The city of Lahore pulsates with a history measured in centuries, its air thick with the scent of jasmine, fried fish, and diesel fumes. It is a city of magnificent duality: the rigid, geometric splendor of the Mughal era contrasting sharply with the fluid, chaotic energy of ultra-modern development. To speak of Lahore is to speak of grand narratives—the poetry of Iqbal, the grandeur of...