1. April 26, 2013: Guru Nanak, a great seer and a true son of soil! — Part II
3. April 12, 2013: Punjab: Disowning the owning and owning the disowning!
4. April 5, 2013: Mela Chiraghan: mystic laughs and poet sings!
5. Mach 26, 2013: Mela Chiragan: Mystic laughs and poet sings! – Part-I
6. March 15, 2013: In praise of animals!
7. March 8, 2013: The Punjabi literary tradition: Baba Farid blazes the trail!
8. March First, 2013: New books: poetry and linguistics
9. Feb 22, 2013: Language: The rise of the Persian and the early Punjabi!
10. Feb 17, 2013: The 'ninth' festival in Lahore!
11. Feb 15, 2013: Language: Sanskrit and Prakrits!
12. Feb 2, 2013: Language: threat of diversity
13. January 25, 2013: Food: Punjabi gathering and crowd!
14. January 18, 2013: Ravi and Chenab: demons and lovers
15. January 4, 2013: Winter: migratory birds and metaphors
16. December 28, 2012: Music of poetry and poetry of music
17. December 21, 2012: Cities without trees
18. December 14, 2012: Aryan caste system and socially mobile Punjabis
19. July 5, 2013: New books: novel, poetry and translations
20. June 28, 2013: Music: live performance designed to be a social signal!
21. June 21, 2013: A spectre haunts Punjab!
22. June 7, 2013: Damodar Gulati: poet who immortalised Heer and Ranjha — Part I
23. June 14, 2013: Damodar Gulati: poet who immortalised Heer and Ranjha — Part II
24. July 13, 2013: Sethi’s gestures for the good of Punjabi
25. May 24, 2013: The faceless and the nameless in our city!
26. July 10, 2013: Retaining the power and the art of survival — Part I
27. July 17, 2013: Retaining the power and the art of survival — Part II
28. July 3, 2013: New books: woman voice, oral history and urban desolation!
1. Jan 3, 2014: Spectre of history haunts Punjabis
2. Jan 17, 2014: Cities without birds: Metaphors for lifeless tomorrow!
3. Jan 31, 2015: Mian Kamal Din: unusual narrative of Punjab – Part-II
4. Feb 7, 2014: How Harappa is different from Mohenjo-Daro!
5. Feb 28, 2014: Celebrating the Mother Language!
6. Mar 7, 2014: A classical poet with modern mind! — Part I
7. Mar 14, 2014: A classical poet with modern mind! –Part II
8. Apr 4, 2014: Books: novel and dictionary of technical terms
9. Apr 18, 2014: punjab notes: Chet and Vesakh: spring and harvest
10. May 2, 2014: Punjab Notes : Shrines: Public spaces with spiritual ambiance
11. May 30, 2014: Punjab Notes: Woman in public: body language born of fear!
12. Jun 13, 2014: Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab
13. Jun 20, 2014: Punjab Notes: Sufi music: new cultural hocus-pocus
14. Jun 27, 2014: Punjab Notes: Once upon a time…
15. Jul 18, 2014: Punjab Notes: No to state, yes to state jobs
16. Jul 25, 2014: Punjab Notes: Parliamentarians’ contempt for peoples’ languages
17. Aug 1, 2014: Punjab Notes: Sawan! A world of romance lost
18. Aug 8, 2014: Punjab Notes: Independence: remembering the dead
19. Aug 15, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Shortcut: ‘This world is in haste’
20. Aug 22, 2014: Punjab Notes: Baba Bulleh Shah: In quest of human identity
21. Sep 5, 2014: Punjab Notes: Books: stories of said and unsaid
22. Sep 12, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Poverty: dignity and indignity
23. Sep 19, 2014: Punjab Notes: Fury of waters!
24. Oct 3, 2014: Punjab’s middle class: hokey self-righteousness!
25. Oct 10, 2014: Burning house parable!
26. Oct 17, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Political crowd: reality of illusion
27. Oct 24, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Dhahan Prize: Honouring Punjabi literature
28. Oct 31, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Celibacy and our great poets
