Comments on: Lahore Snaps VI: How We Roll

By: Adventures of a Desi Knitter » Flooded

Adventures of a Desi Knitter » Flooded — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:00:52 +0000

[...] of old Bagalkot, however, happily remain - the photos (more here) below are for my dear friend Sepoy. He will be annoyed at the lack of food pictures, but I think these will do nicely in their [...]

By: elatya

elatya — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:03:57 +0000

Perhaps the story is “meaningless” but the pictures of your journey are incredible! Maybe a personal recount, rewrite is in order?

-cheers

By: sepoy

sepoy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:00:26 +0000

Used to be that I’d take a salum tanga for 5 rupees from Sadr Bazaar to Jorey Pull. And pass wide open fields and cricket grounds along the way. Now the wide open fields and the cricket grounds are Askari Housing Complex for Army officers.

The tangas went away under a scheme which subsidized Qingqi - chinese machinery is far superior to the clippety clack of a horse trot on a wet evening road.

What story does every one keep talking about?

By: nazra

nazra — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:00:12 +0000

Let’s hear the story.

The tangas disappearing makes me sad. I have fond memories of visiting my sister when she was at FJ Med. Coll. in the 1960s and riding tongas to Anarkali for chaat!

I remember quite a few when I was last in Lahore in 2001. When did become scarce?

By: desiknitter

desiknitter — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:25:18 +0000

Did you drive the tonga like Dilip Kumar and Mohammed Rafi in Naya Daur?
What lovely pictures. I like the picture with the yellow bike, it reminds me of college and Rose Day.

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:04:31 +0000

“I have a great story … from when I was 10 … The story is meaningless, without a tanga, isn’t it?”

Even if it’s meaningless now, what’s the story?