LAHORE, June 6: Tactfully handling opposition within the official circles and the cabinet has been the major task for the government for realizing its dream of creating an institute for the promotion of Punjabi language and culture...

February 20, 2004: Sohan Sarinder Singh Sangha was inspired partly by his family's history. A member of a Sikh pioneer family who recorded the colourful history of the first Sikhs in Canada died over the weekend after a brief illness. ...

The 21st of February is celebrated as World Mother Tongue Day. The UNESCO, which hopes to make people conscious of the importance of the mother tongue, declares in its latest publication Education in a Multilingual World (2003), that the most ...

Probably, it was the first time in the history of Punjab assembly, that a member of provincial assembly from Rai Wind, Mr. Abdul Rashid Bhatti, opened his speech in Punjabi with the remarks that "I am not a literate person." It stunned many in the ....

The Partition of British India in 1947, which created the two independent states of India and Pakistan, was followed by one of the cruellest and bloodiest migrations and ethnic cleansings in history. The religious fury and violence that it unleashed caused the deaths ...

December 9, 1913 marks the date when the first Punjabi publication made its debut in North America. That day the Ghadar Party in California, newly formed by the Indian students at Berkeley and Punjabi farmers in the Bay area, began publishing the Punjabi edition of...

ohe partition of British India was really the partition of the Punjab. No wonder a poet from Jhang, in the heart of Pakistani Punjab, bemoans the loss of beauty. In exchange for vultures, he says, which could be a metaphor for death, uniformity and ugliness, ...

What was the language of the Indus Valley, present-day Pakistan, in the pre-Islamic period? Did this region have one language or many? Did it have one language family or many? In which script, or scripts, were they written? These questions cannot be answered ...

In the new Lahore lies buried Shah Husain and with him lies buried the myth of Lal Husain. Still, at least once a year we can hear the defused echoes of the myth. As the lights glimmer on the walls of Shalamar, the unsophisticated rhythms of swinging bodies and exulting voices ...

In the beginning was the stone. And man stood before the stone possessed by the need to live and the urge to be. In the end too, is the stone and man stands before it as unsatiated as in the beginning. Between these two points there is movement- movement ...