZ COMPARES CHUGHTAI TO A SWEEPRESS MISTAKING LIGHT, IN THE CLOUDS TO BE A WINKING JIBE FROM GOD AND JUBILATING.
NOT WELL KNOWN THE FACT THAT MANY FOLLOWED CHUGHTAI ART; THE YOUNG MUHAMMED IBRAHEEM FROM BANARAS WITH GHALIB.
FROM PERSIA TO KABUL TO LAHORE THE EVOLUTION OF MUGHAL PAINTING; FASCINATING FIRST MUGHAL WORK OF 1555 DONE BY MASTERS UNKNOWN.
THE VISIT OF ENGRAVER ARTIST HARRY NORMAN ECCLESTON IN 1980; REALLY MEMORABLE LECTURE ON ETCHINGS AT CHUGHTAI MUSEUM.
THE DESCENDANT OF USTAD AHMAD MIMAR AT LUCKNOW COURT; FOUND SERVING NAWAB YASMEEN MAHAL WIFE OF WAJID ALI SHAH.
A STUDY OF LETTERS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI BIZARRE REVELATIONS, CONTACTS WITH TURKISH SULTANS AND OFFER OF HELP IN PROJECTS.
THE FIRST VISIT OF PRIME MINISTER LIAQUAT ALI KHAN TO USA; A CHUGHTAI’S PAINTING PRESENTED TO TRUMAN AT BLAIR HOUSE.
TWO AMERICAN AMBASSADORS AT CHUGHTAI MUSEUM AT SAME TIME; YES, INDIA AND PAKISTAN AND LITERALLY FREE ATMOSPHERE IN 1987-88
THE GOLDEN PERIOD OF MUSLIM RULE IN HINDUSTAN, THE TUGHLAQ KINGS AND THEIR LEGACY OF THE QURAN: IRRITATING RELIGIOUS PRIESTS AND BEFRIENDING HINDUS.
A CONTEMPORARY SUBJECT OF PAKISTANI GIRLS, MODERN PAINTINGS BY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THE MOST REMARKABLE GRAVE IN ISLAMIC HISTORY; A SCULPTURE OF DOG ON GRAVE OF AN ARCHITECT.
ENGINEERING SCHOOL LAHORE 1853 UNDER ENGLISH ENGINEER; A LAHORI CHIRAGH DIN MIMAR ENLISTED SAME ON REGULAR PAY.
AN EXCEPTIONAL METAL ENGRAVER OF LAHORE NAMELY PIR BAKSH; MAKER OF FINE SWORDS AND POSSIBLY MAKER OF ASTROLABES TOO.
A STRANGE CHARACTER WHO RAISED HIMSELF FROM ORDINARY LIFE, BY SHEER SHREWDNESS TO BE THE ACTING GOVERNOR OF THE PUNJAB DIRECT NEIGHBOUR OF MIMAR FAMILY IN MOHALLA CHABUK SAWARAN.
LAST DAY OF ARTIST M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI; THE FIRST EFFORTS OF ARIF RAHMAN CHUGHTAI: FIRST CLARION CALL TO PRESERVE LEGACY OF ART.
HIDDEN MONUMENTS AND PRE-MUGHAL DOMES – SOME LAHORI SITES OUT OF SIGHT OF PEOPLE: – HUGH DOMES OF UNKNOWN PRE-MUGHAL TIMES.
THE START OF PORTRAITURE IN ISLAMIC PAINTING; THE CLIMAX OF PORTRAITURE IN ISLAMIC PAINTING: THE PORTRAYAL OF SULTANS IN PERIODS OF TIME.
HEROES AND VILLAINS MADE BY LOBBIES ALLERGIC TO OBJECTIVITY; THERE IS CULTURAL SIDE OF MIR MANNU GOVERNOR OF PUNJAB.
FROM THE FAME OF TAFSEER HUSSAINI OF HERAT, TO THE MATALIB QURAN OF G.A. PERVEZ OF LAHORE
MANIPULATING HISTORICAL RECORDS INTO DIFFERENT VERSIONS; YES, LOH SON OF RAM CHANDAR NO WHERE IN HISTORY OF LAHORE.
DEATH AND BLINDING OF TEN THOUSAND MUSLIM MONGOLS, LAL MAHARA MAUSOLEUMS INSCRIPTIONS MONGOLIAN SCRIPT.
MARK COOPER STRONG FEELINGS FOR SAFETY OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM; ARCHERY EXPERT ALSO WISHES WOLVERHAMPTON TO MAKE MUSEUM.
LOST LEGACY OF IN LAWS AND PROSPECTIVE IN LAWS, OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI, WORTHY OF BEING RECORDED.
MOST FUNNY VIDEO ON ART CRITICISM AND VINCENT VAN GOGH; CAN DIE LAUGHING AND ALSO THINKING CLUES OF CIVILIZATION.
AN UNKNOWN DIWAN OF NAWAB WAZEER KHAN TAKHALLUS WAZEERI; SOME CONFUSION PREVAILS AS TO THE IDENTITY OF THE SAID PERSON.
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI OBSESSED WITH REGIONAL PICTORIAL HISTORY; RESEARCHED ON “DABISTAN MUSSAWARI” OF LAHORE AND ITS OFF-SHOOTS.
TWELVTH SERIES EXPLORATION OF CHUGHTAI ART: STORY OF OPPORTUNITIES OF AN ADVERTISING AGENCY; EXPLOITATION OF TALENT GENERATION OF RESOURCES.
WHEN A CHUGHTAI WORK IS IN OUR ARCHIVES, IN A POSITION TO COMPARE SAME WITH FAKE.
ART EXPLORATIONS TEN OF FAKE INDUSTRY OF CHUGHTAI ART, DELHI SCHOOL: THE INTERNET IS FULL OF CHUGHTAI FAKES, AND IT IS NOT LIKELY THAT TRUTH; IS NOT KNOWN. IT IS INTEREST OF ART BUSINESS TO CLOSE EYES AS REQUIRED.
HUMAN NATURE IS FOR ORDINARY ARTISTS TO IMITATE MASTERS; A POSITIVE STEP IS ONLY TO INNOVATE AND LEARN PICTORIAL ART; ON OTHER HAND, A NEGATIVE STEP IS TO SEEK MARKET FOR SAME. EXPLORATIONS IN ART LOOKS AT CHUGHTAI FAKE MARKET IN CHINA
FINAL WORD IN PICTORIAL EXCELLENCE OF CHUGHTAI ART; THE FINISHED MASTERPIECES OF ART THAT KEEPS HIM ALIVE.
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI STUDY OF DIFFERENT HUMAN FACES; ACCORDING TO PAUL DRURY HIS MIND STORED BANK OF FACES, FROM WHERE HE COULD DRAW A FACE AT WILL FOR HIS WORK. SERIES SEVEN IN EXPLORATION OF CHUGHTAI ART, KNOWLEDGE.
ART REVIEWS ON CHUGHTAI ART STARTED IN 1920; “FOLIO” AND “RAVI” FIRST TO PRINT WRITINGS ON MARC. FIRST PAINTING APPEARED IN “MODERN REVIEW” 1917. URDU MAGAZINES LAHORE CARRIED OWN WRITE-UP THEN.
THE ORIGIN OF ALL CHUGHTAI WORKS IS IN THIS HOUSE, ALL ART WORKS PRESERVED FOR ADDITIONAL STUDY. A STUDY OF ODDS AND ENDS REVEAL INTRICACIES OF ART: PAPER, LINE AND COLOUR IMPORTANT BUT FEELINGS MOST.
FIRST SABOTAGE BY PAKISTANI LOBBY OF AN EXHIBITION FOR GERMANY, THE FOMENTING DOUBTS OVER YEARS OF EFFORT OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM.
THE FIRST STUDENT AFTER THE DEATH OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – MS MARCELLA BEDFORD NESOM SIRHINDI AND 1978 HAPPENINGS
ART EXPLORATIONS OF CHUGHTAI ART SERIES FIVE; ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS AND ENGRAVED PLATES; WESTERN MEDIA UNDER PERFECTION EASTERN HANDS.
AN EXPLORATION OF CHUGHTAI ART SERIES FOUR: A RARE GENRE WHICH ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI INNOVATED, BASED ON THE GRAND TRADITIONS OF PAST MUSLIM MASTERS; MOSTLY FINISHED WITH THE TIP OF BRUSH LIKE SIYAH QALAM.
ART EXPLORATION OF CHUGHTAI ART SERIES THREE: INTRODUCING PENCIL SKETCHES OF ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI; NOT ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO CAN MAKE THEM, FREE DRAWING WITH LIVING EXPRESSIONS, THE ESSENTIAL SKELETON OF ALL WATER COLOUR WORKS.
BONHAMS, DR CHRISTA PAULA AND RETURN TO COMMON SENSE – ARROGANCE RUBBED TO THE GROUND WITHOUT REAL KNOWLEDGE – ART EXPLORATION AT AUCTION HOUSES, RESEARCH CONFIRMATION.
AN ART EXPLORATION TRIP TO USA AND EUROPE 1976 – FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH AN AUCTION HOUSE SOTHEBYS.
AN AMERICAN THESIS FOR UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 1926 – ON THE RACE “CHUHRAS” OF THE PUNJAB BY STRICKLER.
WHEN SULTANA RAZIA BEGUM CAME TO LAHORE TO SEE SAID MITHA – AND PERHAPS ENDED UP BEING BURIED IN KASUR ON SOME ACCOUNTS.
A RAREST ART PROMOTION WAVE IN INDIA IN 1946 – LORD WAVELL AND LADY WAVELL INVOLVED IN SHOW.
AN INTERNATIONAL SHOW OF SHAZIA SIKANDER IN USA – USE OF PAINTING FRUIT SELLER BY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
IS THIS DEAD BODY OF A HINDU LADY OF LAHORE? – WIFE OF DEV SAMAJ FOUNDER PANDIT AGNIHOTRI.
JACQUELINE KENNEDY, EDITH WELCH AND CHUGHTAI MUSEUM – NEW NARRATIVE TRACES THE RELATION BETWEEN ALL OF THEM.
STEREOTYPES AND CLICHES MARK REFERENCES ABOUT LAHORE – YES, TWISTING THE CITY’S HISTORY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE: – NO SOURCE BEING LEFT FOR TRUTH BY SPREADING MISTRUTHS.
A MOST UNUSUAL DOCUMENT OF MOHALLA CHABUK SAWARAN – RENT AGREEMENT WITH A WOMAN ROTI MAKER AND TANDOOR.
HAND GRENADES TO QUELL OPPOSITION, BY DIRECT CHARGE – AS WELL AS THROWING SAME FROM TOP OF FORT RAMPANTS.
THE CALLIGRAPHER ABDUL BAQI HADAD OF IRAN – FATHER-IN-LAW OF USTAD AHMAD MIMAR LAHORI.
EMPEROR JAHANGEER HAD ONE TILE MOSAIC DESIGNED ON LAHORE FORT – BHANDAR AND BAQRI TAMASHA: FOUR HUNDRED YEARS STILL SAME TODAY.
MOST UNIQUE CALLIGRAPHIC MANUAL OF THEM ALL – PRINCIPLES OF NASTALIQ BY ABDUR RASHEED DAILMI – THE CHIEF CALLIGRAPHER OF EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN.
FORTY-FIVE GENERATIONS COUNTED BY A 17TH CENTURY SCHOLAR – MUHAMMED AMAN RELATIVE OF NURULLAH AHMAD SON OF AHMAD.
WEST OBSESSION WITH BABY ANGELIC CHERUBS DOES NOT FIT OUR CULTURE – ALL ORIGINAL MINIATURES CARRY ANGELS AS FULLY GROWN MEN, WOMEN.
REMEMBERING ALA BEG TABREZI THE GREAT CALLIGRAPHER FROM TABREZ – AN UNKNOWN MANUSCRIPT IN THE LIBRARY ARCHIVES OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM.
THE STORY OF JALAL UD DIN KHAWARAZM SHAHI AND SAID MITHA – A LAHORI CHAPTER 1219-1221 TO 1262 A.D ALIVE TO THIS DAY WELL
MEMORIES OF SCHOOL DAYS AT RAILWAY TECHNICAL SCHOOL – PAGES FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A FEW REMARKABLY PRESERVED PAGES FROM A SCHOOL DRAWING BOOK – PROBABLY AROUND 1908, EARLIEST FREE DRAWINGS M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A KITA MASTERPIECE BY MIAN MUHAMED HAYAT NAQASH – LARGEST KITA SEEN BY US OF UNBELIEVABLE SIZE PATRON.
IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPTS RELATED TO NAWAB WAZEER KHAN LAHORI – AND HIS SON MUHAMMED SALAH ALIAS ANWAR KHAN ALAMGEERI
DR ANJUM REHMANI VERSUS DR ABDULLAH CHAGHATAI – FIGHT OF SCHOLARS HAS BECOME ROUTINE IN OUR TIMES.
A DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF LAHORE MAJOR JOHN CLARKE – AND MIAN RAHEEM BAKSH MIMAR, LINKS ALL NEW IN WORK – A STORY OF CHANGE AND THE COMING OF THE NEW AESTHETICS
A CONCEPT KNOWN AS IQBALLIAN KHUDI OFFERS OF DONATION FOR CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
A FAMOUS HAKEEM OF LAHORE FROM FAMOUS HAKEEMS FAMILY – SYED BUZURG SHAH, WITH A KOCHA IN LAHORE NAMED AFTER HIM.
THE ARRIVAL OF SHAHINSHAH OF IRAN IN LAHORE 1950 – THE EXHIBITION AT ALHAMRA OF PAINTINGS OF M A R C.
DALU RAI, CHUTTA AMRANI; TWO BROTHERS DIFFERENT IN SPIRIT – STORY OF TWO WOMEN SUHAGHAN AND DUAGHAN IN AROR SINDH. – (BADI-U-JAMAL DAMSEL OF MERCHANT SAIF UL MALOOK)
THE AQUATINT BOX IN THE GODOWN SPEAKS OF AQUATINTING TECHNIQUE, OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – FOOLISH EXPERTS DO NOT EVEN KNOW DIFFERENCE.
THE MONGOLS, KHILJIS AND THE LAL MAHARA MONUMENTS – CAN THERE BY A REASONABLE ANALYSIS BASED ON HISTORY?
THE ACTUAL DATE OF DEATH OF AMANAT KHAN SHERAZI – ALIVE ON 14TH RABI UL AWWAL 1057 WITH NOTATION.
AN UNKNOWN MARKET PLACE IN LAHORE, KATRA ABDUL GHAFUR, IN SIKH TIMES – INSCRIPTION SAYS BUILT BY MIAN RAHEEM BAKSH MIMAR IN 1820 A D, (1236 AH).
THE CONTROVERSY OF A MUGHAL BRIDGE AT BARA – MUGHAL INSCRIPTION PESHAWAR MUSEUM 1039 AH.
THE ENIGMA OF THE ATTOCK MAQBARA IN ATTOCK KHURD – IS IT MAUSOLEUM OF FAVOURITE CONCUBINE BIBI MARIAM, WIFE OF EMPEROR AKBAR AND MOTHER OF PRINCE DANIYAL.
THE ENIGMA OF THE GRAVE OF USTAD KAMALUDDIN BEHZAD – TABRIZ OR HERAT:- DEFINITE PROOFS OF RESEARCH IN HERAT.
THE LAHORE FORT BEFORE THE FORT BUILT BY EMPEROR AKBAR – SOME RANDOM DESCRIPTIONS, BUT WITH HARDLY ANY IMAGES
THE FUTURE OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM IN ABLE HANDS – FOUR CUSTODIANS PAR EXCELLENCE TRAINED IN FULL
DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS, MORBID OBSESSION WITH PHONES, INTERNET – YES, SUBLIMINAL CUTS, BRAIN MANIPULATIONS, UNDERMINING ALL LIFE: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
ON RAVI ROAD A CREMATION PLACE IN LAHORE FOR HINDU LADIES – WAS MS AMRITA SHER GIL CREMATED HERE? RESEARCH REQUIRED!
