A Misconstrued Narrative of Conquest
Press Release - 20th April 2017
Jerusalem's 800-year-old Indian hospice
Around the year 1200, little more than a decade after the armies of Saladin had forced the Crusaders out of the city, an Indian dervish walked into Jerusalem. .. ...From ‘Punjab University, Lahore’ to Chandigarh
The first ever University of India – the University of Calcutta was set up on 24 January, 1857. In the same year – on the 24th of July, 1857 – the University of Bombay was set up and a few months later ....'A musician’s family struggles a lot'
Think it's tough to be a female musician?
On the road with Pakistani folk singer
“This is the longest I’ve been away from my children,” said Sanam Marvi while trying to FaceTime with her husband back home in Lahore.....Mahmood’s poems and Sobhati’s novella
Poetry still happens though its takers have considerably dwindled in our age driven by pragmatism which is grist to the mill of global capitalism that holds a deceptive vision of opulent material life for those who can ‘make it’. ...
From Punjab to Punjab: a tribute to my grandfather
Partition Stories
70 years after Independence, we recall the trauma of the division of a country and culture – and of homes, families and lives. The story of Bibi Hamida, as narrated to and translated from the Punjabi by Haider Shahbaz.y...