The Artisans of Lahore’s Walled City (Financial Times)

In Pakistan’s ‘cultural capital’, craftsmen offer a link to the past and, thanks to a major restoration project, hope for the future.

A feature for the Financial Times.

The artisans of Lahore's Walled City

Perched outside his workshop in Lahore's Walled City, Mohamed Tahir plays a harmonium while watching the passing melee. The melancholy sounds of the instrument are barely audible over the din of motorbikes and machinery, but still they evoke something of Lahore's history, a world that lives on beneath the dust and frantic rhythms of everyday life.