TNS – The News on Sunday

How a man of meagre resources used his hard-earned money to cultivate his hobby, and collected some rare pieces in Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi films

Punjabi Khoj Garh is a research library which boasts nearly 10,000 books on diverse disciplines such as literature, history, poetry, and criticism

A slim biography of Pathanay Khan that skilfully dissects the life and times of the versatile artiste

Academic turned poet Salimur Rehman is a rare collector of gramophone records

Apart from nearly 45,000 books, including magazines, Ahmed Salim has in his collection complete files of some newspapers too

By compiling his blogs together, Akhtar Balouch ferrets out the forgotten benefactors of Karachi

Asim Kalyar’s personal library is home to nearly 1,000 books on Ghalib. It’s been an expensive hobby but something that is very dear to him

A biography of Jam Saqi, a die-hard left-wing leader widely hailed as the voice of the common people

If you feel jaded by reading official but insipid history books, this is the book you have been waiting for

Hamid Ali Khan has been selling and repairing pens on the Mall Road for the past 44 years now. He can neither leave his profession nor the place