Sing and dance with Madho Laal
“He is beautiful,” she said. Her bright brown eyes were alight with joy. It’s almost mid-night, but the street is glimmering with lights. Looking at the crowd dancing on the beat of drums, she added: “I love him.... The lost letter
On Bhagat Singh’s death anniversary, the writer looks at a newly revealed document that establishes him as a mature political thinker. ... Hogwash school of history
Whitewashing history is a national past time in Pakistan. Ours is not the only country indulging in the practice however, as nation states around the world have construed particular narratives of history, eliminating unsavory,...Honour killing : Family, property and woman!
The phenomenon of honour killing is widespread in our country. Why woman is ‘honour’ of the family? Why she needs to be ‘protected’ at all cost when her arrival as a child not only remains uncelebrated but is ....On hegemony of language and linguistic diversity
The Pashto speakers, who cannot pronounce certain words of Urdu in a correct way, are always laughed at in the media. Today, almost all the comic text messages circulated via mobile phones are related to Pathans ...English -- more than a subject
LAHORE: The teaching of the English language in Pakistan is class-based as the country’s education system is programmed to provide different levels of English teaching to people belonging to different ,...When I met Khushwant Singh
I had never spoken to a Sikh. Strangely, there were no Sikh students in the Christian missionary school, where I studied in Bombay. There was an assortment of Hindus, Muslims and ...Fistful of Khushwant`s ashes saved for Pakistan
NEW DELHI: A fistful of Indian writer Khushwant Singh’s ashes have been saved by his family to be taken to Pakistan where an unnamed friend wants to put them in the ground where he was born, the writer’s son has said. ..... Bhagat Singh: for the deaf to hear
More than eight decades after he proudly walked to the gallows in the Lahore Central Jail on March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh caused a fierce controversy when a move was made by certain civil society organisations and ...Sindh Assembly takes the lead
Our linguistic diversity has been an intellectual and political conundrum for the state and the ruling segment of society for too long. Instead of logical reasoning and recognition of ground realities, ill-driven ideological. ...