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A tale of two cities [source] Dawn (2009)
A tale of two cities By Moazzam Husain Sunday, 14 Jun, 2009 | 08:32 AM PST AS two lovely looking girls riding bicycles overtook us, I saw one o... [more]
Poetic melodies from the past [source] The Tribune (2008)
Poetic melodies from the past Humra Quraishi ... [more]
PM launches Tribune’s 125-yr anthology [source] The Tribune (2008)
A New Milestone PM launches Tribune’s 125-yr anthology Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service ... [more]
Romancing the city of Lahore [source] The Friday Times (2008)
Romancing the city of Lahore April 5, 2008 · Khalid Hasan writing for the Friday Times I first came upon Pran Nevile when Saeed Ahmed Khan, a gentleman from Lahore, whom I unfortunately never met... [more]
Let Lahorites vist Lahore without visa, says a new book [source] Outlook India (2007)
Amidst all the talk about visa on arrival to Pakistan, a new book suggests the government should allow all those aged sixty five and above to travel across the border without visas.For many Indian Pun... [more]
Delhi and Lahore twins? [source] Academy Of Punjab In Borth America (2007)
I spent a week recently in the Indian capital, Delhi, in connection with the very last interviews for my book on the partition of the Punjab in 1947. Coming to Delhi has always been like coming ba... [more]
Lahore Lost and Found [source] Kolkata Newsline, Indian Express (2007)
Pran Nevile barely looks his age as he briskly strides out of the India International Centre library in Delhi, clutching a handful of paperbacks. “This is the one,” the octogenarian points to the ... [more]
Sahibs and nautch girls [source] The Tribune (2007)
Sahibs and nautch girls Pran Nevile is versatile. Having finished with diplomatic assignments and globe-trotting he’s got down to putting his reminiscences on paper. His first love is ... [more]
Paintings bring Moghul Delhi alive [source] The Hindu (2007)
The Turkish Sultana of Akbar’s reign is still remembered because of the palace named after her in Fatehpur Sikri. She must have been very pretty – a half oriental and a half European beauty. An ar... [more]
Lahore revisited [source] The Hindu (2007)
As the revised edition of Pran Nevile's "Lahore - A Sentimental Journey" (Penguin) is formally released this Friday by Shahid Malik, Pakistan's High Commissioner, there are a few aspects worth not... [more]
A journey into 1940s Lahore [source] The Daily Times (2007)
A journey into 1940s Lahore Staff ReportLAHORE: Pran Neville, an Indian author, recalled his memories of the time spent at the Government College University (GCU) and said it was an unforgettable p... [more]
Bringing back the magic of K.L. Saigal [source] Music India Online (2007)
Fifty-eight years after his death, the legendary actor-singer lived again Tuesday evening as three singers paid tribute to him on his death anniversary at a special function in New Delhi's India Inter... [more]
Pilgrimage to the past [source] The Hindu (2006)
FOR a Lahoria — whether an Indian or a Pakistani — the essential identity is hailing from Lahore. What is it about the city — "feted as the Paris of the East" — that sets it apart from oth... [more]
His golden voice [source] The Tribune (2005)
Almost at the very beginning of this feelingly written account of the life and work of K.L. Saigal, Pran Nevile reproduces a page of advertisement from The Tribune, dated April... [more]
Saigal, one in a million [source] Friday Times (2005)
The year 2004 was the hundredth anniversary of KL Saigal’s birth, but it went unmarked in Pakistan. Some time earlier I had asked music aficionado Saeed Malik in Lahore if he could perhaps get a gro... [more]
How carnal desire put England on top [source] Tribune India (2004)
WHEN this book came into my hands, my eyes fell on its black and white pictorial cover showing two sprightly and curious looking women, one blazing with jewellery, and the other half-c... [more]
Memories of pre-1947 Lahore [source] KhalidHasan.net (2003)
“Everything about Lahore was special. If you wanted to see the best-dressed young men in India, they were to be found in Lahore. The best food in India was to be found in Lahore. It was a city of go... [more]
Colonial rule -his forte [source] Tribune News Service (2002)
His knowledge of the cultural and social history of India under colonial rule is encyclopaedic. He lives in the pre-camera age and his books speak volumes for his in depth research into several areas ... [more]
On a journey to discover art of the past [source] The Times Of India (2002)
For the author of Lahore - A Sentimental Journey that has gone into six editions now, the nostalgia and romance with the past never ends. His mind finds solace only when it is busy seeking an aspec... [more]
Pardey ke peeche kya hai: Women of the past [source] The Times Of India (2002)
chandigarh: a former diplomat and advisor to the un, pran nevile, is a punjabi who migrated from lahore to this part of the country during the partition and wrote a bestseller, lahore: a sentimenta... [more]
Notes of Nostalgia [source] The Indian Express (2002)
Pran Nevile, a former diplomat and founder of K.L. Saigal Memorial Society, continues to enthrall the old and young with musical tales of the pastAkhtari Bai Faizabadi, Dulari Bai, Kamla Jharia. As he... [more]
Unveiling Indian women [source] The Tribune (2000)
IT took European artists to open the world’s eyes to the beauty of Indian women. Some were able to capture them in their sketch books or on canvas: by riversides while ... [more]
Bibis of the Raj [source] India Today (2000)
When one writes about women, one must dip one's pen in the colours of the rainbow and scatter the dust from butterfly wings on the page..." -Denis Diderot, Sur les Femmes ... [more]
Septugenarians journey down the memory lanes of Lahore [source] The Indian Express (1998)
For the septuagenarians who had gathered to discuss life in Lahore, it was a rollicking time. Nostalgia peppered with old Punjabi jokes conjured images that had laid buried for a long time.The congreg... [more]