Stories by Salman Tahir

When demolition crews recently cleared the area around Lahore’s Bhati Gate, one small domed shrine survived — not because anyone

After years of silence, Basant returns, and Lahore’s kites wait — patient, hopeful, and ready to lift the city’s spirit once more.

Saving what remains is still possible, but the clock is brutal.

For a thousand years, Punjab kept its history in song, not script. Now, fewer than a dozen people can still perform the epic tales that once filled every village square.

Before Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man, there was Mumtaz Shahnawaz’s The Heart Divided — Pakistan’s first English-language Partition