Photos of Punjabi Activists of Pakistan, Feb 2015-6
A milestone in Punjab research
A haveli by any other name…
It is a building whose significance has drifted from living memory. Very few people who are still alive would remember that the majestic building that today houses the Education Department’s offices on Murree Road and the Government Girls High. ...Rai Bahadur Kanhaiya Lal’s Lahore is gone forever
Rai Bahadur Kanhaiya Lal was one of the most prominent engineers of his time, as well as being a well-known poet in Urdu and Persian and a cultural historian, who belonged to a Kayastha family of note. The Kayasthas are an Indian caste group who are referred to as the direct blood .. ....Food Stories: Chai garam chai!
The death of Urdu, the new illiterate
For a new American ambassador, India is a kind of homecoming
JALANDHAR, India — A quiet stroll around the old neighborhood had been planned. But word spread quickly that U.S. Ambassador Richard Verma was returning to his family’s home in northern India after years in the United States. ...The sins of the father
As the sun set on the mighty Mughal empire in India and the last two ceremonial emperors, Akbar Shah II and Bahadur Shah II, remained largely confined to the Red Fort in Delhi under the protection of the British East India Company, a new Sikh power was .....
Defined by timelessness
Jhulay Lal's cradle of tolerance
It was the curiosity to confirm this statement that led me to the shrine of Jhulay Lal. Interestingly, contrary to the popular conceptions of the puritanical and narrow confines of religion, there still exist certain elements in our society that are a manifestation of our centuries’ old traditions ...