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He who hasn’t seen Lahore is not really born.
Amazing first full day in Lahore. Visiting the final resting place of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a huge treat. Not many will agree with my...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 18, 20231 min read
Mum’s birthplace.
I'd long promised her that if I ever made it to Pakistan, one of my most stops would be at her b
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 18, 20231 min read
A right royal pain in the butt: the grave of Princess Bamba in Lahore.
One of the first things I did as soon as I arrived in Lahore, after being treated to a simple but delicious lunch of chick pea curry...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 15, 20231 min read
The fabled river Chenab the way to ancestral village Koankh
Today during my visit to Pakistan we are on the the way to the village of Koankh where all my paternal ancestors were born including my...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 14, 20231 min read
Welcome to Pakistan
There I was trying to record my first Vlog after crossing the border, and what happens? I suddenly see on my screen a tall man standing...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Ode to Bhageera
Like a meteor he appeared suddenly and brightened and transformed our lives. Today, a year later, just as suddenly, he disappeared. I am...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 9, 20233 min read
The Beginning
I've long wanted to travel to Pakistan, land of my ancestors which they fled as refugees in 1947. Delighted to announce I've got a visa...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 7, 20232 min read
On cultural appropriation
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/28/writers-in-culture-war-over-rules-of-the-imagination?fbclid=IwAR33iPa2kazAqeKE1FtlzPC2uOOBI...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Lohri
Lohri is the north Indian (Punjab in particular) festival marking the passing of the winter solstice. People look forward to the end of...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 7, 20233 min read
Partition in art
Just arrived. Partition: a painting, based on a famous photograph by Margaret Bourke White. The artist is Leeds based, Suman Kaur. It...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Ithaca and longing
The Iliad, Odyssey and Black Jacobins are the first three books I recall reading when I first came to Blighty as a dumb, callow “freshie”...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 7, 20233 min read
Asian Soldiers - 1st World War
Quite a good piece in the Evening standard about, among others, two generations of my family who fought over two world wars to defend...
Rajwinder Pal
Feb 7, 20231 min read
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