Shiv Singh, the Blackrobed Painter and Sculptor
Painter and designer, but primarily a sculptor, SHIV SINGH was born in Hoshiarpur in 1938. From 1958 to 1963, he studied in Punjab College of Arts. From 1963 to 1968, he taught art at the Sainik School, Kapurthala.... Talat Mahamood’s Love for Punjabi
Talat Mahmood was a symbol of finesse in manners, language and singing. During good old days, in the Indo-Gangetic plains of Northern India there were three great centers of distinctly different cultures. Calcutta was the home of ... Pakistan's garrison state legacy
In his seminal work, The Garrison State: The Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947 (New Delhi and London: Sage Publications, 2005) Tan Tai Yong, a prominent historian of the colonial Punjab era, at the Institute..Partition of Punjab
Scholarly works on the partition of India are legion, but those focusing on the partition of the Punjab are very few. Ian Talbot and Kirpal Singh indeed have pioneering works on the Punjab partition to their credit, but much more ....Legendary Singer Surinder Kaur
WE are celebrating the independence days of Pakistan and India in August, but there are bitter memories in the eyes of those who saw the events unfolding at the time of the first independence-day. Surinder Kaur ...Munir Niazi’s magic worlds
Munir Niazi was the only egoist whose ego irritated no one because it came through with such charm and humour. After Faiz Ahmed Faiz died, someone asked Munir how the great vacuum created by the poet’s death would ever ,...Waris Shah Rhymes in English
“Bullhe nun parhaya te oh sarangi phar nacheya te ganveya. tenun parhaya te tun ishqiya qisse likhe” (I taught Bullhe Shah and he danced and sang playing violin. I taught you and you wrote love story), were the alleged ...Celebrating the poet of love
LAHORE: Jandiala Sher Khan, a small town on Hafizabad Road, some 14 kilometres away from Sheikhupura gets over-packed from July 23 to 25 every year when people from all over Punjab visit the town to pay tribute...Baba Najmi’s world
The Moorish Mosque
There is a marble plaque built into the wall of the main mosque in the centre of Kaputhala town which reads as follows: "The Moorish Mosque was constructed on the order of his Highness Maharaja Jagajit Singh Bahadur.. ...