29. Nov 7, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES:: Celibacy and our great poets (Part-II)
30. Nov 14, 2014: Punjab notes: space for religious diversity
31. Dec 5, 2014: Punjab Notes: Contradictory popular narratives
32. Dec 12, 2014: Punjab Notes: Punjab’s dilemma!
33. Dec 19, 2014: Punjab Notes: Legends: deciphering the undeciphered
34. Dec 26, 2014: Children of the poor: the killers and the killed
1. Jan 2, 2015: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names
2. Jan 9, 2015: Punjab Notes: Punjab’s elite: display of power
3. Jan 16, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: politician-I
4. Jan 23, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: mullah-II
5. Jan 30, 2015: Punjab Notes | Emergence of new heroes: NGO’s executive-III
6. Feb 6, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: real estate developer – IV
7. Feb 13, 2015: No Punjabi please! We are Muslim Punjabis
8. Feb 20, 2015: Punjab Notes: Cheerful Mother Language Day celebrations in cheerless Punjab
9. Feb 27, 2015: Punjab Notes: Mother language, people and politicians
10. Mar 6, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Basant: yellow fields and Lahore’s colourless sky
11. Mar 13, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Woman and Pakistani languages
12. Mar 20, 2015: Crowd: victims and predators
13. Mar 27, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Caste: social and political power
14. Apr 3, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Family: woman versus woman
15. Apr 10, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Young landlords: bulls and bullying
16. Apr 17, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Vesakhi: harvest of joy
17. Apr 24, 2015: Punjab: Did you hear what the Chinese president said?
18. May 1, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Why do they want to look like landlords?
19. May 8, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: City: road, automobile and pedestrian
20. May 15, 2015: Artist: creativity and dignity
21. May 22, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: an unusual novel and verses born of spontaneity
22. May 29, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Violence: assertion and negation of power
23. Jun 5, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Nasreen Anjum Bhatti: an inimitable poetic voice
24. Jun 12, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Mystics and scientists: how to describe the indescribable!
25. Jun 19, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Sachal: Fresh sound of music from Lahore!
26. Jun 26, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: Zahid’s novel and Sajid’s verses
27. Jul 03, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Abid Ameeq: an inspiring poet and challenging intellectual
28. Jul 10, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Mystery of Nau Nihal Singh’s death: the storyteller’s version
29. Jul 17, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Work: social disgrace or self-objectification
30. Jul 24, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Irshad Taunsvi: poetic reflections
31. Aug 07, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Slums: the city of the poor
32. Aug 28, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: sufism, burial register and a female voice
33. Sep 04, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Founders of Punjabi literary tradition and class oppression
34. Sep 11, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Afzal Ahsan Randhawa: a glimpse of Punjab and its traditions
35. Sep 25, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Literary critic: tradition and denial of intellectual independence
