Your Place or Mine - Lahore - Aatif Nawaz

Your Place Or Mine - Episode Five - Lahore

Episode 5! Lahore - no cheap yo momma puns.

This week we were joined by Aatif Nawaz for a journey to Lahore. It is often referred to as ‘The City of Gardens’ and some say it reached the height of its splendour under the Mughal Empire between the late 16th and early 18th century. It is important to note how much cooler this part of the world was during tudor times in Britain. They had artillery rockets for use against war elephants. Akbar I expanded the Mughal empire to consume much of modern India and Pakistan. And you love the Mughals because you love the Taj Mahal… and Lahore has more Mughal architecture than any other city.

But what obsesses Aatif more than anything is the food. This is probably because we recorded during Ramadan, and nothing makes you think about food more than fasting. (I think the hardest thing about Ramadan is actually the sleep - you have to wake up so early - respect to those who do it).

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