There is much that needs to be done for the preservation and development of the Punjabi language in Canada. In my view, currently, it is a crucial time for the Punjabi community to work towards creating a brighter future for our language in Canada. ...
The Lyallpur Sulekh Mela (Lyallpur Literary Festival) held in the open ground of the Faisalabad Arts Council on 15-16 February 2016 was a milestone in Punjab’s cultural and intellectual revival and renaissance. Mr. Tariq Jatala, Mr. Ahmed Raza and I travelled together from . ...
Distances sometimes sharpen the sentiments of love. And love in turn gives birth to great literature and philosophical thoughts. Its expression cannot be confined to the cliched idioms, such as wavy locks, gazelle eyes, rosy cheeks, velvet lips and slender .. ....
The poems in Dooji Aurat show a range of emotions — from melancholic to erotic, from profane to maternal to even morbid to suffocating Lee Chang-dong’s award winning film Poetry explores how loss of memory,...
Nasreen Anjum Bhatti had no regrets while she was in our midst; having lost her we have many Describing herself as “Balochi by birth, Sindhi by domicile and Punjabi by marriage” Nasreen Anjum Bhatti rightly claimed that she belonged to the whole....
Saeed Bhutta has single handedly salvaged something of remarkable cultural and literary value and it is a work we should be thankful for It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the world has changed more ...
A forty year record of the achievements of Sheikh Sharif Sabir, the great Punjabi scholar, researcher, editor, poet and lover of language Sheikh Mohammad Sharif Sabir, the great Punjabi scholar, .....
The second half of the 20th century saw a great deal of strife and conflict but it offered a rarefied gift to music lovers in the subcontinent. It turned the raga into a unique new genre known as the filmi gana (movie song). Like the thumri,...
Two aspects stand out very prominently in this work on Sufism in general and Sindhi Sufism in particular. Michel Boivin has rightly emphasised on the vernacular nature of Sufism in the area and he has also placed Sufism in the historical context and its ...