NIECE OF JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU AND COUSIN OF INDIRA GANDHI – MRS JANAKI KUMARI ZUTSHKI, LIVED AND DIED IN LAHORE IN 1997.
QUAID E AZAM’S COMMITMENT TO THE PALESTINE CAUSE – BATTALION ARMY, 250,000 GUNS and DIPLOMATIC BACK-UP
UNKNOWN DASTUR KAIKOBAD MAHYAR AN INHERITED PARSEE PRIEST – SO PRESENT AT COURTS OF AKBAR, JAHANGEER AND PRINCE KHURRAM.
THE LITTLE-KNOWN MAUSOLEUM OF AMANAT KHAN SHERAZI – JUST SOUTH OF SERAI AMANAT KHAN TARN TARAN AMRITSAR
THE SECOND MARRIAGE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI; 13TH DECEMBER 1944 KISHWAR IQBAL BANO IN AMRITSAR
THE TRADITION OF CLOTH PUNKAS IN LAHORE – HUMAN LABOUR IN MOVING SAME FOR HOURS
A VERY SAD DEATH OF AYMANN AL-TAHER IN JORDAN 15TH NOVEMBER 2020 – SON IN LAW OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI, EX-HUSBAND MUSSARAT CHUGHTAI
ALLAMA IQBAL’S FIRST FAMILY MISSED BY OUR JOURNALISTS – FOR REASONS UNKNOWN. AFTAB IQBAL INTELLECTUAL SON.
YES, HALAKU KHAN INDEED DECIMATED A PUTRID STATE OF ISLAM – AND HOW PURE ISLAM CONQUERED SAME FAMILY OF MONGOLS: CONQUESTS AND CONVERSIONS THE NEW DIALOGUE OF HISTORY
A FOREIGNER GERTRUDE BELL’S TRAVEL DIARIES IN LAHORE 1905 – PASSING REFERENCE TO PERCY BROWN OF MAYO SCHOOL OF ARTS
AN URDU MAGAZINE OF LAHORE CITY PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS – LAHORI IMAGES RECOVERED FROM FADED OLD LITHO BLOCKS
THE EMERGENCE OF THE DOUBLE DOME IN INDO-PAKISTANI REGION – BULBOUS DOME VERY DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS SULTANATE DOMES
THE STRANGEST PERSONALITY OF DR ABDULLAH CHAGHATAI – BROTHER OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI, EXEMPLARY SCHOLAR.
EXPLORING THE INSIDE OF THE DOME OF SAHIB JAMAL WIFE OF PRINCE SALEEM – DOME FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE REGION, LARGELY EMPTY, UNSEEN BOTTOM VIEW
UTTER FASCINATION WITH THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANARKALLI AND WHITE VISITORS – OBSESSION WITH OEDIPAL, INCEST AND SEXUAL ABERRATIONS IN BAZAAR GOSSIPS.
CHUGHTAI MUSEUM UNDER SIEGE FROM MALIGNANT FORCES – SAVING THE LEGACY OF CHUGHTAI ART NOT A SIMPLE JOB AT ALL.
A SOCIAL DILEMMA OF HISTORICAL DISTORTION IN WHICH MASSIVE DECEPTION – SEES MANDIRS IN ICONS OF OTHER CIVILIZATIONS, FOOLHARDINESS NO REASON
WHEN ALLAH GAVE US THE CHOICE TO CHOOSE OUR PATH OURSELVES – TO DIFFERENTIATE RIGHT FROM WRONG BASED ON THE QURAN ITSELF: – INTRODUCING FATALISM IN OUR WAY OF LIFE WITH PREDICTIONS GALORE – WORK OF AN ALIEN GROUP OF PEOPLE UNDERMINING QURANIC THOUGHT.
THE BEHEADING OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST (QATIL YAHUNNA) – DRAMA STAGED IN THE GARDEN OF MAH SINGH GUJARANWALA – ASSOCIATION OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI WITH CHRISTIANS
LUTUFULLAH’S CIRCUMCISION DATE OF SULAIMAN SHIKOH SON OF DARA SHIKOH – CIRCUMCISION AT EIGHTEEN YEARS SPEAK OF AMBIVALENCE TO MUSLIM PRACTICE OF CIRCUMCISION AT AN EARLY DATE UNDER FAMILY DISPLAY OF “JASHAN SUNTAN”
FROM USTAD AHMAD MIMAR TO MIAN KAREEM BAKSH MIMAR – MOVEMENT FROM EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN TO MAI HIRAN LAHORI
TURNING POINTS IN ISLAMIC HISTORY SULTAN MUHAMMED AL-FATEH – THE YEAR 2020 HERALDING ANOTHER ICONIC STEP FOR MUSLIM UMMA
YOU HAVE HEARD POLITICAL CHANGES ARE PLANNED IN LONDON – DO YOU KNOW CULTURAL CHANGES ARE ALSO LONDON PLANNED! – ART DEVOID OF ISLAM AND PAKISTAN, CONFESSED MR G.M. BUTCHER
A QURANIC SCHOLAR OF KOCHA CHABUK SAWARAN – ABDULLAH CHAKRALAVI AND CHUGHTAI BROTHERS
LOVE OF THE MONGOL QUEEN FOR HER THREE SONS – THE ANA SHAH KHATUN OF TABRIZ EAST AZERBAIJAN
A TIME IN IRAQ BEFORE SADDAM AND THE PRESENT ANARCHY – VISIT OF IRAQI PRINCE TO PAKISTAN AND CHUGHTAIS PAINTING.
THE VARIOUS THESIS ALTERNATIVES OF TAJ MAHAL – CREATION OF ESTEEMED DR ABDULLAH CHAGHATAI
THE MALIGNANT ESTRANGEMENT BETWEEN DARA SHIKOH AND MIAN SAADULLAH – FANTASTIC INFORMATION GIVEN BY FRANCOIS BERNIER AND NICHOLAS MANNUCI.
ANTI AESTHETIC PRIESTS DESTROYING OUR CULTURE ONE BY ONE – SAD END OF AN ICONIC MOSQUE OF LAHORE, MASJID IFRAZ KHAN
HISTORY OF LAHORE IS TALES OF WAR AND PEACE – AMAZING ATISH-HUKAS (GRENADES) OF LAHORE
THE ROYAL CHAMAR SWEEPERS OF SHAHJAHANABAD RED FORT – REAL OWNERS OF PROPERTIES INTERMINGLING WITH MUGHALS – A SMALL STEP TOWARDS RACIAL INTEGRATION IN THE REGION.
A REPORT OF FOREIGN PRESS ON M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – THE LONDON TIMES 1976 WORLD OF ISLAM FESTIVAL ANALYSIS
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI’S DAILY COMPANIONS OF CHILDHOOD – PLAYING FRIENDS FROM MOTHERS SIDE, MERAJ UD DIN (PAA MAJA)
THE CONCEPT OF KARUNS OF THE WORLD AND OBSESSION WITH WEALTH – THE QURAN TEACHES US WHAT ACCUMULATION DOES TO MINDS OF PEOPLE
THE TREASURE OF PENCIL SKETCHES OF LEAD SWORD: “IF I LIVE TO EIGHTY YEARS – I CANNOT ACTUALLY COMPLETE MY STARTED WORKS FOR ANOTHER EIGHTY YEARS”
GHAZNI AND GHOR DIVERSE BUT BOTH ATTACHED TO LAHORE – SULTAN GHIYASUDDIN GHAURI AND SHAHABUDDIN GHAURI – CHANGED THE DESTINY OF ISLAM IN THE THEN HINDUSTAN.
DIGGING UP THE PAST OF MUGHALS AND GETTING READY FOR SURPRISES – SUPRIYA GANDHI QUEST TO OPEN FESTERING WOUNDS OF DARA SHUKOH
CAUGHT BETWEEN THE RACE FOR CULTURAL PROPAGATION OF PAKISTAN – USA AND USSR VYING FOR REAL ATTENTION OF PRESIDENT ZIA UL HAQUE
PROPOSAL FROM AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS WASHINGTON DC – POST MARKED 31ST JANUARY, 1947, EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE PAKISTAN
SHARING A WONDERFUL ARTICLE ON CORONA AND THE QURAN – WITH DUE THANKS DR EJAZ RASOOL OF GLASGOW. MUST READ!
IN MEMORY OF HASSAN YAR JANG, LOVER OF ALLAMA IQBAL AND QUAID E AZAM – AND LOVER OF ARTIST M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI TILL THE VERY LAST (BOOK 1978)
GREAT ESCAPE OF MIRZA JAHAN KHUSRO SON OF AKBAR SANI – HAJI MUHAMMED ISHAQUE DESCENDANT OF GREAT MUGHALS
THE YEAR 1923 IS A VERY HISTORICAL YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF LAHORE FORT – PRESENCE OF ENGLISH GARRISON CAME TO AN END AND START OF THOROUGH RESEARCH FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA MR R. HARGREAVES
A TECHNICAL WIZARD OF LAHORE NAMELY ‘MASTER KEY’ HASSAN DIN – COUSIN OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AND OF FAMOUS RAILWAY FAMILY
A TILE MOSAIC OF LAHORE FORT HINTING EMPEROR JAHANGEER – PERHAPS, PERHAPS NOT, BUT EXCITING TO DISCOVER SUBJECTS
A MENTION OF COFFINS OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AND SHAKIR ALI – VERY STRANGE DISCUSSION IN A LECTURE AT LITERARY FESTIVAL LAHORE
A TRAIL FROM THE PAST, A TRAIL TO THE FUTURE: – TRACING REMNANTS, AND PUTTING A BLUE PLAQUE TO ANCESTRAL HOME OF CHUGHTAI ARTIST – CONGRATULATIONS TO MS FAUZIA QURESHI FOR INITIATING IMPOSSIBLE
A ONE MAN SHOW OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI IN LONDON 1966 – COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE ATTEMPTED SABOTAGE BY INSIDERS
A PRINCESS WITH WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE AT HER OWN DOOR STEPS – THE AMAZING INTELLECT OF ZEBUNNISA DAUGHTER OF ALAMGEER
“WHAT IS ART WITHOUT THE STRIKING POWER OF THE MOSES STAFF!” – THE GAME OF LOBBIES STARTED FROM DAY ONE, MEDIA IMPOTENCE,TO CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF THE NATION. TAHIR LAHOOTI ALWAYS FREE.
ART COLLECTIONS WORLD CARRY UNIDENTIFIED BEHZAD LAHORI – NO ONE WILLING TO GIVE CREDIT TO LAHORE AND ITS PAINTERS
THE CANADIAN MS ROSIE GABRIELLE EMBRACES ISLAM – THE CHARISMA OF MUHAMMED ASAD STILL WORKING
THE CLAY MOULDING MASTERS OF LAHORE – THE MIND BOGGLING DRAWING AESTHETICS
ENIGMA OF BASQUE COUNTRY PEOPLE WITH AN ISOLATED CULTURE – YES, DIFFERENT DNA, LANGUAGE AND YET WITH ISLAMIC INFLUENCE.
THE STRANGE COINCIDENCE OF BASQUE AND LAHORI HEAD DRESS, CAN THERE BE CONNECTION OF ANY KIND BETWEEN TWO SOCIETIES
A GROUP IN LAHORE TO PROPAGATE URDU LANGUAGE – NIAZMANDAN LAHORE AND ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THE BEGINNING OF CHERUBS IN WESTERN ART – IMPOSING ANTI AESTHETICS ON THE MUGHALS
JUST TIRED OF HEARING THIS RUT ABOUT HYBRID WAR – QURANIC TEACHINGS ENOUGH FOR ALL KIND OF WARS.
A KASHMEERI POETESS OF GREAT MERIT, TANDRA DEVI – TRIBUTES BY HAFEEZ JULLUNDRI, DR JAMES COUSENS ETC
A UNIQUE GALLERY OF PAINTINGS ON WALLS OF LAHORE FORT AS TILE MOSAICS – NOTHING IN HISTORICAL NOTES BUT START TO PERIOD OF EMPEROR JAHANGEER
CONVERSION OF PRINCE DULEEP SINGH INTO CHRISTIANITY – PROJECT OF JOHN AND LENA LOGIN KILLA DAR LAHORE FORT
THE UNKNOWN MAZAR OF SUFI MASTER IN LAHORE FORT REVISITED – SOME RAREST PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AROUND FORTY YEARS BACK
A HARDLY KNOWN CHUGHTAI SHOW AT HOUSE OF BEGUM SHAHNAWAZ, ARTICLE ON CHUGHTAI ART BY RAZIA SIRAJUDDIN BEFORE EUROPEAN TOUR
VARIOUS MUGHAL ANGELS ON THE TILE MOSAICS OF LAHORE FORT – NOT EVEN ONE BABY CHERUB TO DISMAY TO THOSE REINTERPRETING
AND WHAT REALLY PAKISTAN ARMY CAN DO TO STOP THIS CHARADE – FROM SPREADING TO AN EMOTIONAL AWAM NOT WILLING TO SEE REASON
UNIQUE PRESENTATION CUP MADE IN LAHORE 17TH CENTURY – PRESENTED TO ALI MARDAN KHAN BY EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN
AN ADDITIONAL DOCUMENT OF MASJID WAZEER KHAN – SYED BUTE SHAH THE LAST OF THE ORIGINAL MUTAVALLIS
DEATH OF FORMER MAYOR PARIS, PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, JACQUES CHIRAC GENTLEMAN EXTRAORDINARY FRIEND OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
ENGLISH FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES IN LONDON – ART GIFTS FOR ARTIST M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A GERMAN ARTIST LADY AT THE GERMAN PAVILION IN PARIS IN 1937 – FEW DAYS WITH ART GROUP IN BERLIN LED BY MANUELLA HARTUNG
SELF INDICTMENT HAS BECOME A HABIT OF CERTAIN KIND OF PAKISTANIS – DEMONIZING OURSELVES NEEDLESSLY AS PART OF MASSIVE PROPAGANDA
A SYMPOSIUM OF NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION BUREAU 1961 – INTELLECTUALS OF PAKISTAN GUIDING NATION ON CHARACTER
INTELLECTUALS MADE PAKISTAN FOR RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM, STREET SMART MORONS CAPTURED PAKISTAN AS A HOSTAGE
ABDAL MALEK NAQASH AND MUHANDIS ARCHITECT OF MASUDI PALACE – GEM OF GHAZNI CITY AT THE HANDS OF A GRAND ARCHITECT OF HIS TIME
WE HAVE GOETHE, SAID HITLER. WE HAVE IQBAL, SAID CHUGHTAI. – MEETING OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI WITH ADOLF HITLER 1937.
NUR ULLAH AHMAD ARCHITECT AND CALLIGRAPHER ROYAL SHAHJAHANI – TWO IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPTS IN COLLECTION OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE “HOLY SINNER” SADEQUAIN – AS RECORDED BY HIS DISCIPLE ANWAR IQBAL IN “JHANG”
SOME LANDA BAZAAR RELICS IN ARCHIVES – A SWORD AND THE HEAD OF A MUGHAL STICK
THE MISSING LINK IN DISCUSSION ON THE FIVE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES OF RAJA JAI SINGH: KHAIRULLAH KHAN MUHANDIS SON OF LUTUFULLAH AHMAD
IN SEARCH OF ACTUAL VISUAL IDENTITY OF MIAN MUHAMMED SULTAN TEKHAYDAR – CONFUSION WITH INTRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPH FROM AHMADIYA ARCHIVES
A BRONZE LAMP IN IMAM REZA SHRINE MADE IN LAHORE – PRESENTED BY EMPEROR HUMAYOUN TO SHRINE IN 946 AH
HAJI MUHAMMED SAEED LAHORI BURIED IN MOHALLA DULLA WARI – SHARH OF DALAIL UL KHAIRAT WRITTEN BY HIS DISCIPLE OBAIDULLAH
A DIFFICULT PERIOD IN LAHORE AND STRANGELY – ARTISTIC AND LITERARY ACTIVITIES ABOUND ALL
ADDENDA TO BLOG MUHAMMED RAFIQUE
A LOST COUSIN OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI, MUHAMMED RAFI ENGINEER – ADVISER, AND MINISTER OF SHAH SAUD AND CUSTODIAN OF HIS NINE SONS
CHIRAGH BIBI MOTHER OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI ARTIST – SOME EXCEPTIONAL EPISODES IN LIFE OF MOTHER AND SON
AN INTERESTING RECORD IN AMERICAN NARRATIVE OF QUESTIONING MINDS – GUY DAVENPORT, HUGH KENNER AND PAKISTANI ARIF RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A WAVE OF PAKISTANI PAINTERS WHO JUMPED ON TO THE BAND WAGON OF THE WEST FOR REASONS – CAN SUCH IMITATION EVER PRODUCE GREAT ART?
