Rutaba Tanvir

Rutaba Tanvir

Rutaba Tanvir is a psychologist and writer based in Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in The News on Sunday. She is also an alumnus of the esteemed Lums Young Writers Workshop 2023.

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Between Nostalgia and the Future: on the Orange Line in Lahore

Rutaba Tanvir

Nov 26, 2025

Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan (UCL Press, 2025), edited by Ammara Maqsood, Chris Moffat and Fizza Sajjad, is an ambitious anthology of 26 essays, each dedicated to one stop of the Orange Line Metro. Rutaba Tanvir ponders on the book’s premise after being part of a tour organised to critically analyse the Orange Line and its place in urban Lahore.