Dhahan Prize Announces 2015 Winners For Best Punjabi Fiction
Folk singing will not end,’ says singer Qurban Niazi
At gunpoint
Normalcy is returning to Pakistan’s Pashtun heartland after nine years of violence and bloodshed. Security has significantly improved following the successful military operations. However, the followers of the pro-Sufism Barelvi school of thought think that the. ...Jagjit Singh: The last note in ghazal gayeki
In India – the land of its birth – Urdu has, over the last few decades, been sidelined as the language of Muslims (no one community can be held be responsible for this), but full marks to film music and no less to ghazal singers from both sides of the Wagah border, ....Arriving in Pakistan on August 15, an Indian recounts his visit
Promote culture, end hatred: CM Balochistan
Bedi at a hundred
He would have been a hundred years old this year. But the writer Rajinder Singh Bedi, seems to have comfortably escaped the critical stereotyping that has marred (and continues to mar) the work of his contemporaries: Manto, caught between Partition and sex; Krishan ...
Revolution to ruins: The tragic fall of Bradlaugh Hall
The Bradlaugh Hall, a hallmark of the anti-colonial freedom movement in the subcontinent, is crumbling behind the district courts of Lahore. For almost half a century, the famous hall has served as the exclusive venue of notable political events in Lahore, but the historic .....
Footprints: The Gurdwara of Bhit Shah
The future of classical music doesn’t look good in Pakistan: Humera Channa
Humera Channa stresses on the need for music academies and shares her views on the current state of Pakistani music, Humera Channa has achieved countless milestones and garnered accolades in ...