36. Oct 02, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Dr Saeed Bhutta: people’s history and storytelling
37. Oct 09, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Culture and system: accepting the unacceptable
38. Oct 16, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Modern Lahore: cross road and get killed
39. Oct 23, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: colonialism, language and spiritual music
40. Oct 30, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: East and west Punjab: nature of politics
41. Nov 06, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Not all the Hindus are Hindus!
42. Nov 13, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Conference: gathering or knowledge?
43. Nov 20, 2015: Punjab Notes: Vehat: where great warriors clashed
44. Nov 27, 2015: Punjab Notes: Sufism: commoditising of what is not a commodity
45. Dec 04, 2015: Punjab Notes: Classical literature: female voice, imagined and real
46. Dec 11, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: poetry and research-based criticism
47. Dec 18, 2015: Punjab Notes: Beas River: where troops of Alexander mutinied
1. Jan 08, 2016: Punjab Notes: Social media: Pure language is dead language
2. Jan 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: ‘Whereof one can speak, thereof one must not be silent.
3. Jan 22, 2016: Punjab Notes: Governor Mulraj and Chaudhry Bahaab’s buffalo — (Part I)
4. Jan 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Governor Mulraj and Chaudhry Bahaab’s buffalo — (Part II)
5. Feb 05, 2016: Punjab Notes: You can hear her singing in the dark
6. Feb 12, 2016: Punjab Notes: Language: colonialism, power and class — part-I
7. Feb 19, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Language: colonialism, power and class — part-II
8. March 04, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Woman: less or more than man
9. March 11, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Memes: The past threatening the present
10. March 18, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Of courage and cowardice — Part I
11. March 25, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Of courage and cowardice — Part II
12. April 01, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: nightmares and birds
13. April 08, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Stories and translation of Sufi poetry
14. April 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Heer Waris Shah: He composed it 250 years ago
15. April 22, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Dacoit: criminal and hero
16. April 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Corruption: as old as pyramids
17. May 06, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: slaughtering of nature and history
18. May 20, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Summer: content and discontent
19. May 27, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Peasants on The Mall: starvation wages
20. June 03, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Cell phone: empowering the working class?
21. June 10, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Dr Faqir: retrieving the classical texts
22. June 17, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Minister, mullah and mom
23. June 24, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Rai Nasir: poet from the sacred land of the Guru
24. July 01, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Punjab: battle for water and food
25. July 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Tassi Dharti: a song of struggle and despair
26. July 22, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab notes: Woman’s body: a perennial challenge
27. July 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Waris Shah: neither a spiritual Guru nor a communist
28. Aug 05, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: music refuses to die
29. Aug 12, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Composing poetry for publishers
30. Aug 19, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Mob justice: state and society
31. Aug 26, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Source of human happiness: more or less?
32. Sep 02, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Bulleh Shah: demystifying mystic fires
33. Sep 16, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: The great Mughal and Dulla Bhatti: both or none!
34. Sep 23, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Culture: it cuts both ways
35. Sep 30, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab notes: Samina Hasan Syed: painting an audio landscape
36. Oct 07, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Saintly poets: denial of saintliness
37. Oct 14, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Muzaffar Ghaffaar’s classics ‘within reach’
38. Oct 21, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: An English medium school’s definition of foul language
39. Oct 28, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: People in cities: urbanised without urbanity (Part I)
40. Nov 04, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: People in cities: urbanised without urbanity (Part II)
41. Nov 11, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Parveen Malik and Anjum Qureshi: voice the unvoiced
42. Nov 18, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Scholars on ‘People and the City’
43. Nov 25, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Water: vanished river and expanded city
45. Dec 09, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Politics of culture: celebrating ‘ajrak’ and ‘topi’
46. Dec 16, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Population: ticking bomb or nature’s gift?
47. Dec 23, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Mr Achakzai, Mianwali and Afghans
48. Dec 30, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Growers: seeds of discontent and despair
1. Janury 6, 2017: Punjab Notes: All the makings of a futuristic city
2. Janury 13, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Punjab is much bigger than Lahore
3. Janury 20, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Zafar Iqbal: the wages of creative sin
4. Feb 3, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Census: Punjab is not afraid of it
5. Feb 11, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Muzzafar Ghaffar’s Bulleh Shah and Samina Asma’s verses
6. Feb 24, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Mother language: realising the strength of diversity
7. March 10, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Contemporary woman: empowerment or burden doubled!
8. March 17, 2017: Punjab Notes: Potohar’s urials, Alexander’s horses and American hunters
9. March 24, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Water and morbidity of cultural habits
10. March 31, 2017: Punjab Notes: Madho Lal Hussain: glow of an eternal flame
11. April 21, 2017: Punjab Notes: Safdar Shah’s Punjabi Grammar and Nuzhat’s stories for children
12. May 5, 2017: Village and city: enriching and impoverishing
13. May 12, 2017: Punjab Notes: Social media: Pure language is dead language
14. May 26, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Young men from countryside dying as aliens
15. June 2, 2017: Punjab Notes: Promoting language and culture
16. June 16, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Poetry: things turn into their opposites and more is less
