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I will be back in an hour.

All this while, we were busy, as a family, shifting out of 2, Loudon Street. My father had been fired for refusing to toe the line for a Congress government that had come in, and we had moved into a four room, triple-stories building, our quarters being on the first and second floors, at 7/1...

This is what happened through that horrible period from around May to December of 1971. The great fear was of losing 2 to 3 million refugees due to cholera and typhoid. Those of us who managed to avoid police patrols, trekked over paddy-fields and reached the camps saw that there was barely...

West Bengal was in an uproar. It seemed that a callous central government, fed up with, first, our putting a joint-front ( = dominated by the Communist Party - Marxist) in place of the long-standing Congress government, second, our being the site of the Naxalite armed rebellion, that they had...

The refugees started trickling in from, I think, late April or early May. The rains had not started, so they made good speed, but when they landed, they were destitute. Men, women and children, oh dear, in very poor condition, starving and exhausted, some just collapsing after they got past the...

For us, all this started on the 7th of March, 1971, when Mujib gave his call for autonomy, for independence, on Ramna Maidan. At that time, my father was a very senior policeman in Calcutta, and we lived in a house, five of us, including we three siblings, in a bungalow that, quaintly, had been...

On a very personal note: 9 out of the 13 are Bengali. Two out of those in your picture area also here.

If anyone were to ask on a private forum called insaniyat, he or she might get achingly nostalgic memories of the PTH in virtual space, that is, the one that was a forum on the Internet. The persons, if any person manages to get there, have already been mentioned.

Has anyone else READ the list of people who used to go there? Looks like anybody who mattered in the world of letters was there.

LOL. I'm merely repeating what I was told, in one case, by an actual habitue. Maybe he was bullshitting; how would I know? I wasn't there.

It WAS PakTeaHouse, in Lahore, but it was owned by two Sardar brothers. They sold the shop and moved to India, and legend has it that the then proprietor, who had met neither of them before, saw a Sardar standing on the other side of the road, looking wistfully at the crowded place. Filled with...

[/MEDIA] Same here.

Fair enough, no issues.

DRDO? You may be right, Pakistan doesn't seem to have MBRLs, but I am assuming a worst case scenario, where the Pinaka competes with these devices.

Hatf 1A, Hatf1B, and Nasr are all up to 100 kms; Ghaznavi 200 kms.* @Nilgiri, if you remember, Desert Fox wreaked carnage on our logistics and forming up place attacks. * These are grouped under Tactical Ballistic Missiles, and are emphatically not either the full Ballistic Missiles, nor...

Overdue, but the Pinaka by itself is hopelessly overmatched. The Pakistan Army has missiles with 200 kms range, and can make mincemeat of rear echelons, logistics hubs and fixed point concentrations. Very worrying.

Really impressive. Shahzad does bring out the best in people. Usually; there are exceptions.

I'm sad to say, it's started. At the visceral Pakistan-India level, not at the Pakistani politics level.

Does anybody here know about the original PakTeaHouse, the actual, physical location in Lahore?

Speak nothing but good of the dead.