QAZI AHMAD ISLAMIC HISTORIAN OF PAINTERS AND CALLIGRAPHERS – MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE OF ORIGINAL INFORMATION ON ISLAMIC ARTS
THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD TERRY CHAPLAIN OF SIR THOMAS ROE – TALKS MOSTLY OF HINDUSTAN ONLY A CHAPTER ON JAHANGEER
A CONDOLENCE SEMINAR AT NCA 31ST JANUARY, 1975 – ARTIST ZAHOOR UL AKHLAQ ORGANIZER OF THE EVENT
YES CONVERSION MANIACS HOUNDING THE MUGHAL EMPERORS – RESULT ZERO, ALL OF THEM DIED AS BORN, MUSLIMS TO THE CORE
SITUATION OF CHUGHTAI ART IN INDIA AFTER PARTITION IN 1947 – AMAZING GUTTERISH ANALYSIS BY A BOMBAY CRITIC: “IT STINKS”
PRIDE OF LAHORE, MIAN SALAH MIMAR CHAUGHATA, ARCHITECT AND RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR DIED 11TH MAY 1858
WILL AND POWER BASIS OF VIGILANCE OF A MUSLIM GENERAL – ALL VALUES STEMMING OUT OF THE IDEOLOGY OF THE QURAN
BIGOTRY OF SOME HINDU WRITERS CLOUDING THEIR ABILITY TO JUDGE CHUGHTAI ART – RIDICULING THEIR OWN SELF RATHER THAN THE ARTIST M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THE SIX INSCRIPTIONS ON THE AKBARI BRIDGE JAUNPUR OF MUNIM KHAN – A FORGOTTEN NADIR UL ASAR USTAD AFZAL ALI KABULI ARCHITECT OF SAME
OUR MASTER PAINTERS ON THE SAME TRAGIC THEME OF MUGHAL HISTORY – THE DEATH OF EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN BESIDES HIS DAUGHTERS IN AGRA FORT
EVERY DAY YOU HEAR PEOPLE PREDICTING THE FUTURE NULLIFYING ALLAH’S RAHMAT – HUMAN BEINGS ARE ASHRAF UL MAKLOOQAT ONLY BEINGS GIVEN POWER OF CHOICE
A SHORT EPISODE IN LITHOGRAPHIC TRAINING OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA HEADQUARTERS IN CITY OF CALCUTTA – 21ST JULY TO 4TH SEPTEMBER 1919 A TOTAL OF AROUND 43 DAYS OF ETCHING
FOUR AMAZING VIEWS OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI -FEW WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE SAME TODAY
THE IMPULSE TO ADORN NIKAH NAMAS WITH ISLAMIC AESTHETICS – TRADITION BEING REVIVED AT PLACES AND ROLE OF LAHORE ARTISTS
A FUNCTION IN LAHORE 17TH FEBRUARY 1917 IN COMMEMORATION – KHAN BAHADUR TITLE SIRAJUDDIN PUBLISHER KASHMEERI BAZAAR – INVITATION OF YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A MEMORY OF A FAMOUS HINDU FROM LAHORE – LALA MELA RAM 1876 AND 1886 RAI BAHADUR
THE INSECURITY OF WESTERN SCHOLARSHIP ABOUT ISLAMIC ART OBSESSED WITH TRYING TO PROVE EUROPEAN ART INSPIRATION – AND YET WESTERN PAINTERS THEMSELVES SUCCUMBED TO AURA OF MUSLIM ARTISTS FROM REMBRANDT TO STREET PAINTERS
AN OFFICIAL RECORD OF RECONCILIATION OF HINDU MUSLIM NATIONS – ATTEMPTED IN COINS ISSUED AT MAHMUDPUR (LAHORE) BY SULTANS
AN UNKNOWN ARAB MOHALLA IN LAHORE OF 10TH CENTURY – CENTURIES OF ACCUMULATED PREJUDICE CANNOT GO AWAY
THAT BIGOTED RELIGIOUS AND LIBERAL SECULAR FANATICS – DOING WRONG TO OUR ISLAMIC VALUES AND WELL BEING
PRESIDENT ISKANDER MIRZA SPONSORS COLLOQUIUM OF ISLAMIC SCHOLARS – REMARKABLE MOVEMENT FOR ISLAMIC REFORMATION 29TH DECEMBER 1957
MUHAMMED SHAREEF LAHORI SON OF KHAWAJAH ABDUL SAMAD – MUSSAWAR SHAHI EMPEROR AKBAR AND EMPEROR JAHANGEER
EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT WAZEER KHAN MOSQUE – NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT WAZEER KHAN
THE FIRST ANNUAL SHOW OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM – 17TH JANUARY 1976 AND PRIMARY LESSONS OF LIFE
MANY MUGHAL MINIATURES CARRY NAME OF BEHZAD LAHORI, AS INSCRIPTIONS ON THE ART WORKS THEMSELVES BUT SADLY DISMISSED BY WESTERN SCHOLARS BY COMPARISON WITH USTAD KAMALUDDIN BEHZAD, WHO IS NATURALLY DIFFERENT PAINTER
WHEN ALLAH HAS NOT SHARED WITH US THE TIME OF OUR DEATH, HOW CAN ALLAH SHARE THE TIME OF DEATH THE END OF ALL OF US
A SHORT REVIEW OF CLAUS-PETER HAASE ANALYSIS OF THE MUGHAL WORK – REPENTANCE OF MARY MAGDALENE AS NADIRA BANOS, AND THAT NOT SO
THE VISIT OF DOST MUHAMMED MUSSAWAR TO LAHORE – IN SEARCH OF PRINCE HUMAYOUN’S PATRONAGE OF ART
THE LASTING BEAUTY OF FAMILY LIFE IN PAKISTAN – NOT ABANDONED AT ALL AMIDST FOREIGN HYPE
AN ARISTOCRATIC DISDAIN FOR THE PLEASURES OF COMMON MAN – THE ANIMOSITY TOWARDS BASANT IS ACTUALLY CLEARLY RAW DEAL
CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN AS QUAID-E-AZAM WANTED IT – BASED ON FRENCH CONSTITUTION AND MUHAMMED ASAD
A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN SOURCE OF QURANIC MANUSCRIPTS – THE TREASURE IN THE LIBRARY OF AL-AQSA MOSQUE JERUSALEM
THE REMARKABLE SULTANATE HAND GRENADES OF LAHORE – A FISH SHAPED AESTHETIC BEAUTY OF AN ATISH-HUQA (BOMB)
LEADERS OF IRAN TURKEY PAKISTAN FEBRUARY 1960 IN LAHORE – SHAHENSHAH OF IRAN, CELAL BAYER AND PRESIDENT AYUB KHAN
GHAZNAVID SECRET SERVICE DIWAN-BARID OF LAHORE – REPORT OF HISTORIAN TAJ-UD-DIN HASSAN NIZAMI
INTELLECTUALIZING MIR JAFFERS IN PRESENT FOLK LORE – HEROES NOBODIES AND NOBODIES HEROES GAME PLAN
FOREIGN LOBBIES WITH DOOMSDAY NARRATION, DESTROYING OPTIMISM OF OUR YOUTH NEEDLESSLY
SPREADING LOVE, PEACE AND INFORMATION – MALICE AND ATTACKS SO VISIBLE TO ALL OF US – PAKISTAN AS WELL AS CHUGHTAI MUSEUM UNDER ATTACK
SEGMENTS OF LAHORE ABOUT YEAR 1880 – YES SIMPLICITY PERSONIFIED ALL AROUND
THE HOAX OF MANDIR OF LOH NEVER INVESTIGATED SCIENTIFICALLY, SO MANY THINGS ARE CLEAR EVEN WITH SIMPLE PHYSICAL ANALYSIS
SECRET LOBBIES HAUNT ANYONE WITH LOVE FOR PAKISTAN – SEASONAL INFO GATHERERS SURROUND US ALL THE TIME
THE RAVAGES OF WAR ENGENDER THE REALIZATION FOR PEACE – ISLAMIC ARTS HAVE IDEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND TO STOP CHAOS – SOOTHING THE TIRED NERVES OF HUMANKIND FOR HARMONY
THE PROVERBIAL ICON OF LAHORE M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI, MISSED MENTIONS ARE DELIBERATE OR MERE IGNORANCE
THE NEW BREED OF CULTURAL TERRORISM – REVITALIZE DEAD CULTURE NOT LIVING ONE – THE ENIGMA OF THE PAKISTANI MORON
THE BEAT OF CURRENCY WARS BEING FELT IN LAHORE – OBVIOUSLY OUR ART AND CULTURE WILL SUFFER MOST
A VIDEO ON THE MAUSOLEUM OF SUFI SAINT IN LAHORE FORT – FOR THOSE WHO HAD NO ACCESS TO SAME IN RECENT TIMES
WESTERN EXPERTS LACK EVEN BASIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CHUGHTAI ARTIST – COUPLED WITH ARROGANCE NOT TO CONSULT THE SOURCE OF THE ARTIST
THE PHENOMENA OF HORSES IN INDO-PAKISTANI REGION AND HARDLY USED BY HINDUS AND JAINS IN WAR AND LIFE: IMAGERY OF ELEPHANTS AS HINDU GODS AND IN BATTLES
LEGENDARY HASSAN NIZAMI AND MAH RANA IN LAHORE 1926 – 100,000 LAHORIS RECEIVED THEM AT RAILWAY STATION LAHORE
MEN, WOMEN, TRANSGENDERS: ALL ARE EQUAL IN EYES OF ALLAH – BUT ALL ARE NOT SAME, DIFFERENT IN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS
A SAD END TO A GREAT DREAM OF A MUSEUM – FYZEE RAHAMIN AND HIS GALLERY IN KARACHI
THE INEVITABLE CURSE OF THIS SO CALLED DEMOCRACY – DIVIDING THE NATION INTO UNCONTROLLABLE GROUPS
YES, HUNDREDS OF MINIATURES LYING IN WESTERN COLLECTIONS – OUTRIGHT FAKES BUT LITERALLY NOT UNDERSTOOD FOR REASONS
AMAZING WESTERN SCHOLARS BIGOTRY DENYING MOSES HIMSELF – AND SHOVING THUTMOSE II OR EVEN AKHENATEN AS THE PHARAOH
A FORGOTTEN ARCHITECT OF AITCHISON COLLEGE COMPLEX – MASTER ZIAUD DIN CHUGHTAI HEAD DRAWING DEPARTMENT
HAZRAT NUH (NOAH), FLOOD AND THE QURANIC NARRATIVE – BIGOTED SCHOLARS DO NOT EVEN LOOK AT ULTIMATE TRUTH
ALL PEACE INITIATIVES START WITH ACCEPTANCE, NO ONE LIKES AMITY IN RELATION OF NATIONS
THE NUISANCE OF BARKING DOGS IS UNBEARABLE NOW – PERHAPS BARKING DOGS SELDOM BITE BUT DEGRADING – THE SPIRITUAL IDEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN BEYOND BEARING
NO VALOUR OR PRINCIPLES IN HYBRID WARS EVER GOING, ZOMBIES ON FOREIGN PAYROLL GENERATING CONFUSIONS
1937 A RIDICULOUS OFFER OF RUPEES TWO EACH FOR ENTIRE EDITION, OF CHUGHTAI’S PAINTINGS BY RAMA KRISHNA BOOK SELLERS LAHORE: REBUKE BY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI OVER BANIA PREJUDICIAL ATTITUDE
THE TURMOIL OF FORSAKING UNITY, FAITH AND DISCIPLINE – RELEASE THE DOVE HAZRAT NOAH, LET GOOD TIDINGS COME
A LITTLE KNOWN KHUTBA OF DR ALLAMA IQBAL ON EID DAY, YEAR 1932 AD (1350 AH) AT THE BADSHAHI MOSQUE LAHORE
CHANGING DATES OF FIRST EDITION OF “CHUGHTAI’S PAINTINGS” – THE YEAR REVISED FROM 1939 TO 1938 ON NEW INFORMATION
NO ONE HAS DWELT INTO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LAHORE – HAS ANYONE EVER TALKED ABOUT THE SKELETAL REMAINS?
From Archives
MIAN SALAH MIMAR AN ARCHITECT REPUTED TO HAVE LIVED FOR 120 YEARS, DESCENDANT OF USTAD AHMAD LAHORI, AND ANCESTOR OF CHUGHTAI ARTIST.
CHANGING HISTORICAL NARRATIVES WITH LACK OF DOCUMENTATION – AGONY OF MANUSCRIPT CHACHNAMA IN VEINS OF FOREIGN LOBBIES
MANY CONFUSIONS CLEARED BY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE – WALI NAIMAT BEGUM, MOTHER OF EMPEROR JAHANGEER
A DILEMMA OF THE WORLD TRYING TO RECONCILE DIFFERENT VERSIONS, THEORIES OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS ON MARS VERSUS OFFICIAL PAREIDOLIA
MODERN ARTISTS AND WRITERS INDULGE IN CHAOS AND ANARCHY – MODERN SO CALLED INTELLECTUALS FREAK OUT AND SPIN TALES
PROSTRATING IN FRONT OF ALLAH AND SO CALLED ALIEN, AN INEVITABLE CLASH OF IDEOLOGY IN VISION OF ARTISTS
FATAL JOURNEY OF PRINCESS SAHIB JAMAL FROM KABUL TO LAHORE – DEATH, BURIAL, MAUSOLEUM, AND THEN CENTURIES OF CONFUSION – IN THE BLISSFUL GARDEN OF “ANARAN” POMEGRANATES IN LAHORE
THE SOLUTION TO WORLD PEACE LIES NOT IN EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY – POLITICIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD LACK COMPASSION FOR SUCH AN EVENT
WELL KNOWN CRUCIFIXION IN LAHORE FORT IN BHUTTO’S PERIOD – JOURNALIST YUNUS PINNED TO A WOOD BOARD BY HALAKU KHAN
AN ART FESTIVAL IN LAHORE AND JOURNALIST BILAL QURESHI, A BOLD STEP OF INQUIRY TO ENTER A PARALLEL WORLD OF ART.
BATTLE OF IDEAS CONVERTED INTO QUEST FOR RESOURCES – GREED DESTROYING COMPASSION GLOBALLY FOR OTHERS
SPLASH ART IN PAKISTAN ON POLITICAL AGENDAS – THE ZENITH OF ART GIMMICKRY AND ART ANIMALS
EVEN THE EVERY DAY USE LOTA REFLECTS IN CLEAR TERMS – THE TWO NATION THEORY AND THAT IS INDEED AMAZING
ALLAMA ASAD ON WHY PAKISTAN IN 1948 – NO WONDER QUAID LOVED HIM GREATLY
DISTORTING HISTORY FAVOURITE GAME OF EXTREMIST HINDU WRITERS – SULTAN ALLAUDDIN KHILJI NOT AT ALL AS REPRESENTED IN FOR LOUGHS
A FORGOTTEN VIEWSPAPER STAR BOMBAY FOUNDED BY QUAID E AZAM – INITIAL ISSUES INCLUDED AN ARTICLE ON ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THE GRAND ISLAMIC RECONSTRUCTION IDEAS OF PAKISTAN – QUAID-E-AZAM, G.A. PERVEZ AND ALLAMA ASAD 1946-1948
A NEUROSURGEON’S JOURNEY IN THE AFTERLIFE – IN SHORT A REAL SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF HEAVEN
A KENNEDY QUOTE THAT REVERBERATED – IN PAKISTAN IN ALL WAYS, SURELY A LESSON FOR US EVEN TODAY
DR ALLAMA IQBAL, QUAID-E-AZAM AND GHULAM AHMED PERVAIZ – ALL THREE LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF RECONSTRUCTION IN ISLAM
THE LONG LOST NEGLECT OF LAHORE BY WESTERN CIRCLES. BEING OVERCOME BY NEW EMPHASIS ON LAHORE ARTISTS
THE SHADOW OF EVIL OVER PAKISTAN AND NIGHTMARES, THE WILL TO ERADICATE WITH MANY BUT STRENGTH NONE
THE RANSACKING OF OLD FORT WILLIAMS BY SIRAJ UD DAULA – THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA AND DEATH OF 133 BRITISHERS
REMEMBERING A NERVE SHATTERING DAY IN OUR LIFE – 17TH JANUARY 1975, THE DEATH OF CHUGHTAI ARTIST
A HINDU FRIEND OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – RAVISHANKAR RAVAL THE ARTIST FROM GUJARAT
GERMAN AMBASSADOR DR KLAUS TERFLOTH COMES CALLING – THE ART SHOW AT THE GERMAN EMBASSY IN ISLAMABAD
ALLAH THE AL-MUSSAWAR HAS MADE BEAUTY UNIVERSAL – THE BEAUTY OF PAKISTAN LIES IN ITS IDEA OF INCEPTION
MEDIA HYPOCRISY THERE AS TRUTH MATTERS TO NONE YES, PRESIDENT ZIA UL HAQUE WAS CHERISHED BY MANY
THE IMMORTAL CHUGHTAI PAINTING “TOO LATE” THAT STARTED IT ALL – LED TO FORMAL INTRODUCTION TO DR ALLAMA IQBAL OF THE ARTIST
A REMEMBRANCE OF MISS TARA CHOUDHRI CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCER – KNOWN AS ANNA PAVLOVA OF LAHORE AND ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THE TWO FRIENDLY CHATTERJEES IN THE LIFE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI LAHORE – EDITOR MODERN REVIEW CALCUTTA AND PRINCIPAL MISSION SCHOOL GUJARANWALA
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE ATTENDED THE CHUGHTAI SHOW IN ALHAMRA 1968-1969 – THE LEVEL OF INTEREST SHOWN BY PEOPLE WAS TREMENDOUS IN THOSE TIMES
OBVIOUSLY CHUGHTAI IS THE GREATEST ARTIST OF PAKISTAN, SAID EHRENFELD; BUT I WILL MAKE HIM A HOUSEHOLD WORD IN ART WORLD OF USA BY MY WAY.
ORIGIN OF LAHORE ACCORDING TO AHMAD HASAN DANI, – SCHOLARLY RESEARCH BY HIM ESTABLISHES “CITY ON RAVI”
LITTLE KNOWN REFERENCE OF ALI HUJWIRI’S TOMB IN LAHORE – FROM CHANDAR BHAN BRAHMAN, MUNSHI OF DARA SHIKOH
ART OF SURVIVAL WE LEARNT LONG AGO, THE RESILIENCE OF OUR NATION PAKISTAN
TODAY ARCHAEOLOGY HAS AN ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING WITHOUT DIGGING – YES, WE HAVE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR IS ANSWER TO GRAVE RESEARCH
IMAGINE HARTAL IN LAHORE ON ASSASSINATION OF MAHATMA GANDHI – ON 31ST JANUARY 1948 SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, OFFICES CLOSED IN LAHORE
THE LUDICROUS RANT OF ENEMIES ABOUT THE FUTURE OF PAKISTAN – TOTAL FAILURES EATING NEEDLESSLY MONEY OF FOREIGN LOBBIES
CHUGHTAI PAINTINGS AT GOVERNOR HOUSE LAHORE – SIX OUT OF TWELVE REMAINING, PRESENT UNKNOWN
CHUGHTAI ART IN EMBROIDERY AS FASHION – BASIC LISTING OF EMBROIDERS IN PAKISTAN
DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND, HELEN KELLER SURVIVED IT ALL – THE VISIT OF HELEN KELLER TO LAHORE IN THE YEAR 1955
MUHAMMED KHAN A FORGOTTEN HERO MARTYR OF WORLD WAR ONE – DEBRIS OF A HOUSE IN LAHORE REVEALS MEDAL SENT BY KING GEORGE
AN UNKNOWN TURKISH SULTANATE PRINCESS OF LAHORE – IS SHE SISTER OF AYAZ WHO MARRIED SULTAN MAHMUD?
INDEPENDENCE DAY OF PAKISTAN 14TH AUGUST, 1947 – THE CONFUSION OF 15TH AUGUST AS POSSIBLE DATE
GOD MADE THE COUNTRY AND MAN MADE THE TOWN – A PROPOSAL OF CELEBRATING PAINDO DAY: HA HA HA
ARE THERE SONIC BOOMS OVER PAKISTAN – UNNATURAL RATS UPRISING SUGGESTS SO
FATHER OF URDU LANGUAGE IN OUR REGION – HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN AULIA AND AMIR KHUSRO
TEACHING US OBJECTIVITY ABOUT OUR SUBJECTIVITY – OBJECTIVITY THAT IS SIMPLY THEIR OWN SUBJECTIVITY
YES, BROKEN APART FROM US BY DECEIT AND FORCE – ARE OUR BENGAL BRETHREN HAPPIER THAN BEFORE?
CULTURAL POLICY OF PAKISTAN THROUGH FOREIGN AGENDAS – REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO DIFFUSE OUR IDEOLOGICAL FOOTING
MIRZA IBDAL BAIG LAHORI AURANGZEBS FAVOURITE KOTWAL – FROM LAHORE TO AURANGABAD TO SHAHJAHANAABAD
A TIME WITHOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE – INSPIRATION OF THE ENGLISH ADMINISTRATOR – THE BEGINNINGS IN 1781 AD
THE CHARISMA OF DIGNITY IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN – UNCOUTHS SHOUTING ABOUT LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS
REVELATION OF TWO INSCRIPTIONS NEAR SOMANTH MANDIR – A FLOURISHING MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN HEALTHY EXISTENCE
CAN AN ENEMY’S NARRATIVE BE BENIGN FOR US? – ONLY SATANS BUDGE FROM QURANIC NARRATIVE!
BABA HIYADATULLAH OF MOHALLA CHABUK SAWARAN LAHORE – THE PUNJABI POET OF GREAT STATUS, WRITER OF HEER RANJHA
THE ATTACK ON LAHORE (1043-1049) BY COMBINED HINDU RAJAS
MARASIS AND PHANDS INVASION OF OUR DRAWING ROOMS – EVERY DAY MEDIA PATRONIZING VULGARITY IN OUR HOMES
THE TRADITION OF PEHLAWANS IN LAHORE – NO LONGER THE GRANDEUR OF YESTERYEARS
FEARING FAILURE IS OKAY BUT LETTING FEAR OVER RIDE IS SUICIDAL – WARS ARE NOT WON BY SUCCUMBING TO SCENARIOS OF DEFEATS
THE GOOD CHARACTER OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ROCKED THE CIVILIZED WORLD – VIBRATIONS RECEIVED IN LAHORE EVEN IN THOSE TIMES OF MORAL CORRECTNESS
UNIMAGINABLE TODAY A RUSSIAN OCCULTIST IN LAHORE – ROSICRUCIAN MADAME HELENA BLAVATSKY 1856 AND 1880
AN AMAZING DOCUMENT OF MUSLIM CARING OF CHRISTIANS COMMUNITY – YES, ACHTINAME SECOND YEAR OF HIJRA BY PROPHET MUHAMMED (PBUH)
ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION DRIVEN TOWARDS CULTURAL EXPRESSION – POSSIBLY EARLIEST ILLUMINATED QURAN IN EXISTENCE 680-720 AD
PASHA THE FORGOTTEN GUIDE WHO LED AUREL STEIN TO MIRAN – AND HOST OF OTHERS WHO ULTIMATELY GOT NO CREDIT AT ALL
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AND THE CHUGHTAI SCHOOL OF ART – NOT TRADITIONAL, NOT MODERN: JUST PURE CHUGHTAI ART
YES, THE GOSPEL OF DEMOCRACY IS SLOWLY BEING SHATTERED – THE BEST OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONS BRINGING UP NINCOMPOOPS
ONE ALLAH, ONE PROPHET (PBUH), ONE NATION – UNIQUENESS OF PAKISTAN IN NATIONAL POLITY
AN EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATION IN LAHORE 1905 – AS DEADLY AS THE QUETTA EARTHQUAKE OF 1904
OFF SHOOTS OF BACCHUS AND FORMULAS OF REVELRY MAKING US FEEL ASHAMED OF OUR OWN VALUES OF MODESTY AND VIRGINITY
WHO RAVES AGAINST PAKISTAN AND PAKISTAN ARMY? BROKEN HOMES, INSECURITY, AND MOST OF ALL GREED.
FRIENDSHIPS WITH ALL BUT IDEOLOGUE LEAVING FOR NONE – RISE PAKISTAN RISE AGAINST INTERNAL ENEMIES FIRST OF ALL
LIONEL HEATH AND THE HONOURABLE MEN AT MAYO SCHOOL OF ARTS – IRRITATIONS, RESIGNATION AND INDIGNATION SURROUNDING ARTIST
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST – CONTRASTING REPULSION AND LOVE OF PIGS
AN INSCRIPTION OF PERIOD OF RAJA JAYAPALA OF UDABHANDAPURA (HUND) – PERHAPS THIS LAHORE WAS NEVER EVEN THEIR DOMAIN AS ONE EXISTS THERE
THE ENIGMA OF A MISSING GATE OF LAHORE CITY – A SECOND RATIONAL ATTEMPT AT IDENTIFICATION
THE OBSESSION OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI WITH STUDY OF VAN GOGH – THE BOOK, THE FILM, THE URDU TRANSLATION ALL IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS
THE STRANGE COINCIDENCE OF ASIAN ART AND ARTISTS ON SIMILAR TRAIL – M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AND MAI TRUNG VISIT TO FRANCE IN 1937-1938
WHEN NATIONS START BELITTLING CULTURAL EFFORTS OF OTHER NATION – THE HIDDEN STORY OF THE SHAH JAHAN PAVILION IN THE RED FORT DELHI
TRACING WHEREABOUTS OF UNKNOWN DARWAZA OF LAHORE – PERHAPS THE CLUE LIES IN THE ROSHANI DARWAZA OF LAHORE
THIS IS ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN, NOT A THEOCRATIC STATE!!!
IN TRADITION OF SIBERIAN OLDEST CARPETS – 17TH CENTURY CARPETS MADE IN LAHORE
MOST UNIQUE FIGURINE IN THE WORLD ADDS NEW DIMENSION – NAGUZZA OF LAHORE SUPPORTS LONG PIGTAILS AND FULL ARMOUR
BARKAT ALI KHAN MUHAMMEDAN HALL MOCHI GATE LAHORE – MISTRI MANGA CONTRACTOR ARCHITECT BUILDING IN 1888 AD
AN AMAZING REVELATION OF THE USE OF TERM QUAID-E-AZAM NEVER KNOWN! BEFORE MIAN FEROZUDDIN, K.A. HAMEED USED SAME FOR KAMAL ATTATURK PASHA – AND AMAZINGLY THIS WAS ALSO DONE IN LAHORE IN 1938/1939 IN THE SAME SPIRIT
A MIGRATION FROM LAHORE AND OTHER PARTS OF INDIA TO AFGHANISTAN – THAT NO ONE EVEN REMEMBERS AND A BIGGEST FIASCO OF ITS OWN TIMES
ZAKIA DIL MUHAMMED COMPLAINT ABOUT CALMNESS IN CHUGHTAI ART – AN ART DISCUSSION OF ART CIRCLE AT ALHAMRA JANUARY 14TH 1950
END OF RAMAZAN AND SIGHTING OF MOON – EVER CIRCLE OF LIFE BEGINS AND ENDS ANEW
THE ENDANGERED SPECIES OF ANGELS OF LAHORE – NOT ONE ANGEL LIKE THEM IN ANY PICTORIAL RECORD
THE VISIT OF SURAT SINGH TO THE MARI OF BABA GURU NANAK – UNIQUE RECORD IN MANUSCRIPT DATED 1055-57 AH 1645-47 AD
TWO GREEDY ENGLISHMEN COME TO INDIA STAR STRUCK – ANTICS BIZARRE OF WILLIAM HAWKINS AND WILLIAM FINCH
TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD DEAD SEA SCROLLS – PREDICTS IMMEDIATE SCENARIO OF DOOMSDAY
DEFRAGMENTING SAULAT AJMAL’S FRAGMENTED MEMORIES – THE VORTEX OF SPINNING IDENTITY AND ISLAMIC CULTU
OUR SHARING WITH OTHERS, LEAD OTHERS SHARE WITH US – AN ARCHAEOLOGIST SENT BIZARRE IMAGE FOR REFLECTION
THE SO CALLED ALI SINBADE KING OF LAHORE 1795 – FRENCH OFFICER CAPTAIN TRINQUART ACCOSTS HIM – A DYNAMIC SCENE FROM THE UNKNOWN PAST
A PRIVATE DIARY OF QUAID E AZAM’S VISIT TO LAHORE 1940
AN UNRECORDED AUTOGRAPH QURAN OF HAZRAT MIAN MEER LAHORI!
BY IMPOSING DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS ON PEOPLE IS NOTHING LESS THAN A SIN – UTILIZING JEWISH NARRATIVES AND HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULARS FOR PESSIMISM
IN THE FOOT STEPS OF THE LEGACY OF QUAID E AZAM – BEST RELATIONS WITH ALL AND WORLD PEACE IN FULL
ENIGMATIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES AND LACK OF QUESTIONS ABOUT ICONIC LEGACY – THERE WERE NO FINANCIAL PACKAGES OR GREED IN THE LEGACY OF ISLAMIC ICONS
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AT INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE HAGUE
THE 159TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF SALAH MIMAR CHAUGHATA – THE CREATIVE LEGACY IN LAHORE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THE SINISTER FACE OF A RAW LOBBY IN TARGET PRACTICE – DO NOT UNDERMINE THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN ALLAH
A CRY IN THE WILDERNESS TO A “RAB” WHO WILL NEVER GO AWAY – MANY A SULTAN CAME AND WENT THEIR WAY, AND HOPE REMAINED
“DO NOT GIVE UP!!”
Fourteen days of MENTAL and PHYSICAL TORTURE for us!
Azan
“DEMOLISH CHUGHTAI MUSEUM WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AND HAND OVER LAND TO US”
FORTY TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI CRIES AGAIN – GOVERNMENTAL PHARAOHS READY TO TOSS THROW HIS BONES IN THE AIR
BASOHLI SCHOOL CONSIDERED THE FOUNDATION OF NEW HINDU ART – AND YET BASOHLI ITSELF FOUNDED BY MUGHAL ARTISTS ON DEPUTATION
THE ROMANCE AND POWER OF JULIANNA AT MUGHAL COURT
THE NAME AL-MUSSAWAR ONE OF THE 99 ATTRIBUTES OF ALLAH – BOOK WITHIN FOR LIVING THINGS BOOK WITHOUT FOR HUMANS
AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ROYAL ARCHITECT OF LAHORE – NAMELY USTAD ABDUR RAHMAN SON OF IBRAHEEM MIMAR
A TRADITION OF TOWERS IN ISLAMIC SOCIETY – THE MINARET OF MILL E QASIMABAD IN SEISTAN
A MESSAGE FOR MUSLIM EID BY A SIKH CALLIGRAPHIST OF LAHORE
CONFUSING THE IDENTITY OF MALIKA BILQUIS BY DOUBT – EVEN PUTTING A QUESTION MARK ON HAZRAT SULAIMAN
THE KHANA KAABA OF MUSLIMS AND THE TABERNACLE OF JEWS, A LOT IN COMMON IN VISUAL IMPETUS AS WELL AS IN MEANING
THE MANY SIKH FRIENDS OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – LOVING PUNJABI BROTHERS IN ART AND LITERATURE
A MUGHAL DOOR STILL STANDING IN THE CITY, THE GRAND TRADITION OF THE CITY OF LAHORE
LAST YEARS OF DEPOSED EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN 1067 AH – A HOROSCOPE FOLIO OF A PALMIST GHULAM SHAH JAHAN
THE LEGEND OF LAVA AND KUSHA IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY – NOT EVEN THE REMOTEST LINK WITH OUR CITY LAHORE
FABLES OF BIDPAI TRANSLATED BY ABDUL MALI NASER ULLAH SHIRAZI – DEDICATED TO SULTAN BAHRAM SHAH, ILLUSTRATED FOR KHUSRAU MALIK
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF LORD KRISHNA IN CHANGING TIMES, WHEN DID FAMILIAR BLUE BODY AND YELLOW CLOTHES START?
CLASH OF ARMIES, CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS – MUGHAL INFLUENCES ON RAJAS OF UDAIPUR
AN UNKNOWN CHIEF ARCHITECT OF AURANGZEB’S TIME – MIR IMARAT AMANULLAH AND THE QAZI OF DELHI
THE DIGNITY OF DEATH IS NOT GIVEN TO ALL BY ALLAH – A FULFILLMENT OF LIFE SPENT FOR NATION IS DREAM OF EVERY SOLDIER
THE DAYS OF IKE AND AYUB, GOOD WILL AND LAUGHTER, THE ZENITH OF RELATIONS BETWEEN USA AND PAKISTAN
CONSTRUCTION OF IMARATS BY MIR IMARATS OF MEDIEVAL TIMES – AS OBSERVED BY THE LEGENDARY USTAD KAMAL UD DIN BEHZAD
ATTA ULLAH RUSHDI SON OF USTAD AHMAD MIMAR LAHORI, THE CHIEF ARCHITECT OF EMPEROR AURANGZEB ALAMGEER
THE CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN TREAT AHMADIS AS NON MUSLIMS – WE FOUND MANY AHMADIS BLAMING ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO FOR SAME – BUT FORGET THAT MIRZA GHULAM QADIANI HIMSELF WANTED SAME
UNLESS YOU SIT STILL AND CONTEMPLATE IN SILENCE – PIN DROP SILENCE AND THE SECRET OF BELGIAN NUNS
UNIQUE ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT FOR PRINCE KHUSRAU MALIK GHAZNAVI AROUND 1150 AD, WESTERN SCHOLARS RELUCTANT TO CREDIT LAHORE WITH THIS CREATION OF GHAZNI INSPIRED
THE NEED TO MEASURE LAND AND SPACE – EUCLID GREEK FATHER OF ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE
THE GRANDEUR OF MASJID MARYIAM ZAMANI LAHORE – ITS REMNANTS WITH MISTAKEN IDENTITIES TO THIS DAY
THE ERA OF GOLIATHS (JALOOTS) OF LAHORE – PRESERVED DEEP DOWN THE EARTH OF LAHORE
ADVERTISEMENTS MADE IN INDIA PROJECT INDIAN IDEOLOGY – BRING BACK OUR INDUSTRY BEFORE IT IS RUINED FOREVER
MANY REPAIRS TO BADSHAHI MOSQUE OVER THE AGES – WELDING OF THE PINNACLES OF THE MARBLE DOMES
SURELY WESTERN EXPERTS DO NOT KNOW THE INTRICACIES OF CHUGHTAI ART, MISPLACED EGOS PREVENT LISTENING TO THE GREATEST AUTHORITY ON CHUGHTAI ART
A RARE MENTION OF PRINCE AKBAR AS A PAINTER ON HIS MERITS – DREW PICTURE OF A CUT OFF BODY OF ENEMY “HEMU” IN HIS VISION
INAUGURATION OF LEGENDARY BOOK AMAL-E-CHUGHTAI AT ALHAMRA LAHORE – RARE RECORD 30TH DECEMBER 1968 COVERED BY ALL NEWSPAPERS IN PAKISTAN
THE TWO PRIZED POSSESSIONS OF THE SULTAN OF HERAT – KAMAL UD DIN BEHZAD MUSSAWAR AND KATIB MIR ALI SULTANI
KHATT NAKUN (NAIL WORK) OF BABA MIRAN BAKSH – NAIL WORK OF HIS STUDENT M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
HIDING BEHIND MUSLIM NAMES AND GREEN PASSPORTS – THE MISFITS WITH CAMOUFLAGE OF LIBERAL PROGRESSIVES
US AMBASSADOR ARNOLD RAPHAEL VISITS CHUGHTAI MUSEUM – THE ONLY AMERICAN AMBASSADOR WHO LIES BURIED IN ISLAMABAD
A MUGHAL ROYAL MANUSCRIPT FROM LIBRARY OF PRINCESS HAMIDA BANO, DATED 947 AH (1540 AD) ONE YEAR BEFORE HER MARRIAGE TO EMPEROR HUMAYOUN
THE PRESTIGE OF BEING INCLUDED IN A ROYAL ACADEMY SHOW – A RAREST EVENT FOR A MUSLIM ARTIST M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
MEMORABLE TWO UNKNOWN EXHIBITION SHOWS OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – JOINT SHOW HYDERABAD SINDH 1939 AND ONE MAN SHOW IN PESHAWER 1956
A STARTLING DIMENSION IN INSPIRATION IN SULTANATE PAINTING OF REGION – HAJI MAHMUD HERATI, PAINTER OF SULTAN NASIR SHAH KHALJI 1500-1510 AD
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARCHITECT GARDENER OF KHUSRAU BAGH – BY THE MUREED BA IKHLAS SALEEM SHAH, AGA REZA PAINTER
THE VARIED TREATMENT OF EMPEROR JAHANGEER IN PORTRAITURE – THREE MASTERS, BICHITER, REMBRANDT AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THE RISE OF ADINA BEG KHAN FROM PATAWARI TO GOVERNOR – PROPERTY OF ADINA BEG KHAN IN MOHALLA CHABUK SAWARAN
THE OBSESSION OF ISLAMIC RINGS – KING’S ROYALTY AS WELL AS COMMON PEOPLE
ABANINDARANATH TAGORE AND M. A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – THE VERY FIRST COMPARISON OF BOTH PAINTERS
THE MURDER OF FIFTEEN YEAR OLD SHAMSHAD BAI LAHORI – NAWAB NAWAZ KHAN OF DAB KALAN GOT AWAY WITH MURDER
THE BIZARRE CREDOS OF MODERN ARTISTS – DOES NUDITY LEADS TO SPIRITUALITY?
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRIME MINISTER LIAQUAT ALI KHAN – THE START OF A SEQUENCE TO DESTABILIZE THE COUNTRY
LALA HARKISHEN LAL GAUBA AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – PATRONAGE OF A RICH HINDU FOR A RISING MUSLIM ARTIST
A NATIONAL ART GALLERY IN LAHORE 2ND NOVEMBER 1958 – INITIATIVE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AT ALHAMRA COUNCIL
MISSING DOMES IN LAHORE MAUSOLEUMS – VARIOUS THEORIES VARIOUS CONCLUSIONS
SHAUKAT THANVI’S TRIBUTE TO M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – AN INDEPTH ANALYSIS BY A LEADING SATIRE WRITER
OUR HIS TORIANS USUALLY THINK OF MAQBARA OF NUR JAHAN- AS HAVING NO CLUES TO ORIGINAL STRUCTURE BUT ARE WRONG
IN SEARCH OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF PRINCESS ZEBUN NISA – RESEARCH OF SCHOLARS WASTED ON MORONIC CHARACTERS
ENTRAPMENT OF PAKISTANI RULERS CONCENTRATING ON PAKISTAN – THE CHRISTINE KEELER AFFAIR AND PRESIDENT AYUB KHAN’S SCANDAL
THE URS OF DATA DARBAR ALI HUJWERI IN LAHORE – CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES THROUGH THE AGES
A FORGOTTEN AMERICAN VISIT OF PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER – PM SUHARWARDY DESPERATE TRY TO SAVE HIS SEAT OF POWER
A FORGOTTEN AND “DISCARDED VOICE’ OF A MUSLIM REFORMER – MAJID SIDDIQI ENGLISH MASTER ISLAMIA HIGH SCHOOL LAHORE
CLUES OF JAINS IN LAHORE – RE JAIN MANDIR A DAILY WORD IN LAHORE
PRINCE OF WALES VISIT TO LAHORE 25TH FEBRUARY, 1922 – POLITICAL UNREST AND RIOTS WERE EXPECTED IN LAHORE
THE STRANGEST ROLE OF DANCING GIRLS AT MUGHAL HAREM – EMPERORS EVEN GAVE PRESENT OF DANCERS TO THEIR WIVES
THE PASSING OF SHAH JAHAN BY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – ALL NEW SIR CECIL BURN’S VERSION COMES TO LIGHT
THE GADD MAKERS OF LAHORE IN MOZANG AREA – CARRIAGE MAKING SPECIALTY OF TAR-KHANS
PRESIDENT AYUB KHAN AT TOMB OF BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR – FILLING MISSING CHAPTERS OF OUR WORTHY HISTORY
AN EROTIC ROOM OF PRINCE MASOOD GHAZNAVI AT LASHKARI BAZAAR – INSPIRATIONS CAME FROM LAHORE THE NEW CITY OF RICH CULTURE
UMRO BIN MUHAMMED SON OF QASIM AND LADI – A FORGOTTEN AND LOST GOVERNOR OF SIND
THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, BEING – PEACE PALACE HAGUE AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI SAID THE POET JOHN KEATS – THE MEN-KILLER BINDI GHAR GIRLS OF MOCHI DARWAZA
QURANS OF INDO-PAKISTANI REGION WERE IMPORTED FROM OTHER REGIONS – BUT WE DO FIND QURANS WRITTEN IN OUR AREA, LIKE LAHORE AND DELHI
SINGING SONGS WHEN A PERSON IS IN POWER – BASHING HIM WHEN GONE FROM THE SCENE
ONCE UPON A TIME ART EXHIBITIONS WERE HEADLINES – TODAY NO NEWSPAPER EVEN BOTHERS TO REPORT THEM
KARAVAN ANNUALS 1933 AND 1934 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS ART CRITICISM – IN URDU LANGUAGE BY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AS REAL BOLD INITIATIVE
ISMAT CHUGHTAI AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER – ISMAT ALWAYS ANNOYED WITH HER ACTUAL BROTHER MIRZA AZIM BAIG
IN PURSUIT OF THE MOTI DARWAZA OF LAHORE – THE GATES OF LAHORE CITY IN CHANGING TIMES
POINT, WITHDRAWAL, HAND GUARD OF JUNIOR CADET CORPS – BAYONET IN THEIR RIBS ONLY ANSWER FOR MIR JAFFERS
THE PAK ISTANI ARMY IS OUR BACKBONE STRENGTH FOR COMING TIMES – HISTORY RECORDS CIVILIZATIONS FELL WHEN ARMY WAS DISMANTLED
THE TWO FACES OF ROSA CERA TOP MODEL OF LONDON IN 1938 – AN ENCOUNTER IN LONDON IN 1938 WITH M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
IS THE EMPTY CENOTAPH AT KHUSRAU BAGH OF NUR JAHAN HERSELF? – EDWARD BACKHOUSE EASTWICK RECORDS SAME IN MURRAYS HANDBOOK 1882
AN INTELLIGENT NATION BEING BOMBARDED BY MORONIC THOUGHTS – THE PATHOS OF EVERY DAY PAKISTAN IN LIVING WITH STUPENDOUS HYPOCRISY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI! – 21ST SEPTEMBER 1897- 2016
J. WESLEY ADAMS, WIFE FRANCES AND DAUGHTER KATHY AT CHUGHTAI HOME – A REALLY CULTURED FAMILY OF AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL LAHORE
PRESENT CHANTING OF BULLEH SHAH ENDORSED BY FOREIGN LOBBIES – SINISTER DESIGNS TO PUT FOG AROUND REVIVAL OF ISLAM IN ACTUALITY
AND YOU THOUGHT OF ONE LADLI BEGUM BURIED IN LAHORE – THERE ARE INDEED MANY AND NUR JAHAN’S DAUGHTER WAS NEVER HERE
WHEN GIRLS FROM PESHAWER UNIVERSITY CAME CALLING – A REGULAR ANNUAL VISIT SPONSORED BY VICE CHANCELLOR
Outside Bombay in the Arabian sea lies a deserted Island Fort
FOREIGN LOBBIES WASTING THEIR RESOURCES IN TRYING TO BUY MUSLIM IDENTITY – MUSLIMS MAY WAVER HERE AND THERE BUT RENOUNCING IDENTITY IMPOSSIBLE
IN SEARCH OF MEHRI ARAB THE POETESS AT MUGHAL HOUSEHOLD – COMPANION OF EMPRESS NUR JAHAN WHO WAS HER GUARDIAN
THE VARIOUS VERSES KNOWN OF EMPRESS NUR JAHAN – AND THE DIWAN BRINGS NEW LIGHT ON HISTORICAL INCIDENTS
M.A. Rahman Chughtai made National presence felt in 1920
THE USE OF WORD INTELLIGENCE BY INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES – IS THE WORD INTELLIGENCE BEING PROPERLY USED OR MISNOMER
WHEN THE RAVI GOES ON RAMPAGE AGAIN AND AGAIN – FLOODS IN LAHORE DURING LAST FEW CENTURIES
THE SPIRITUAL GODDESS OF MUGHAL KINGDOM JAHAN ARA – DAUGHTER OF AN EMPEROR LIFE DEDICATED TO COMMONERS
