LAHORE

After my sister, Fauzia, died from undiagnosed tubercolosis in June 2016, I began thinking of beginnings and endings, and our early lives in Lahore came back to me.

I was born in London, but for two years, until I was five, we lived in the fashionable Lahori district of Model Town, moving back to Britain for good in 1977. Returning to Lahore for the first time in the spring of 2000 was such a shock to my system, I