undefined

Greetings from Lahore, Pakistan, whose high court offers an oasis for chatter and chai

postcard-lahore.jpg Diaa Hadid/NPR

I’m always eager for an excuse to visit the Lahore High Court in the British-built quarters of Pakistan’s second-largest city.

To me, the high court is a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture: Mughal in its curly arches that frame porticos, the Gothic detail that emerges through the red brick baked on the city’s outskirts in pluming kilns.

Within, it’s a sea of busy, flapping penguins: Pakistani lawyers in their uniforms of white shirts and

This post was originally published on this site

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Scroll to Top