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And once one starts Lahore di sair, one realises that the woman who penned this song was no fool. The girl pleads to her love that he should take her around Lahore city and she will ask for nothing more. Sadly, it has been closed down.Ī popular Punjabi song celebrates the city thus: Mainu Lahore di sair kara de ve, Main na tere ton kujh hore mangadi. Go a little further and one sees the board of the Tea House that was a favourite haunt of Manto and other progressive writers. The building still boasts of a faded little signboard that says Saadat Hasan Manto Yahan rehate thhe.
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There in the middle of the passing traffic in the heart of the city stands the Lakshmi Mansion where the great storyteller of Urdu, Saadat Hasan Manto, used to stay. The Lahoris will proudly say, "Fashion starts from Lahore and then reaches Karachi." For someone like me who had read and heard so much about this city, a visit to Lahore has to it a sense of deja vu. That glamour lingers even in the rather conservative Islamic Pakistan. Way back in the days of the Raj, it used to be called the Paris of Asia. Can one think of Bengal without Kolkata? The same goes for Punjab and Lahore.įounded probably between the first and seventh century of the Christian era, Lahore saw the Hindu rule in the beginning, the Mughals, the Sikhs and the British. East Punjab was indeed poorer without Lahore. The new-grown city of Chandigarh could not quite fill the gap. With the division of Punjab in 1947, East Punjab lost its capital. Set against the backdrop of the Partition riots, this play was made famous in a production by famed theatre director, Habib Tanvir. This was the phrase used by Asghar Wajahat for his play Jis Lahore Nahi Wekheya O' Janmeya Nahi. Lahore di sair can last a lifetime as there is much to see, says Nirupama DuttĪS the old Punjabi adage goes, the one who has not seen Lahore is yet to be born.