17. June 23, 2017: Punjab Notes: Classical texts: salvaging the literary heritage
18. June 30, 2017: Punjab Notes: After the fire the noise of muddled thinking!
19. July 7, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Farmers’ fading love for trees
20. July 21, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: They love children but not the poor ones
21. July 28, 2017: Punjab Notes: The University of Sargodha: aversion to teaching languages
22. Aug 04, 2017: Punjab Notes: Council of elders delivers its verdict: rape for rape
23. Aug 11, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence and Partition: how ordinary mortals describe it!
24. Aug 25, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence: ignored elements of colonial experience (Part-I)
25. Sep 01, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence: ignored elements of colonial experience (Part II)
26. Sep 08, 2017: Punjab Notes: Nasreen’s imagination and Paul’s history of journalism
27. Sep 15, 2017: Punjab Notes: Caste biases — culture proves stronger than faith
28. Sep 22, 2017: Punjab Notes: Anonymity: freedom from the tyranny of the past
29. Sep 29, 2017: Punjab Notes: Randhawa – litterateur who took writing as defiance
30. Oct 13, 2017: Punjab Notes: How concrete conditions shape poetry (Part-I)
31. Oct 20, 2017: Punjab Notes: How concrete conditions shape poetry (Part II)
32. Oct 27, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Bureaucracy: power and caste
33. Nov 03, 2017: Punjab Notes: History for you is what you think it is! (Part I)
34. Nov 10, 2017: Punjab Notes: History for you is what you think it is (Part II)
35. Nov 17, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: The city: a window or a cul-de-sac
36. Nov 24, 2017: Punjab Notes: Dying in foreign lands or getting killed on the way
37. Dec 01, 2017: Punjab Notes: Crowd: it is the objective that holds it together
38. Dec 08, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Sadiqullah’s poetry: aesthetics of love for people and places
39. Dec 15, 2017: Punjab Notes: Why do Punjab’s mystic poets frequently talk of death?
40. Dec 22, 2017: Punjab Notes: Two new novels: elegy or eulogy or both?
41. Dec 29, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Can you imagine a city sans foliage and feathers?
1. Janury 12, 2018: Punjab Notes: Lack of patience and process of self-destruction
2. Janury 19, 2018: Punjab Notes: Dr Shahzad’s spirituality, Anjum Qureshi’s poetic mundanity
3. Janury 26, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Ustad Nazar Hussain: we stopped listening, he stopped singing
4. Feb 9, 2018: Punjab Notes: Highways: roads that enable us to get somewhere or...!
5. Feb 23, 2018: Punjab Notes: Two-day Punjabi Conference: venue does matter
6. March 2, 2018: Punjab Notes: Books: Historical fiction and literary criticism
7. March 16, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Punjab resisted invaders from North, South and East (Part-II)
8. March 23, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Irshad Taunsvi’s prose and Azam Malik’s poetry
9. March 30, 2018: Punjab Notes: The other side of social media
10. April 6, 2018: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names
11. April 20, 2018: Punjab Notes: New provinces: prime minister’s sane approach (Part-I)
12. April 27, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: New provinces: prime minister’s sane approach (Part-II)
13. May 7, 2018: Sufi saints and their descendants: part of the solution? (Part I)
14. May 14, 2018: Sufi saints and their descendants: part of the solution? (Part II)
15. May 21, 2018: Old age: wisdom, senility and despair
16. May 28, 2018: Punjab Notes: Aslam Rasoolpuri’s criticism and Mudassar Bashir’s stories
17. June 17, 2018: Akbar and Dulla Bhatti: resistance and dreams of new polity
18. June 25, 2018: Punjab Notes: Our classical literary age sans woman writer
19. July 2, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Children stories from the East and poetry from the South
20. July 9, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Monsoon: rains loved as much as dreaded
21. July 16, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Caste: it can make you win or lose election
22. July 23, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Remembering a poet who is forgotten but not dead
23. Aug 6, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Sardar Muhammad Khan: a life spent in search of word
24. Aug 13, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Literary communalism in Punjab: a historical perspective — Part I
25. Aug 20, 2018: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names
26. Aug 27, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: delights of folk music and verses from abroad
27. Sep 3, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Rule of law: fast vanishing colonial legacy
28. Sep 10, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Remembering Ustad Daman: man who confronted the powerful
29. Sep 17, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Death: experience of what can’t be experienced
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