It is unfortunate that the National As sembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice recently rejected a bill seeking the status of national language for ‘regional languages’. Linguists across the world point out that referring to native tongues as ‘regional or local....

An account of the Punjabi soldiers who became the cannon fodder of the colonising power in World War I, and the mournful songs and literature this episode in history generated in its wake ...

PESHAWAR: The programme under which regional languages were introduced as a compulsory subject in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa schools at nursery level during the last academic year has come to a halt. ...

The answers to these questions vary widely depending on who is being asked. A large part of our national identity stems from our sense of history and culture that are deeply rooted in the land and in the legacy of the region’s ancient civilisations. Religion has also played ...

On Independence Day, Indian band, "Maati Baani" launched a melodious song, "Rang Rangiya" in collaboration with various Pakistani music artists, to celebrate the unity in diversity between both nations....

Former Indian captain Kapil Dev Nikhanj was unquestionably one of the greatest all-rounders of the game. Having made his Test debut against Pakistan at Faisalabad in 1978 as a 19-year-old medium-pace bowler he continued to progress with both ball and bat to compete at ...

Like other ethnic minorities, Sikhs have been conventionally represented in popular Hindi cinema either as brave warriors or as uncouth rustics. In the nationalist text in which the imagined subject was an urban North Indian, Hindu male, Sikh characters were ....

In early 1997, an emotionally challenged man, driven by the daily din marking 50 years of India's Independence, managed to break into the then unguarded martyrs' museum outside Khatkar Kalan village. Ignoring anything of real monetary value, he made......

CHANDIGARH: In historian Bipan Chandra's death, Punjab has lost the man who was instrumental in finding many lost documents related to martyr Bhagat Singh, including his seminal essay "Why I Am an Atheist?", which shed a new light on the revolutionary. Chandra ...