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Nolkhi Kothi Okara.

My first introduction to Nau Lakhi Kothi was through Ali Akbar Natiq's novel. At that time, I did not know that this novel had anything to do with reality

After some time when I found out that it was a real building, my curiosity led me to visit the Nolakhi Kothi in Okara. Though it has become a ruin now, but I was seeing it from the eyes of the main character in Novel William, it was how parties would be held in this place and how William spent his childhood in its corridors. On the fourteenth night of the moon, he listened to poetry from his friends by placing a board in the water of Lower Bari Doab canal near the mansion

As soon as I reached this mansion, a strange feeling came over me. William's entire journey from his childhood to his old age passed before my eyes. And the time I spent in this ruin felt like I was walking these corridors with William a century ago.

How William decided to stay in England until he died in love with the land instead of going to England after the partition

Although many legends related to this building are known. But since I was introduced to him through this novel, No Lakhi Kothi will always be William's love for me. I don't know if William was a real character or fictional. But whoever owned the place would inevitably have loved it the way William was portrayed in the novel.

The mansion is now only a remnant of time, its spacious rooms are now gloomy and dark, its strong structures are now crumbling, and they are reminders of this great way of life.