IT is perfectly understandable that Ranjit Singh’s life and achievement have received considerable scholarly attention. His role in Punjab history and achievements fully justify that. However, the man who chiefly...
Punjab is a readymade topic for researchers," quips academician author, a lecturer in development studies, University of Manchester. Documenting the obsession of Punjabis with a male child in a book , ...
At the start of the first world war, Brighton 's Royal Pavilion was made a hospital for Indian troops, an all-but-forgotten chapter in the surreal building's history ....
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was sent to live with a Bedouin family soon after his birth; Bedouins were thought to be the pure speaker of Arabic language, while people living in urban center of Mecca were considered ...
A family friend once posted a video on Facebook: Kids butchering English nursery rhymes. "Punjabi" was implied at the beginning. This reviewer thought of Caliban's tragicomic words: The red plague rid you...
First, the similarities: the same beggars with the same whine; the same rows of torn Hessian tents (housing families) wedged in between and, immediately behind, skyscrapers; the same pavements crowded with vendors displaying ...
The absence of the Punjabi language as a medium of education in the province of Punjab (on the Pakistani side) is a sad reminder of so many things gone wrong in our short history. While India fixed the problem and .....
The three-day ‘International Conference on Sufism & Peace’ organised by Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) concluded here Tuesday after adopting the charter ‘Islamabad Declaration’, calling for concerted . ...
AT the first sight, it indeed appeared a bit intriguing to me to receive an e-mail invitation on 6th February for, 'International Conference of Writers & Intellectuals on "Sufism and Peace to be held in Islamabad from. ...