Following the difficult time that accompanied the creation of Pakistan in 1947, life settled down somewhat for Saeed Durrani as he continued with his studies at Government College Lahore. This section from his memoirs recalls some of his teachers, including Khwaja Manzoor Hosain — an English teacher who was “a true scholar and a gentleman through and through: always dressed immaculately in a shirwani and tight-fitting Indian legwear” — as well as the physicist Rafi Muhammad Chaudhri. The latter was a “tea-drinking egg-head” who would walk five miles to work every day across Lawrence Gardens in Lahore and via the Mall Road, arriving at 7.30 am, an hour-and-a-half or so before everyone else.
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