Pakistan ruined by language myth
J yoti Nooran is amazing. What a singing voice she is blessed with. How lovely she appears when she sings. There is her great grandmother Nooran in her genes. Jyoti has two things which none of her contemporaries has - the clarity of diction.... A Poet’s Touching Epitaph
Once on a visit to Pakistan, I went to see its largest bookstore, Ferozesons, in Lahore. It was a large hall crammed with books in Urdu and English. I bought a compilation of poems of Ustad Daman — Punjabi verses written in... Memoirs: Guru di nagri, Ambarsar
was in born in 1926 in Amritsar (Ambarsar in common Punjabi), but my father who was an engineer in the M.E.S. was posted in Bareilly (U.P.) and I spent the first nine years of my life there. In 1935, my father, who had risen from the. ,...150th Birth Anniversary Bhai Kahan Singh
Administrator, diplomat, encyclopaedist, historian, hunter, interpreter of Sikh scriptures, tennis player, tutor to an heir apparent and scholar, Bhai Kahan Singh of Nabha was, indeed, a Renaissance man, who has left a lasting impact. ....Indian Govt to honour man
Little is known of Pandit K. Santanam, the man who first bared the horrors of Jallianwala Bagh massacre to the world and who, despite being a conservative Iyengar from Tamil Nadu, left his native place and made ...Reunion: Stranger than fiction
It was the year 1956. A year earlier I had been released from prison after over four years of detention in connection with the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case. I had joined the University Law College, Lahore and lived with my elder sister at Masson Road,...When press conferences abruptly end
It has always been observed that any particular pinching question which exposes the political party of the minister or the leader, addressing a press conference is either ignored or there comes immediate the end of the press conference or whatever the function may ...What about children`s literature?
DAWN in its editorial on Oct 6 commented on children’s literature that “while literature was reasonably available in Urdu and even English by Pakistani authors. In neither language, let alone the provincial languages are there enough..... Shammi Kapoor obituary
The dashing, debonair Indian actor Shammi Kapoor, who has died of renal failure aged 79, changed the face of Bollywood cinema with his first hit film, Tumsa Nahin Dekha (Never Seen Anyone Like You, 1957).The rock'n'roll-inspired.. ...Miss Pooja may break Surinder Kaur’s record
WE were born with Punjabi duets heard during social and family occasions such as weddings, engagement ceremonies, births of children etc. In a typical rural setting, two sisters or friends used to sing duets, one used to play. ...