Call to follow sufis' message
LAHORE, Feb 11: Speakers at a seminar on Friday paid rich tributes to Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Shakarganj urging the people to follow his example of shunning hypocrisy....Punjabi Music & Poetry
Was it a blessing in disguise OR he indeed had a personal crush on the Punjabi Arts OR it was the kind auspices of mere luck (though short lived luck if it was the luck) to have Faiz Ahmad Faiz (as his Advisor for Arts); Josh Maleeh Abadi (as his ... Punjabi needs a lot of literacy
Speaking the same language is so much an idiomatic nicety to describe similarity of views as it is an indication of how endangered lingual diversity is across the world. "Catastrophic is the word to describe the situation," says Dr Dennis L Malone, an,...Ustad Daman: A Punjabi poet
LAHORE: Behind the Lahore Fort exists a world of its own. A walk in the area can lead you to the akhara of famous pehlwans, a gaggle of drug addicts and a kiosk selling the best payas in town.....A matter of script
VISUALIZE the following scene: a gorgeous, voluptuous heroine, naively ignorant of her winning advantages, and a prey to gnawing doubts and gloomy misgivings, allows herself to be sneeringly treated like a two-bit extra or a dime-a-dozen chorus girl....A few who made a difference
The Punjabi literature produced on both sides of the Punjab border since partition is surprisingly equally robust and of a matching and complementary high quality. This is in spite of the fact that there is no official recognition for the Punjabi language in,...From Lahore in 1955 to Mohali in 2005
I remember strangers were walking around in our locality of Mozang, some standing in front of houses and shops. Some of them had beards and turbans but most looked like our own elders. Some of them were crying and our own elders would ...Beyond 'Hindu' and 'Muslim':
Dara Shikoh, eldest son of the Mughal Emperor of India, Shah Jahan, and heir apparent to his throne, was born near Ajmer in 1615 C.E.. It is said that before Dara's birth, Shah Jahan had paid a visit to the tomb of the great Chishti Sufi mystic...Balle-balle at Mohali
Mulk Raj Anand: A voice for the oppressed
One of twentieth century best-known Indian writers and a major voice against social injustices, Mulk Raj Anand brought the Hindi heartland alive for English readers as few others have managed....