The Parsi burial ground is a sign of Pindi’s rich heritage on May 8, 2019It is a sweltering morning of June 1947. Weeks after vicious communal riots in Rawalpindi, Parsis are proffering teary-eyed goodbye to their home, Rawalpindi – standing amid Parsi cemetery on the narrow patches that part each grave, by laying out rose petals with tears rolling down from their faces and saying holy prayers to those […]
Notes From A Sacred Land — an insightful journey into Pakistan on November 7, 2017In Paul Bowles’s magnum opus, “The Sheltering Sky”, a post war novel deals with existential issues. The novel chronicles Port Moresby and Kit, a couple’s journey into the North African desert. Bowles writes of his male protagonist Moresby: “He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler”. A tourist came back to this place after a few days, weeks […]