Chughtai Legacy

And the Forgotten Craftsman Behind It’s Making: Meraj Din Chughtai Presented by Adeel Chughtai In the historic heart of Lahore’s Walled City , at Mohalla Chabuk Sawaran , stood a modest ancestral house where a new chapter in South Asian art was written. It was here that Ustad Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897–1975)  conceived and produced his timeless masterpiece — Muraqqa-i-Chughtai  (1928). This book, containing over 50 colour lithographs  inspired by Mirza Ghalib’s poetry , is c

The Last Mughal Artist — Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897–1975) Some legacies sleep like buried treasure — until they’re rediscovered. Abdur Rahman Chughtai, celebrated as The Painter of the East , was one such legacy reborn in the modern world. Born in Lahore in 1897, he carried within him the bloodline of Mughal architects and artisans, descending directly from Ustad Ahmad Mimar Lahori , the chief architect of the Taj Mahal. This lineage of artistic genius found its culmination