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A visit to Gujranwala's Eimanabad

I stood at the threshold of the gurudwara. A small plaque above its wooden door declared that it was Gurudwara Chakki Sahib, Eimanabad. The door of the place of worship was locked, while a Nishan Sahib, the Sikh flag.........

Mind your language

February 21, 2016: it is a crisp morning outside the Lahore Press Club. The sun shines bright but the air is cool and the sky a clear, sharp blue. Pulsating and growing louder against the sound of passing motorcycles and tooting car horns, is the beat of adhol. Sweaty ...

Mian Mohammed Bakhsh a great Sufi Poet

Mian Mohammad Bakhsh (1830 - 1907) is one of the great Punjabi Sufi poets in the Perso-Arabic tradition. He was born in a small village Chak Thakra, close to district Mirpur, Azad Kashmir. His forefathers belong to, .. ...

A tribute to the Marxist scholar

On January 31, 2016, professor Randhir Singh breathed his last at the ripe age of 94. Till the age of 90, he remained fully active, travelling, delivering lectures, writing and interacting with his family/friends, comrades and admirers. ....

Where is the Left in saffronised Punjab?

Looking at pictures in newspapers or electronic media, one finds candidates of all major parties coloured in saffron - going by their turbans or scarves. To know their political affiliations, one has to carefully check the......

Culture: Inspiring with mysticism and heritage

My first exposure to Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst the Youth (SPIC-MACAY) was in 1983 as a dance student in Delhi, when I had the privilege to attend a lecture-demonstration by the great....

Jhulay Lal’s full circle

During a trip to India in early 1984 (my first and last), I was a second-year student at a college in Karachi. My fellow travellers on that trip were three friends, all of them Sindhi-speaking. We had travelled to Mumbai (then called Bombay) for a vacation. ...

Govt allows export of Sikh holy water

ISLAMABAD: A well in one of the holiest sites in the Sikh religion, believed to be the birthplace of the religion, has been made functional and the government has allowed the well’s holy water to be exported. ...

Why English again?

InSINCE 1999, when Unesco first declared Feb 21 International Mother Language Day, this issue has received much attention throughout the world. In Pakistan, where the language issue has always had a complexity of its own, ...

We need Punjabi in schools, not Arabic

The latest addition to the long list of absurdities espoused by our ruling classes came from MNA Naeema Kishwar Khan a couple weeks back. She proposed and defended a bill that would make it compulsory to teach Arabic in all government schools from gradey...