The drum beats of Lahore-based Panjpāni group featuring 22 dholis (drummers) of international fame, headed by Pappu Saaen, wove a magic with its rhythmic sounds and left the audience spellbound at the 5th Amritsar-Lahore Saanjh...
I often think that despite their so-called militant nature, the Sikhs (and Punjabis in general) are among the most forgiving communities. Look at the way they do not remind us constantly about the wounds of the 1947 Partition, the assault on the Golden ...
A yesteryears popular music director of Punjabi films Sardul Singh Kwatra once, who is no more us, once painfully remarked that the Bombay film industry can swing in extremes, at times it can be very generous and at others very cruel.,...
In 1739 a child was born to a respectable and saintly Faruqui family of Daraza, a small village about 32 miles from Khairpur Mirs and a mile from Ranipur Railway Station on the Rohrimain line. He was Abdul Wahab, a descendant of the second ....
The Indo-Pak relationship has been so enmeshed in political issues - mostly disputes - that often both countries tend to neglect important developments which facilitate cultural cooperation between them. Foreign ministries in both ...
Having endured the horrid heat of the past several days, few people would believe that Karachi once had pleasant weather conditions, with a breeze sweeping across the city interspersed with drizzles and rains for seven to eight months,...
The Punjab Assembly today unanimously passed the Punjab Official Languages' (Amendment) Bill-2008 making use of Punjabi mandatory in all official functioning ...
Tradition of fiction writing in Punjabi is very old. In 1766, WARIS SHAH wrote the famous QISSA (story) of HEER RANJHA. WARIS SHAH is the greatest fiction writer and prime pride for the essence of all human feelings, sentiments and...
Punjabi tops the list of 240 languages spoken in British schools with it being the first language of 102,570 (1.6 per cent) of the pupils, followed by Urdu for 82,250 ( 1.3 per cent) students. Bengali is the third language in the table, with . ...