PSYCHOS MUMBLING THINGS AGAINST PAKISTAN AND ITS IDEOLOGY – SATISFYING LOBBIES FOR THEIR REQUIREMENT OF THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
GROWING UP IN PAKISTAN WITH AMERICAN LEGENDS – FASCINATING WORLD OF COWBOYS, INDIANS AND DETECTIVES
AN ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IN PUNJAB IN 1689 AD ALAMGEER’S TIME – META BIN DERVAISH POET AND HISTORIAN WRITES HIS NATURAL VIEWS
AN AUTOGRAPH MASNAVI NUR JAHAN BARAI YADGAR JAHANGEER – A COLLECTION OF VERSES IN MEMORY OF EMPEROR JAHANGEER
THE ABDUCTION OF EMPEROR JAHANGEER BY NAMELY MOHABBAT KHAN AND HIS 20,000 HINDU HORSEMEN
AFTER ALIEN SIGHTINGS COME THE MEN IN BLACK, UNRESOLVED MYSTERY – CHUGHTAI MUSEUM VISITED BY STRANGE APPARITIONS DISGUISED AS ART LOVERS
A SCARCE MENTION OF THE PALACE OF NUR JAHAN IN LAHORE – MUHAMMED TAHER ASHIANA INAYAT KHAN DETAILED MENTION
WHEN ARTIST M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI LANDED IN BOMBAY – THE STORY OF BUTKADAH FILM PRODUCTIONS AND ASHOK KUMAR
A CARTOON FROM THE PAST REFLECTING ISLAMIC STATES – THE SITUATION STILL THE SAME FOR MUSLIMS OF WORLD
FIRST OFFICIAL SHOW OF PAINTINGS IN PAKISTAN, M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – INAUGURATION OF ALHAMRA ARTS COUNCIL KHAWAJA NAZIMUDDIN 1949
THE POETESS BAQANA THE CRYING MUGHAL LADY FROM LAHORE – THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN DIWAN OF EMPRESS NUR JAHAN
A PROFESSOR FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, I.J. PITT’S, IN 1942-44 – AMAZING REVELATIONS ABOUT THE HINDU MIND AND THINKING
AN UNKNOWN EUNUCH OF MASJID WAZEER KHAN LAHORE – THE ENIGMA OF FAMILY OF MULLAH YUSUF KASHMEERI
A UNIQUE EVENT IN HISTORY OF PAKISTAN OF A HOME VISIT IN 1959 – PRESIDENT AYUB KHAN VISITS THE STUDIO OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A GREAT ART EVENT IN PAKISTAN’S HISTORY 14TH AUGUST 1959 – INAUGURATION OF KARACHI ARTS COUNCIL WITH ART WORKS
THE ENIGMA OF MOHALLA CHAHAL BIBIAN LAHORE – SYED AHMAD TOKHTA AND HIS MAZAR IN LAHORE
IN MEMORY OF MIAN SALAH MIMAR CHUGHATA – DIED ON 11TH MAY 1858 CHABUK SAWARAN LAHORE
THE PATHOS OF SHAH ALAM AND HIS TIMES – A PUNJ SURA WRITTEN BY HIM BEFORE BLINDNESS
ARAB MUSLIM SCIENTISTS OBSERVED A LIVE SUPERNOVA 1000 YEARS AGO – THE RECORD OF THIS OBSERVATION EXISTS EVEN TODAY FOR THE WORLD
KING KANISHKA’S LAHORE IS NOT OUR LAHORE IN THE PUNJAB – IT IS IN THE FRONTIER NEAR HAZARA AND ITS REMAINS ARE STILL THERE
THE FIRST STUDENT AFTER THE DEATH OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – MS MARCELLA BEDFORD NESOM SIRHINDI AND 1978 HAPPENINGS
THE THIRD PUBLICATION OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – VARIOUS EDITIONS OF CHUGHTAI’S PAINTINGS
THE BIGOTRY OF ORDHENDRA COOMAR GANGOLY ART CRITIC – DEBUNKED M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI IN ALL WAYS AS THREAT
A MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE INTELLECTUALS IN IQBALS LIFETIME – INTER COLLEGIATE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND PERVAIZ SAHIB
Government College University
THE BEST BOOKS ON LAHORE ARE GETTING UNKNOWN – BEING REPLACED BY SHAM BOOKS ON ITS HISTORY
MAKING THE WORLD PARANOID THROUGH THE MEDIA – DESTROYING FUNDAMENTAL VALUES OF TRUST AND BELIEVES
THE PRESENCE OF SIR AKBAR HYDARI IN LAHORE – A CAR LIFT BY DR ALLAMA IQBAL TO CHUGHTAI BROTHERS
MEMORIES OF ANOTHER DAY IN QUTB COMPLEX DELHI – LEGACY OF SULTAN QUTB UD DIN AI-BEG LAHORI
SAMARENDRANATH GUPTA VERSUS M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – WHO WAS COPYING WHOM? HISTORY ENFOLDS ITSELF CLEARLY
THE SAMADH OF RANJIT SINGH IN LAHORE – ACTUAL EVIDENCE OF KHALSA DARBAR RECORDS
IF GENERAL ZIA UL HAQUE WAS AS BAD AS PROJECTED – WHAT WAS THE NEED TO ASSASSINATE HIM SO BRUTALLY
DR NAZAKAT JAHAN TAIMURI A FORGOTTEN HISTORIAN OF LAHORE – DR ABDULLAH CHAGHATAI AS GUIDE TO MANY STUDENTS IN LAHORE
THE ENIGMA OF MODERN ART IN PAKISTAN IN DERAILING CONCEPTIONS – PAKISTANIS SMITTEN WITH WESTERN OBSESSION OF ONE NIGHT STANDS
THE SKETCH BOOK OF OF PRINCESS VICTORIA – ROYAL HOUSEHOLD PENCHANT FOR PORTRAITURE
RONALD I. SPIERS AMERICAN AMBASSADOR INTEREST IN CHUGHTAI ART – EXTRAORDINARY VISIT OF AMERICAN DELEGATION TO CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR DEANE HINTON VISIT CHUGHTAI MUSEUM – DELEGATION ENTHRALLED BY CHUGHTAI ART AND WARM RECEPTION
JAHAN ARA KUNJAN OF MONGHEER RISING STAR OF INDIA – DANCING AND SINGING FROM CALCUTTA TO LAHORE
THE SIKH CONNECTION OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – BHAI VIR SINGH AND SARDAR PURAN SINGH’S NARGAS
MEDIA PROSTITUTES NOT EVEN WORTH A DIME – RAILING AGAINST THE IDEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN
A DURBAR AT LAHORE WITH ITS LANDMARK ANARKULLIE – JOHN LAWRENCE ADDRESSES THE AUDIENCE IN URDU LANGUAGE
LATOAN KAY BHOOT BATOAN SAY NAHI MANTAY IS ADEPT NOW – MORALITY AND LEGALITY CANNOT DEFEAT MONOLITHIC CORRUPTION
A FOURTH CENTURY GUPTA SEAL FROM LAHORE (QUESTION) – MAHARAJA MAHESVARANAGA SON OF NAGA BHATTA
MONGOLS PASSED THROUGH LAHORE – UNCHARTED HISTORY OF CHANGEZ, HALAKU AND OTHERS
THINKERS ARE OFTEN ISOLATED AND LEFT ALONE – SOCIETY CARES LEAST FOR THOSE WHO DO MOST
SKELETONS AND DEMONS WAS THE VERY FIRST IMAGERY – ON THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF SAADAT HASSAN MANTO
ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MIND OF TWENTIETH CENTURY – QUAID E AZAM M.A. JINNAH WAS NOT CONFUSED IN ANY WAY
THE MANTRA OF AKHUND BHARAT AND SAME CULTURE – NO OBJECTION TO WHAT HINDUS DO, IT IS THEIR RIGHT
PANIC OF SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC IN LAHORE 1850 – HENRY LAWRENCE ORDERS DRIVE AGAINST ITS SPREAD
DEATH OF ANOTHER ICON OF PAKISTAN – MS SHAMEEM ANWAR WITH THE IDEA OF PAKISTAN
THE REAL QUEST FOR CHUGHTAI MUSEUM OF LAHORE – A QUEST OF EIGHTY THREE YEARS OF ARTIST AND FAMILY
PANIC OF EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATION IN LAHORE 1904 – THE FAMOUS EARTHQUAKE OF QUETTA ALSO HIT LAHORE
A RAVAN FESTIVAL IN LAHORE 1923 – SUNDAY COURIER LAHORE REPORTS FESTIVAL
WALL PAINTING IN LAHORE AS TRADITION, YES – LAHORE BOASTED PICTURES AND SCULPTURE ON ROOFTOPS
EVEN BLEAK TIMES IN LAHORE 1796 AD, YET PAINTERS THERE – SHAHBAZ BILGRAMI LAHORI MAKING ON DEMAND PORTRAITS
DIFFERENT DYNASTIES DIFFERENT CROWNS AND HATS – TRADITIONS OF LAHORE ARE AN ENIGMA OF THEIR OWN
YURI BEZMENOV TALKED OF PAST IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST PAKISTAN – WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE DOING THE SAME THESE DAYS
MODESTY HAS BEEN PART OF OUR CULTURE IN ISLAMIC SOCIETY – OUR LADIES REQUIRED NO CHASTITY BELTS AS IN WESTERN WORLD
BADSHAHI MOSQUE WITH CUPOLAS ON MINARETS – A RAREST VIEW OF THE MOSQUE IN 1725 AD
FASCINATION OF MUSLI M ARTISTS WITH HINDU MYTHOLOGY – DID THE MOST TO RENDER PEACE AMONGST TWO NATIONS
PERCY BROWN, FYZEE RAHAMEEN AND OTHERS IN DELHI – WAS M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI PRESENT AT VICEROYS HOUSE?
AN ISOLATED LANDMARK OF SINHALESE ART – SIGRIYA WALL PAINTINGS IN CEYLON
KASHMEER AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY 1952 – SARDAR IBRAHEEM’S BOLD STATEMENT AT THAT TIME
FOUNDING FATHERS OF PAINTING IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN – CENTRAL ASIAN ARTISTS PART EXCELLENCE WITH BUDDHIST INSPIRATION
LEGAL REQUEST TO DECLARE TAJ MAHAL A MANDIR – A HINDU SEGMENT MAKING INDIA LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD
THE SACRED WRITINGS OF THE MUGHAL PRINCESSES – QURAN WRITTEN BY ZINAT UN NISA DAUGHTER AURANGZEB ALAMGEER
A SOUTH AFRICAN VISITS PAKISTAN IN 1948 – COMMENTS ON THE TWO NATION THEORY
THE INSPIRATION OF MUSLIM PAINTERS IN HISTORY – MANI THE GREATEST PAINTER OF ALL TIMES.
LAHORIS TRYING TO SAVE THE DOORWAY OF THE BAGH OF JAHAN ARA – WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING WHAT IT IS, A LITTLE RESEARCH REQUIRED.
WHY WAS HALAKU KHAN MADE TO SET FIRE – THE LIBRARY OF BAGHDAD, THE ARCHIVES OF ISLAM
THE SIKH PERSONALITY IS NO ONE THING – NOT GURU NANAK BUT GURU GOVIND SINGH
THE STINK OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM IS UNBEARABLE – INTELLECTUALS MADE PAKISTAN, MORONS INHERITED IT
THE TRUDEAUS OF CANADA WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS – THROUGH LIBERALISM AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
IF NARENDAR MODI EVER BECAME PRESIDENT OF USA – HE WOULD HAVE MOST AMERICANS KILLED FOR EATING BEEF
THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF HUMANKIND CAME WITH – QURANIC INJUNCTION OF “THINK AND PONDER”
ANOTHER INCIDENT FROM JAIPUR STATE RECORDS -SHAH JAHAN PUTS THE CROWN ON AURANGZEB’S HEAD
A LITERALLY FORGOTTEN JAIPUR STATE RECORDS – UNIQUE RECORDED EPISODES OF LIFE OF EMPEROR AURANGZEB
THE EXPERIENCES OF SHAUKAT THANVI IN LAHORE – THE HUMOURIST ARRIVES IN LAHORE 1943
A RAREST PERIOD OF PAINTING IN LAHORE – 18TH CENTURY WORKS ON WALLS AND PAPER
THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, BEING – PEACE PALACE HAGUE AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY IN GODS – OUR ALLAH IS ONE AND THE ONLY ONE
THE FRENZY OF UNCULTURED ILLITERATE MULLAH – 126 YEARS MUGHAL TYPE MOSQUE BEING RAZED TO GROUND
COMING NEXT YEAR AN ART FESTIVAL IN LAHORE – SEEKING GUIDANCE OF WESTERN AND INDIAN SCHOLARS
PARTITION STORIES AND THE NEW DECEIT PROGRAMME – BUT HERE IS A HAPPY STORY YOU WOULD NOT HAVE HEARD BEFORE
A WELL COMMENTED SHOW OF LAHORI GIRL AT OXFORD – RAZIA SIRAJUDDIN STEALS THE LIMELIGHT OF CRITICISM
THE MOST UNIQUE PICTURE GALLERY OF THE WORLD – LAHORE FORT’S EXCEPTIONAL HERITAGE
OUTSIDE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN U.N.O NEW YORK – THE CAFE HOUSES THREE WORKS OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
YOU HAVE SEEN MAPS SHOWING BREAKUP OF PAKISTAN – NOW OBSERVE A NEW CHINESE MAP OF FUTURE PAKISTAN
WAS QUAID E AZAM A FILM FAN – THE LEADER KNEW POTENTIALS OF FILM INDUSTRY
ON TOP OF HILL IN RAJA GIRAH SWAT – THE PROUD HERITAGE OF A GHAZNAVID AMIR
FORGET THE INDOCTRINATION OF OTHER DOCTRINES – THE KASHMEER DISPUTE BY LIAQUAT ALI KHAN 1950
RUTHLESS DISMANTLING OF MUGHAL MONUMENTS – THE SERAI OF NAWAB WAZEER KHAN UNDER BRITISH AXE
PESSIMISM SURROUNDING DR ALLAMA IQBAL IN – STOPPED TRUSTING PEOPLE AS RAMPANT BETRAYAL
A SCHOOL OF ART AT KAMRAN’S BARADARI IN LAHORE – WESTERN AND INDIAN SCHOLARS RELUCTANT TO CREDIT LAHORE
6TH SEPTEMBER, 1965 STRANDED IN DACCA – VIEWING THE WAR FROM EAST PAKISTAN
A NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR MUSLIM CHILDREN – DR ALLAMA IQBAL’S CONTRIBUTION IN 1913
CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH ENGENDERS SATANISM – ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR THROUGH MEDIA
A STRANGE ANECDOTE NEVER MENTIONED IN HISTORY BOOKS – CHAUDARY KHUDA BAKSH HONORARY MAGISTRATE AT LAHORE
NOT ONE PATRON OF ART IN PAKISTAN – HOW DOES ART AND ARTISTS STILL EXIST?
ARE COMMANDOS SAME ALL OVER – OR ARE OUR COMMANDOS DIFFERENT?
