Reviewed by Shafqat Tanvir Mirza
Prof Dr Harkirat Singh was for long haunted by the feeling that justice had not been done to the people of East and West Punjab who lost so much at the time of partition in 1947. Eventually, the editor of Daily Tribune (Punjabi) prevailed upon .....Waris Shah and sociology
SHAAISTA Nuzhat has done her masters in philosophy on the sociological aspect of Waris Shah's poetry which, according to her, is limited to the story of Heer-Ranjha, an actual happening of the period of Behlol Lodhi in 1484 AD. .... Sachal Sarmast in English
Sachal Sarmast Kafis translated into English by Muzaffar A Ghaffa; pp 214; price Rs 795 (hb) Publishers: Perozsons, 60. The Mall, Lahore.....Amrita Pritam: sensitive soul of Punjab
BORN in 1919 in Gujranwala, Amrita Pritam was the instrument of revival of Punjabi language and literature in our part of Punjab. This was mainly due to her famous poem on the partition addressed to Waris Shah in which she grieved over the ......Nanak in Punjabi and Urdu
AFTER his retirement, octogenarian poet, teacher and researcher Sharif Kunjahi has done much more research work on Punjabi themes than during his time spent in the education field. He is lucky that he was extended full cooperation for publishing his books by the Al-Meer .........A Victim of Apathy
Mela Chiraghan or the Urs of Madho Lal Husain has long been thrown out of the Shalamar Gardens and the streets which lead to the mazar of the sufi poet have been encroached upon, courtesy the Qabza group....Ranjit Singh: more secular than religious
THE Indian government has refused to permit the Sikhs to visit Pakistan to celebrate traditional Besakhi festival in Lahore where their only political hero, Ranjit Singh, became Maharaja in 1802 at the age of 22. Incidentally, Besakhi in the Punjab took a political colour after the Jallianwala.....New cultural challenges
A FIVE-day international Punjabi conference was held at Chandigarh towards the end of December. The conference decided to set up a new organization, the World Punjabi Foundation, it will. start working soon. Ms Afzal Tauseef a writer and a columnist has been nominated as......Title
Characterisation of 'woman' in Punjabi literature is unique in more than one ways. For instance, she is portrayed as the lover rather than the beloved -- the ma'shooq of Persian ghazal; she is described as a member of the female collective -- trinjan or aatan; she is shown in.....Title
There is some of Najm Hosain Syed's work, where you can tell the earlier writings from his later ones, at least in his poetry, but not in his prose, criticism or drama. This book is a collection of newspaper articles written by him in his mid 20s....