Beloved City Writings on Lahore

by Bapsi Sidhwa

This is a collection of writings on the city of Lahore ranging from the poetry of Allama Iqbal and stories of Rudyard Kipling to musings of contemporary journalists in Pakistan. Edited by Bapsi Sidhwa, it captures the history, beauty and romance that is Lahore through the different ages.

Genres: Pakistan, Nonfiction, History, Travel, Anthologies, Literature, India

361 pages

First published September 26, 2005

About the author

Bapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.
She was best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel, on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" was released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citizens Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with the title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa".