Punjabi poets such as Bulleh Shah have also challenged orthodoxy and I wonder what would have happened had Bulleh Shah been alive today? Would mobs attack him also? This was the question Raza Rumi, Paksitani policy. ...

Weather-beaten citadels and moat-girded forts in Punjab, unkempt and neglected, are visible reminders of the state’s heritage The Nawabs of Malerkotla built the Malerkotla fort. It has an obvious European influence. However, the fort is today merely a sad cluster of crumbly walls and rubble mounds...

LIKE life, history, too, can play favourites and be kind to some and not so generous to others. In the last century lived a Punjabi, a Sikh who fought for the Kenyan freedom struggle and is considered as the founder of Kenya’s trade union movement. Makhan Singh,...

You can see it in the distance long before you actually arrive; its distinctive shape nestled majestically among fields of green.One of the most sacred sites in Sikhism, Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur is revered by Sikhs and..

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The amazing real-life story of an Indian mother reuniting with her Pakistani children after over 50 years, thanks to her Indian step-son and a Pakistani historian. While researching his book, The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and ...

One language, two scripts, many religions and divided land; this is how the Punjabis had been decisively atomised by history. When the red clouds of partition cleared and Punjabis tried to make sense of all the blood and dust, literature became their only refuge. ...

Dr. Manmohan Singh is an honest man, who never believed in laying extravagant foundation stones with a lot of fanfare and taking publicity for personal aggrandizement. He believes in doing prudent things and does not hanker after rewards. He lived in Amritsar after being displaced ...

One had often wondered why a certain building in Lahore is known as Australia Building, why a mosque on the Railway Station is called Australia Mosque and why a bank on Brandreth Road was called Australasia Bank before it was nationalised in the 1970s..

In an old Irish folk tale, a questioner asks Finn McCool: “Tell us Finn, what is the best music in the world?” After a long pause, Finn replies: “The music of what happens”. The man, who composed, analysed and amplified not only the music of what happens but the music...

Those were the days in Russia when St. Petersburg cuddled Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolay Gumilev and Boris Pasternak in the glowing warmth of creativity and friendship. Language was the only deity and words the,...