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI’S HOMAGE TO SIKH PHILOSOPHER – A LOST IMAGE OF BABA GURU NANAK
THE NINCOMPOOP CONSERVATORS ATTACHED TO NATIONAL MUSEUM KARACHI – NO KNOWLEDGE OF WINSOR AND NEWTON PERMANENT ARTIST COLOURS
A STORY OF GERMANY AND PAKISTAN – DR HEINRICH LUEBKE PRESIDENT OF GERMANY
PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY AND JACQUELINE KENNEDY – AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI NATIONAL ARTIST
THE INVASION OF MARASIS INTO MAIN STREAM MEDIA – PROFERSSIONAL YES BUT PANDERING TO BASIC INSTINCTS
WHO WAS THE FIRST TO CALL MUHAMMED ALI JINNAH – AS QUAID-E-AZAM. MIAN FEROZEUDDIN AHMAD, OF COURSE
PHYLLIS ELLIOT OAKLEY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE – RECALLING HER VISIT TO CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
A REMOTE ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION IN INDONESIA – ACEH WITH PECULARITIES ALL ITS OWN
A LITTLE REMEMBERED KASHMEERI UPRISING IN LAHORE – 13TH JULY 1931 LAHORIS KEEN TO LIBERATE KASHMEER
A STREET IN LAHORE NAMED AFTER RAHEEM BAKSH – FAMOUS ARCHITECT AND GRANDFATHER OF CHUGHTAI ARTIST
THE FLIGHT OF THE NAU-GUZZAS TO LAHORE – FOUNDERS OF LAHORE IN ALL WAYS
THE HERMIT ARTIST FROM EAST PAKISTAN – SULTAN THE BOHEMIAN PATRONIZED BY FATIMA JINNAH HERSELF
PAKISTANI PAINTERS IN 1952 – A STRANGE BOUQUET OF FLOWERS
THE ENTRAPMENT OF ZAID HAMID – A WELL PLANNED CONSPIRACY FROM WITHIN
A MUGHAL PRINCESS THAT STAYED WITH QUAID-E-AZAM – TILL THE VERY END AT ZAIRAT’S RESIDENCY
UNSCIENTIFIC AND UNDOC UMENTED STATEMENTS ABOUT LAHORE – PEOPLE SHOULD RESTRANT THEMSELVES FROM CREATING HULLABALLOO
EUROPEAN PETS AT WORK – PEOPLE WHO HABITUALY POUR VENOM OVER ISLAM
MEMORIES OF JAMES LANGLEY US AMBASSADOR – COMING ACROSS THINGS ALL THE TIME
AN ISLAMIC CLASSIFICATION OF CRAFTSMANSHIP – THE PHILOSOPHY OF HONOURING LABOUR FORCE
THE FIRST CHURCH IN LAHORE – MUGHALS COOPERATED WITH MISSIONARIES
BLOOD THAT EXCITES US – AND MAKES US CRY
THE QURANS OF EMPEROR AURANGZEB – MAXIMUM CALLIGRAPHED DURING HIS REIGN
THE POET BALDOON DHINGRA AND HIS ILLUSTRATIVE CHOICES – SHEIKH AHMAD, RAZIA SIRAJUDDIN AND AMRITA SHER-GIL
STALKING THE MUGHAL HAREM AS PEEPING TOM – THE SHAMELESSNESS OF THE BASTARD FRANOIS BERNIER
FIGURAL MOULDS FOR FRIEZES IN HAVELLIS – A FORGOTTEN MIMAR TRADITION OF LAHORE
THE HYPOCRISY OF ABUSING PAKISTAN BY PAKISTANIS – FINDING IDEALISM IN MERE OBEYANCE OF LAW IN OTHER COUNTRIES
THE ILLUSION OF WESTERN SCHOLARSHIP – NO ABILITIES TO JUDGE CHUGHTAI ART
A NEW CONCEPT OF RULE BY PEOPLE – YES, NO GOVERNMENT AT ALL
THE ZEAL OF MISSIONARY JOHN LIVINGSTON NEVIUS – ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT CHINA INTO CHRISTIANITY
ART REVOLUTION IN IRAN – BILLBOARDS IN TEHRAN HIGHLIGHT ART MASTERPIECES
ACTIVATED BALOCHISTAN GAMES ON AGAIN – INCIDENTS AND MEDIA TO CLOUD TRUTH
FROM CHINA WITH LOVE – POLITICIANS, JOURNALISTS AND PAINTERS
TRIBUTES TO QUAID E AZAM 1940 – ON HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY
THE SURVIVAL OF PAKISTAN IS NOT AT STAKE – CRISIS AFTER CRISIS HAS QUESTIONED OUR SANITY
WOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR SON TO INTERMINGLE – WITH A NAKED HOMOSEXUAL IN DELHI CROSSING ALL LEVELS OF DECENCY
AERATED WATER COMES TO LAHORE – NABI BAKSH DEHLAVI FACTORY 1851
THE BACKGROUND OF GENERAL POST OFFICE LAHORE – WHEN, WHO AND WHAT? UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
MAKING ZEROS HERO, HEROES LITERALLY ZERO – VESTED LOBBIES TRYING TO UNDO OUR UNITY
QUEEN MARY COLLEGE LAHORE 1926 – SHYAMA ZUTSHKI’S AUTOGRAPH TO A FRIEND
THE TREE OF CHUGHTAI FAMILY – MOVERS AND SHAKERS FROM MONGOLIA
BY 2015 PAKISTAN NO LONGER ON WORLD MAP – HA! HA! HA! ANYBODY LISTENING NOW
THE PORTRAITS OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – HARDLY ANY EXIST IN LIFE, ONE CAN WONDER WHY?
RESPECTING AND SAVING GODS OF OTHER RELIGIONS – A BURIED GANESH MADE IN LAHORE IN SULTANATE REIGN
EARTHQUAKE IN GHAZNI IN 1974 BROUGHT DEVASTATION – STORY ABOUT THE OPENING OF GRAVE OF SULTAN MAHMUD
WHEN “KANJRIS” STARTED CUTTING LABEL RECORDS – NEWER FAME, NEWER RESOURCES AND TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT
LACK OF KNOWLEDGE MADE MAN FEAR ECLIPSES – TODAY CHARLATANS MAKING FOOL OF PEOPLE
“MY HAIR GONE GREY, MY APPETITE NOT LOST YET” – AURANGZEB ALAMGEER
A TURK REBEL IN LAHORE – MUSLIM WOMEN ON THE MOVE
LAHORE A CITY OF GAME PLAYERS – DIFFERENT GAMES DIFFERENT TIMES
OBSESSION WITH END OF TIME – SECRET NOT SHARED BY ALLAH
LOSING KOHINOOR DIAMOND, SAVINGS ONES LIFE – THE ESCAPE OF SHAH SHUJA FROM LAHORE
A DAUGHTER REMEMBERS HER FATHER – HOLDS AMRITA’S MOTHER RESPONSIBLE FOR SLANDER
THE LIGHTENING OF BURAQ FOR PAKISTAN – CARRYING PAKISTANI IDEOLOGY FOR PROTECTION
NO ONE LIKE OUR MUHAMMED ALI JINNAH!
SLAVES, SERVANTS AND PANSIES OF FOREIGN LOBBIES – BOMBARDING THE MEDIA WITH ANTI-PAKISTANI SENTIMENTS
GROUPS ACCEPTED AMERICAN JASPER JOHNS – AS FATHER OF ART GIMMICKRY IN PAKISTAN
HINDUS HOMAGE TO PROPHET MUHAMMED (PBUH) – EVEN THIS KIND OF STUFF EXISTS IN ARCHIVES!
PANIC IN LAHORE AS SAUDI REGIME IN 1926 – STARTED DEMOLISHING ISLAMIC MAUSOLEUMS AND MOSQUES
ANIMALS DESTROYING CULTURAL LEGACIES – WHO IS ACTUALLY FUNDING THE RASCALS?
IN SEARCH OF SHAH RAUSHAN BRIDGE – ANOTHER MISSING MONUMENT OF LAHORE
THE FAMOUS RAMA TIRATH POET SWAMI OF LAHORE
THE FEMME FATALES OF LAHORE – ZUTSHKI SISTERS GLAMOROUS
BASHING GENERAL ZIA UL HAQUE ALL THE TIME – IN HIS OWN WAY HE DID MOST FOR CULTURE
FAIZ AHMAD FAIZ AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – POLES APART AND YET INTERACTIONS MANY
NO INVASION OF VIJAY NAGAR IN INDIA – ONLY MUSLIM CULTURE INFLUXED INTO HINDU EMPIRE
THE FARCE OF BALOCH INSURGENCY – FEUDAL SARDARS OR PEOPLE OF BALOCHISTAN
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI AND ANNIE BESANT – THE REBEL PROPHET
THE IMMORTAL HEADMASTER RALLIA RAM – MISSION SCHOOL LAHORE AND HIS CHARISMA
RANA CHANDRA SHAMSHEER JANG AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
MULLAHS ALWAYS OPPOSED THE TRICHOTOMY OF PAKISTAN
INDOCTRINATION CAMPAIGNS GOING ON ALL THE TIME – TO TAKE US AWAY FROM OUR PAKISTANI IDEOLOGY
EXOTIC ANIMALS IN ISLAMIC ART – NOTHING WAS BEYOND THEIR IMAGINATION
RAZIA SIRAJUDDIN – A WOMAN OF GREAT SUBSTANCE
TWO INDIAN GIRLS IN TOWN – FIRST INDIAN VISITORS TO CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
THE DIN OF DEMOCRACY – THE RHYTHM OF ARMY BOOTS
THE INFILITRATION OF CHUGHTAI ART – IN ORDINARY LIFE OF PAKISTAN
LIGHTENING CANDLES IS NOT ISLAMIC – BUDDHIST TRADITION CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
THE INCEPTION OF PAKISTAN TAUGHT HARD LESSONS – CURRICULUM OF EDUCATION DESIGNED WITH EXPERIENCE
PIONEER PAKISTANI ARTIST RAZIA FEROZE – EXPERIMENTATIONS EVERYWHERE
MARK SAGOFF’S HUMANISTIC PUBLIC POLICY – ISLAMIC LAWS OF HUMANITY – CAN CLASH OF CIVILIZATION BE AVERTED?
17TH OF JANUARY, A TOUCHSTONE OF STRUGGLE
THE ENIGMA OF A SULTANATE FIGURINE OF LAHORE
A FORGOTTEN HANIF RAMAY OF 1954 – AN ASPIRING ARTIST WHO BECAME A POLITICIAN
ISLAMIC WALL PAINTING – CONTINUATION OF TRADITIONS IN EGYPT
ART GIMMICKRY IN PAKISTAN – PANDERING TO ISLAMO-PHOBIA
ANALYZING MODERN PAKISTANI ART – IN PURELY OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTION
MASJID WAZEER KHAN – BUT THIS ONE IS IN MULTAN
THE RE-EMERGENCE OF RUSSIA
CENTRAL ASIAN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS AND ISLAMIC CONTINUATION OF WALL PAINTING
NAWAB AHMAD BAKSH KHAN WALI I LAHORE – AN UNKNOWN GOVERNOR OF LAHORE
CLEANING THINGS IN THE PAST – TRADITIONS IN INDIAN REGION
ART COUNCILS OF PAKISTAN – M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI’S EFFORTS FOR PAKISTAN
FASHION CONSCIOUS MUSLIM DANDIES – A DIFFERENT IMAGE FROM IMAGINED PLAIN FOLKS
RAZIA SIRAJUDDIN A WOMAN OF MANY DIMENSIONS – LOST IN THE HISTORY OF LAHORE
KANGRIS AND EMPEROR AURANGZEB ALAMGEER – A PLAN TO ERADICATE PROSTITUTION FROM OUR REGION
CONSPIRACIES AGAINST PAKISTAN – THE BASIC ONES
A ROYAL MEETING AT GOVERNOR HOUSE LAHORE
THE SUICIDE RAJA OF LAHORE – FRUSTRATION MADE JAIPAL TAKE HIS OWN LIFE
THE AESTHETIC IMPULSE – THE CHILD M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
WEST PAKISTAN WAS PERFECT AS ONE UNIT – NO NEED TO DEFANG THE SPIRIT OF PROVINCES
WAZEER UN NISA BEGUM (AMA DODEE), – THE FIRST WIFE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
SCRIPTING PAKISTAN’S DESTRUCTION BY 2015 – THE RESILIENCE OF THE PAKISTANI PSYCHE IS BEYOND LOGIC
LAST WORKING YEARS 1972-1974 M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – WORK BUT WORK FOR WHOM?
TWO AMERICANS IN TOWN – DIRECTING FLOW OF ART EDUCATION
THE STRUGGLE OF USTAD ALLAH BAKSH – PUBLIC APATHY LINGERS ON IN SOCIETY
GUY DAVENPORT CALLED ME “GURU OF LAHORE” – LOVE OF AMERICANS FOR ME STUPENDOUS
HISTORY OF MOHALLA CHABUK SAWARAN – ANCESTRAL HOUSE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A TIME FOR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO PASS CONTEMPT OF ARMY ACT
DEVI PRASAD ROY CHOUDHURY A GREAT HINDU ARTIST – ECHOES OF CHUGHTAI ART IN HIS WORKS
RANA CHANDRA SHAMSHEER JANG – PRIME MINISTER OF NEPAL AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
A 19TH CENTURY POET OF LAHORE – FIDAI BAIG (MUKUND LALL) KNOWN AS FIDWI LAHORI
HAFEEZ JULLUNDRI AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
WHEN THE WHITE BURQA BECAME BLACK – THE STORY OF BURQA IN LAHORE
HISTORY OF DESTROYING MUSEUMS IN PAKISTAN
LEONARDO DA VINCI AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
JAGANATH TEMPLE ORISSA AND ITS ENVIRONS – AN AMAZING DIFFERENT VERSION OF RAMAYANA
WHEN THE SKY REIGNED TEARS OF BLOOD – SUGHRA RABBABI STABBED TO DEATH IN HER STUDIO
OUR HYDERABADI BRETHREN IN DECCAN INDIA
ANARKALLI, PURANI ANARKALLI, ANARKALLI BAZAAR – THE BLASPHEMY OF WILLIAM FINCH BASTARD
IS ISRAELI BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA RETALIATION
GUL SAFA LAHORI BELOVED
THE FASCINATION OF LAHORE WITH LEGENDS – HEER RANJHA SWAYEDTHE CITY ALL THE TIME
THE FIRST PAINTING OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
MORONS, CLOWNS AND GREED – THE FLAVOUR OF RAMAZAN PROGRAMMES
WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE OF PLANET EARTH?
THE LEGEND OF KHALIFA KABAB WALA – A KABAB SHOP IN ANCIENT LAHORE
CHANGE IS LAW OF ALLAH – SYSTEMS CHANGE TO FIT CHANGING TIMES
BLINDNESS OF WESTERN SCHOLARS – OBVIOUS FAKES ACCEPTED AS GENUINE WORKS
WESTERN SCHOLARSHIP ON THE DECLINE – NO UNDERSTANDING OF REGIONAL ART POLITICS
THE MELODY OF “AZAN” MORE THAN BEETHOVENS SYMPHONY
DIARY OF A HINDU PRINCE OF DEV GEER (DAULATABAD) 694 AH (1294 AD)
A LITTLE KNOWN CENSUS OF LAHORE 1850 AD – AMAZING FIGURES OF THAT TIME
WEST OWES MANY THINGS TO ISLAM – THE STORY OF RAPUNZEL IS ONE OF THEM
MORE ON USTAD BEHZAD LAHORI – DARAB NAMAH MANUSCRIPT
M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI AND SAADAT HASSAN MANTO – POLES APART IN THOUGHT AND YET TOGETHER
MOHALLA OF SHEIKH BASAWAN – AREA OF LAHORI PAINTERS
NOT ONLY ONE USTAD BEHZAD – WEST NOT FAMILIAR WITH BEHZAD LAHORI
100 COUNTRIES 17616 PAGE VIEWS – PLANET EARTH AND PAKISTAN
THE FLYING WOODEN FLY OF LAHORE
WHO BROUGHT ARCHITECTS AND ARTISTS TO KANGRA FIRST?
KANGRA AND THE MYTH OF SCHOOLS OF ART OF PAINTING
SOLDIERS AND POLITICIANS – TRUTH AND LIES
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY – LACK OF DEPICTION OF MALE GENITALS IN ART
THE EGERTON CONNECTION – CONSTRUCTION WORK IN LAHORE
MIR JAFFERS OF ART – INDIAN INFILTRATION OF ART IN PAKISTAN
THE FIRST PAKISTANI PAINTER IN USA – M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI 1929 AND 1930
CONSPIRACY AGAINST IDEOLOGY BUILDERS – CONDOLENCES ISSUE OF M A RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
NO LONGER ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE – ENGLISH POODLES IN LOVE WITH PRESIDENTS
SIR HENRY LAWRENCE AND POSSESSION OF LAHORE – CRITICAL CHANGES AND MULTIPLE MURDERS
POLISHING MIRRORS IN LAND OF BLIND PEOPLE – M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI’S ASSERTIONS ABOUT ART
DEV SAMAJ MOVEMENT IN LAHORE – A SEX SCANDAL ROCKS THE SERENITY OF LAHORE
EPISODES IN LIFE OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM – GOVERNMENTAL APATHY AND ANIMOSITY
DEMONIZING PAKISTAN – GOVERNMENTAL SHIT ON HONEST PEOPLE
INFLUENCE OF ISLAMIC AESTHETICS – ON WESTERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
ONE COMMON SENSE IS KNOWN TO ALL – PAKISTAN ARMY IS CUSTODIAN OF IDEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
WOODEN HOUSES OF LAHORE – A LOST TRADITION
AMANAT KHAN SHIRAZI – CALLIGRAPHER OF TAJ MAHAL
THE DILEMMA OF LAHORE CITY – SEARCHING FOR LAHORIS IN LAHORE
ON HER MAJESTYS ASSASSINATION SERVICE – ANNEXATION OF PUNJAB 1849
CHARADE OF TEXTBOOKS REVISION – NO HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE CAN BE OBJECTIVE
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES AND LIVE TELECASTS – HOMO CRANIUMLESS DISCOVERED IN PAKISTAN
HEAVEN AND HELL – TWO FACES OF KASHMEER
SHER ALI AFRIDI 11TH MARCH 1872 – THE HANGING AND AFTERWARDS
HOW DID DARA SHIKOH ACTUALLY DIE? – A STATE COMMISSION DELIVERED VERDICT
LORD MAYO, MAYO SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SHER ALI – THE STRANGEST INCIDENT OF AN ISLAMIC FANATIC
LOVE PAKISTAN OR LEAVE PAKISTAN! – MANTRA AGAINST PAKISTAN FOREIGN GENERATED AGENDA
NO SWORD NO SUFI CHANT, REVOLUTION OF PERCEPTION
KHUSHWANT SINGH AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
HINDU MUSLIM AMITY – OLD PICTURE GIVE CLUES
CHILDREN OF DARA SHIKOH – JAHANZEB BANU BEGUM
ART FOR HARMONIOUS CO-EXISTENCE BETWEEN NATIONS
CONVERSIONS OF MUHAMMEDANS – SIX FAMOUS EXAMPLES ALL OVER INDIA
THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW!
