Coming to terms with my grandparents’ trauma of Partition
The serendipity of the archive
How English Ruined Indian Literature
NEW DELHI — A BOATMAN I met in Varanasi last year, while covering the general election that made Narendra Modi prime minister of India, said, “When Modi comes to power, we will send this government of the English packing.. ...How Lahore came to claim the rebellious Mughal princess...
We were quite certain that the monument before us was not the mausoleum of Zeb-un-Nisa – the rebel Sufi poetess, daughter of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb – even though there was a board put up here, seemingly by the Archaeology Department, stating otherwise. ....Mian Muhammad Bakhsh’s Urs today
Heer-Ranjha and Sohni-Mahiwal, .....
How the Bhakti movement flourished
The Bhakti Movement from the 12th century was the Indian shape that Sufism acquired. At the same time, it was also a people’s movement ignored by most mainstream textbooks today. The popular perception about it is .....Multan through the ages
Multan is an ancient city of Asia, with a rich history, full of various episodes of heroism, tragedy and dramatism. ...
Karnataka-born prof wants Punjabi ....
How to counter colonial myths about Muslim arrival in Sindh
I t is a fact not so easily known, thus rarely acknowledged, that the British colonial project in India at one moment turned into an excavation of Indias pasts...