Second World Punjabi Conference
Until the rebelling sepoys from Meerut crossed the Yamuna river early in the morning of 11 May 1857, what had happened to disturb the equanimity of Lord Canning and his advisers was only a series of incidents of unrest within the ... Minoo, the true bridge-builder
IT was a grievous blow to those who strove to build bridges between Pakistan and India to hear that Minoo Bhandara, ex-member of the Pakistan National Assembly, had died.
Apparently, while on a visit to China, he met with a car accident and was seriously ... My brother and I loved it
Daljit Nagra's father, Sewa, worked in factories when he came to England from the Punjab, then ran a shop in Sheffield. Nagra is an English teacher in Brent, north London. He began writing poetry 'seriously' at 30 and,...REVIEW: Paradise lost
Prof Dr Harkirat Singh was for long haunted by the feeling that justice had not been done to the people of East and West Punjab who lost so much at the time of partition in 1947. Eventually, the editor of Daily Tribune (Punjabi) ....Amrita Pritam: 1919-2005
Amrita Pritam never woke up on the afternoon of October 31, 2005 and the world is emptier without her musings. She embodied the fullness of poetic expression, creativity and the intensity of a woman in the perpetual state of ...An Animal’s Instinct.
The mercury had dropped to below zero. It was cold enough to freeze the blood in their veins, hence the people of the colony huddled in the warmth of their homes....Piro Preman, the real love affair
My essay last week "Punjabis without Punjabi" (May 24) evoked very strong emotions – mostly full of enthusiasm to do something to ascribe respectability to the Punjabi language. Before I present some ideas on that theme, ...Punjabi: keeping faith in mother tongue
THERE is worrisome news about the demise of the languages in this era of globalisation. One language seems to be dominating, obliterating languages, dialects and cultures in the process. Mortality rate of languages and more ...Punjabis Without Punjabi
The Beloved
Bullhe nun parhaya te oh sarangi phar nacheya te ganveya. Tenun parhaya te tun ishqiya qisse likhe.’ (I taught Bulleh Shah and he danced and sang playing a violin. I taught you and you wrote a love story), were the alleged . ...