CHILDREN OF DARA SHIKOH – SIPHIR SHIKOH
URDU AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – TRANSLATING ART STUDIES INTO URDU LANGUAGE
PROMOTION OF URDU – M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI STYLE
IMTIAZ ALI TAJ AND M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – TWO FRIENDS TILL THE VERY END
THE MAGIC OF HARIDAS LAHORI!
THE LAST MUSLIM; YES THE FIRST MUSLIM – ISLAM CAN NEVER DIE
DRAMA AND THEATER – FIRST CREATIVE IMPULSE OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI
INAM SHAH THE POSSIBLE FIRST CONVERT OF LAHORE – THOMAS VELPY FRENCH DEDICATION TO CHRISTIANITY
NOT THE WAY TO DIE AS MUSLIMS – NOT THE WAY TO KILL AS MUSLIMS
SEX PARTY OVER EMPEROR JAHANGEER’S REMAINS (1828) – COMMANDER M. AMISE AND RANJIT SINGH
MARTIAL LAW IN LAHORE AND PUNJAB – YES BRITISH MARTIAL LAW OF 1919
DESTABILIZING SOCIETY – THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN TIMES ANNUAL 1948 15TH AUGUST – QUAID’S FOREWORD AND CHUGHTAI ART
WESTERN HEARTS ACHING TO PROVE QURAN FAKE
HINDU BRITISH RIOT IN LAHORE – HENRY LAWRENCE IN ACTION 1846
LAST DAYS OF QUAID-E-AZAM – HALWA PURI, ANTIBIOTICS AND COLONEL ELAHI BAKSH
A RUTHLESS WAR OF INDIA PAKISTAN 1965 – A MEANINGLESS TASHKENT DECLARATION
THE INVASION OF LAHORE 1965 – THE INVASION OF LAHORE 2014?
A GHAZNAVID EVIL EYE IN LAHORE – PROTECTING COINS OF SULTAN IBRAHEEM GHAZNAVI
WHY RUSSIA FELL? HOW RUSSIA SPRUNG AGAIN?
WICKED GAMES ‘BASTARDS’ PLAY – CANNOT UNDO THE SPIRIT OF PAKISTAN
ASSASSINATION OF NAWAB BHIKARI KHAN – FLOGGED TO DEATH BY SLIPPERS OF HAREM’S LADIES
PRINCE KAMRAN LAHORI – THE FIRST SEEDS OF REBELLION
HISTORY OF PROGRESS OF MUSIC UNDER ISLAM…
WESTERN MUSIC ROCKS EMPEROR BAHADUR SHAH’S TENT!
CHRISTIANITY COMES TO LAHORE – MISSIONARY ZEALS TURN ZERO
PATHAN GANGS IN LAHORE IN 1907 – STEALING GUNS IN BROAD DAY LIGHT
OUT OF JOBS READY TO SELL SOULS – THE NEW MISCREANTS OF PAKISTAN
THE MYTH OF HIRA MANDI – NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
A BROKEN WALL AND EQUILIBRIUM – VELOCITY OF CIRCULATION AND BALANCE
DR RABINDARNATH TAGORE AND ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI – ART AND ARTISTS UNITING TWO NATIONS
THE MURDER OF AMRITA SHER-GIL IN LAHORE – A JEALOUS HUSBAND POISONS A NYMPHOMANIAC
I WILL SURVIVE – TILL THE LAST BREATH, STRUGGLE ON
BLOW TO THE ADVANCMENT OF ISLAM – ASSASSINATION OF HAZRAT UMAR
MAUSOLEUMS FOR KINGS AND QUEENS – THE MAUSOLEUM OF EMPEROR JAHANGEER
BADAWAHS (GOBLINS) OF LAHORE – WHAT EXACTLY WERE THESE FORCES?
CREMATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN – RESENTMENT OF SHAH JAHAN 1634
A MUGHAL EMPEROR IN PHOTOGRAPHS – LOOKS REAL NOT MYTHICAL
COERCION AND PAYMENTS – BIG JALSAS AND BIG DHARNAS
Broad daylight murder in Lahore
MANDIR OF LOH – A BRITISH CONSPIRACY?
BUCK UP SHABBIR – CAPTAIN MUNSTER HOUSE
MANY YEARS WITHOUT RAIN – VARIOUS FAMINES IN LAHORE
THE WATCH-LIONS OF LAHORE – NO NEED FOR DOGS
NO NEED FOR PRIVATIZATION IN PAKISTAN – PRIVATIZE THE GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
STRENGTH OF OUR COUNTRY – THE PAKISTAN ARMY
READER’S FEEDBACK – CENSORING VALID OPINION
EMBARRASSING TO IMAGINE – FAILING THE WILL OF ALLAH
A TURK GIRL IN LAHORE – ONE WHO RODE LIONS
COW RIOTS IN LAHORE 1845 – BUTCHERING THE BUTCHERS OF LAHORE
SULTAN MAHMUD AND AYAZ ABU-NAJM – THE CALUMNY OF IRANIAN SOURCES
BAHADUR SHAH OF MOCHI GATE – THE FIRST ANTIQUE DEALER OF LAHORE
ACCELERATING TRENDS – THE ATTACK ON PAKISTANI IDEOLOGY
IS MOVING FROM PAN ISLAMISM OF DR ALLAMA IQBAL EVEN POSSIBLE?
IS ‘BEYOND QUAID’ POSSIBLE? NOTHING BEYOND QURAN EXCEPT IJJTEHAD
A FORBIDDEN NOVEL IN LAHORE – LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
A DEAD ROBIN AND A HUNGRY DOG – RESPONSIBILITY OF POSITION
REFUSING AN OPPORTUNITY – THE BODY OF EMPEROR JAHANGEER
THE WAY OF THE SUFIS – MADHO LALL HUSSAIN (1538-1599)
OUR REVERENCE FOR JESUS CHRIST – ONE OF THE PROPHETS OF MUSLIMS
KHIZR KHAN AND DEVAL DEVI – A LOVE LOST FROM DAY ONE
SUCCESSFUL JOURNALISTS ARE TALKING PARROTS – “INEVITABILITY OF BREAK UP OF PAKISTAN”
A TOY SELLER IN BHAATI GATE – HEROISM AT ITS BEST
LAST OF THE GREAT NAQASHS – HUJRA OF WAZEER KHAN MOSQUE
ARE CROWS REALLY INTELLIGENT? EXPERIMENTATION WITH REAL CROWS
SEVEN THOROUGH BRED HORSES – ANCESTORS OF ALL ARAB HORSES IN PAKISTAN
THREE CONSPIRATORS – PATHETIC ENDS
AKBAR’S RELIGIOUS EXPERIMENTATIONS
ROUND THE WORLD – CULTURES DIFFER, NEEDS SAME
HUJRA OF MIR MAHDI – OLDEST EXTANT MONUMENT IN LAHORE
THEFT OF GATES OF SULTAN MAHMUD’S MAUSOLEUM
REDUCING STRESS OF LIFE – STOP WATCHING MEANINGLESS MEDIA
GOVERNMENTAL FOLLIES – BENAZIR BHUTTOS PLAN TO DEMOLISH LAHORE
ISMAELIS IN PUNJAB – VIOLENT CONFRONTATIONS
A SULTANATE LAMP OF LAHORE – FILLING GAPS OF RESEARCH
GOVERNMENT CAN DELIVER NOTHING ——– “LICK MY BOOTS” ONLY
PASSIONS OF A NATION – REFLECTION OF LOVE SONGS
COCK FIGHTING IN LAHORE – NOT SO NICE WAY OF DOING THINGS
SACRED ARE RELIGIOUS PLACES – NO ONE HAS RIGHT TO DESTROY THEM!
THE DRAMA OF SIKHS – DESTRUCTION OF MOSQUE OF ABDULLAH KHAN
A CHURCH BUILT BY MUSLIMS IN SICILY FOR THEIR CHRISTIAN BRETHREN
ISLAMIC SPAIN AND DR ASAD SADIQ
DIFFERENT PLACES DIFFERENT CLASSES HERE – DIFFERENT PLACES IN NEXT DIMENSION TOO
IS MY COUNTRY WORTH SAVING? AM I INDEBTED TO MY MOTHER!
LANDA BAZAAR AND SULTAN’S SERAI
CUSTER’S LAST STAND FROM WARRIORS INTO WIMPS
WORKING FOR WORLD PEACE – SOME AMERICANS DREAM
WHY YOU STRIKE ME LUNA? OBSESSION WITH MOON ROCKS!
A BRITISH REPORT ON ATTOCK TUNNEL – WHO GAVE THEM THE IDEA?
UNDERGROUND TUNNELS OF LAHORE – NOT MYTHICAL BUT A REALITY!
SHIP BUILDING IN LAHORE – EMPEROR AKBAR AT HIS BEST
WHEN JOSEPH S FARLAND CAME CALLING AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT CHUGHTAI HOME
THE ATTACK ON LAHORE (1043-1049) – MARTYRDOM AT ITS BEST
PROTECTING LAHORE – THE ROLE OF THE KOTWAL
BOUNTIES OF ALLAH! – HAMMERING GOLD INTO JEWELRY
FEEDING THE PUBLIC WITH TALES – THE STRATEGY OF NOTHINGNESS
SULTANS AND SAINTS – THE DICHOTOMY OF RULE
‘SOB’ SON OF BITCH AND OTHER ABUSES
2000 VIEWS 25 COUNTRIES – THANK YOU BLOG READERS!
THE MUSIC WHICH ROCKED LAHORE FOR YEARS!
PLANET OF THE APES – LESSONS OF LIFE
CASTRATION OF PAKISTAN – WESTERN IDEAS OF PEACE
KABULI MAL AND NEPHEW AMIR SINGH
LORDS AND COMMONERS – NOMENCLATURES OF PAST
THOUSAND YEARS OF LAHORE 1014-2013 – THREE YEARS UNDER HINDU RULE
QURAN AND THE SWORD – LIVING SYMBOLISM OF SHARF-UN-NISA
LAHORI BOYS – SEDUCERS OF FOREIGN WOMEN!
WHEN NO ONE LEFT ALIVE IN LAHORE – THE INVASION OF AMIR TIMUR
CREATING A FACE FROM BONES – THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AMIR TIMUR
A SERIAL KILLER LOOSE IN LAHORE!
THE FARRIERS OF LAHORE!
WHEN QUEEN ELIZABETH BOUGHT A CHUGHTAI PAINTING!
THE ANTI-PAKISTAN MANTRA!
THE REALITY OF LECTURE TOURS – IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL INTERACTION
WHO FOUNDED ALHAMRA LAHORE? OBVIOUSLY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI!
ALHAMRA THE FIRST ART CENTRE
BENJAMIN H OEHLERT – US AMBASSADOR AND ART COLLECTOR
MEAGER ILLUSIONS, TUM APNI KOM KA NAI!
WHERE IS ALI HUJWERI BURIED? A SEARCH FOR DATA DARBAR
“CHAMOORNA” THE CUT KITES!
PATANGS FROM MALAYSIA!
BASANT IN LAHORE, A RAW DEAL
NEFZAWI VERSUS VATSYANA
BARFI VERSUS DHOTI! – AN INTERESTING TALE OF 1965 WAR
ART GIMMICKRY IN PAKISTAN – NEW HEIGHTS IN POLITICAL ISLAMO-BASHING
“MASJID BHAGWAN DASS” – A HINDU JAMIA MASJID FOR THE MUSLIMS!
A BIZARRE TALE OF DATA DARBAR
CO-EXISTING WITH AHMADIYAHS – IS IT POSSIBLE?
CONVERSIONS OF ONCES WAY OF LIFE , RELIGIOUS CHANGES IN LAHORE
THE SHIT CLEANERS OF LAHORE , CHANGING TIMES OF HYGIENE
THE ‘WAAR’ IN FILMS – NATIONAL SENTIMENTS AND MISGUIDANCE
DIWAN-BARID OF LAHORE – MY NAME IS BOND, JAMES BOND!
SARCOPHAGUS IN NAWAB ASIF KHANS MAUSOLEUM
SULTAN AND HIS SON
THE BONES OF EMPRESS NUR JAHAN, AND A SICK MIND OF A SIKH RULER
SEXUAL ANTICS ON A MOSQUE’S MINARET FONDLING OF RANJIT SINGH AND MAI MORAN
RESPECTING OTHER WAYS OF LIFE, DOES NOT MEAN LETTING OTHERS, TWIST AND TURN YOUR OWN.
CHANGING NAMES AND INFERIORITY COMPLEX!
THE GENEROSITY OF A LAHORI!
THE ISLAMIC HINDUS OF LAHORE!!!
QASIM AND LADI – A ROMANCE OF SIND
ARMS AND AMMUNITION OF LAHORE – A forgotten story
EMPOWERMENT OF ANARCHY
CALIPH OF ISLAM IN DELHI – Part 2
A CALIPH OF ISLAM IN DELHI – Part1
2012 END OF THE WORLD 2015 END OF PAKISTAN HA! HA! HA!
AMERICA, KUFI STONES AND ISHRAT HUSSAIN ZUBERI
THE BOREDOM OF GOD CREATED HUMANITY
MORAL DRAIN LEADS TO BRAIN DRAIN
CROSSING A ROAD IN STRAIGHT LINE MAKING CHOICES IN LIFE!
A GOLD DINAR ON THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD
AMERICAN SHUTDOWN AND FAILING DEMOCRACIES
THE SPHINX OF LAHORE
SCULPTURE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
BELITTLING DR ALLAMA IQBAL
MANIPULATING QUAID-E-AZAM ALL THE TIME!
Democracy, Quranocracy and Military interventions… what went wrong?
PROTESTING NATIONS
TWO NATION THEORY
Sitting Over Idle Money is Waging War Against ALLAH:
Rising falling civilizations and Quranic values: Emerging homosexuality in Pakistan
Anguish of Muhammed Salih Kambo
The Peshawar Tragedy
Unconditional Love for Pakistan
Chughtai Museum and Pakistan
About Chughtai Museum site
All about Art & Pakistan!
Arif Sahab,
I am interesting in buying books by your dear father. Please contact me. Thanks.
P. Alvi
How?
Sir i need a book “Mosques of Lahore” by Dr Abdullah Chugtai.
Not easily available but one can try.
Dear Chughtai sahib,
Salam
I read your articles about Bulleh shah, army, history. Glad to see ghairat and specially the clarity of self and surroundings. May ALLAH (swt) give you more Baraka.
Thank you very much. We are becoming rarer every day in our own country.
this is really awesome paintings , i want to know some painting prices ,