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Selected Articles By Authors

| Dr. Afzal Mirza | Nadir Ali | Ishtiaq Ahmed  | Shafqat Tanvir Mirza |Tariq Rehman|

| Najam Hussain Syed | Jaspal Singh | Nirpuma Dutt | Aditi Tandon|

| Harjap Singh Aujla |  Safir Rammah |

Nirpuma Dutt

Munir Niazi - Complete Poet of Our Times    Nirupama Dutt
A baby boy born in the obscure village of Khanpur near Hoshiarpur on April 9, 1928, had to migrate to the promised land of Pakistan when he was still 19 and his family settled down in Sahiwal. The trauma of displacement, in the mass migration from and the struggle to start afresh imprinted itself on his sensitive soul. The pain, however, was channelled into poetry and he was to be acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of the classical tradition, equally proficient in Urdu and his mother tongue, Punjabi. Many renowned sang his ghazals singers Mehdi Hasan made his famous verses very popular by lending his voice to them:

Pain, poetry and passion   Nirupama Dutt
They call him Pakistan’s Shiv Kumar Batalvi but he would rather be known as Afzal Saahir, who has interpreted pain his own way...

One flew over the PAINTER’S NEST  Nirupama Dutt
Painter, writer, actor and vagabond are some ways to describe Naresh Pandit who has made eloquent paintings of hills and hill people from his studio in Mandi, says Nirupama Dutt...

It is hard to partition tradition   Nirupama Dutt
Mela Chiragan or the Urs of Madho Lal Husain is a unique cultural and secular festival of Lahore.

Lal Singh Dil (1943-2007)   Nirupama Dutt

Brooding by the Border   Nirupama Dutt

Bano Bazaar's Chaat in Lahore's Anarkali   Nirupama Dutt

The Girl from Rawalpindi   Nirupama Dutt

Romance of the Chenab   Nirupama Dutt