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Bhagat Singh Day in Pakistan

Yesterday, at Shadman Chouck Lahore, the place where Bhagat Singh was hanged on 23 March 1931, several groups including Labour Party Pakistan organised a vigil. There were a good numbers of political activists present on the occasion...

Bhagat Singh Remembered in Trinidad &Tobago

Trinidad, Congregation of only Gurdwara ( Sikh Temple) in Trinidad located at Tuna Puna on Sunday, 20th March was dedicated to memory of Bhagat Singh, who was martyred by British colonialists 80 years ago on 23rd March 1931. ...

A scam to remember

Even as frantic preparations are on these days to make the martyrdom day function of Shaheed Bhagat Singh being held at his ancestral village Khatkar Kalan on Wednesday, a ‘historic’ event, a probe by the Vigilance,...

Two Poets of the 19th Century

DHOLIAN DA BADSHAH research and compilation by Muhammad Azhar Virk; pp 128, Price Rs500 (hb); Publishers Ravi Kitab Ghar, Shah Kot district Nankana Sahib, (Punjab). ....

GOTHIC REVIVAL AT FARIDKOT

The architectural style that flourished in Western Europe from circa 1140 to around the middle of the 16th century goes by the label "Gothic architecture". This term was not coined by the builders themselves but by ...

The grain of daily life

WHATEVER little attention has gone to the art of the Punjab Plains in the 19th century", I once wrote, it has "tended to focus on what was happening at the Lahore Court". There were reasons for this. The glitter,,...

Punjabi scholar Dr Akhtar Hussain passes away

Dr Akhtar Hussain was born on May 3, 1937, in a small village in district Dir and Pashto was his mother tongue. But once he shifted to Lahore, he took on Punjabi and excelled in it to an extent that he did his doctorate in the language ...

PM`s statement on Seraiki province perturbs many

LAHORE, March 14: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s announcement of including Seraiki province’s demand in the PPP’s manifesto for the next general elections has perturbed those who...

Mind your language

What's the German for marketing? Das Marketing! No wonder some purists fear anglicisms could make German a peripheral language. ...

Balbir Madhopuri’s Changiya Rukh

The notion that caste is not on par with race appears to be untenable. In fact caste based discrimination is one of the worst forms of racism because it is practiced against one‟s own countrymen. Like race, it is determined by. ...