Mother tongue first
A fascinating report released recently by the British Council Pakistan on the role of language in education in Pakistan, suggests that Pakistani students are best served by education if they are to be instructed in their mother tongues.... People Like Us Across The Border
M. Tahir Speaks to Seasoned Author Chaman Lal Who Has Just Penned Another Book on Bhagat Singh ... Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) was an internationally known Punjabi novelist writing in English. Besides his literary achievements, he also founded the Progressive Writers’ Movement in India along with Munshi Prem Chand,...Poetics of unfinished poem
This is about a poem I have left unfinished. Something happened. Though things do happen when I write---an ant zigzags through the letters, light goes out in the room, thunder bangs against my window---they hardly disrupt me. But what ....Punjab , Punjabi and Punjabiyat
This write-up, based on distinguished Punjabi writer and teacher Professor Pritam Singh’s key-note address to the Fourth Punjabi Conference held in Delhi in 1993, was first published in Sirnawan (June 1993) and Watan ...We've a common past, history, struggles
Fakhar Zaman, noted Punjabi writer-politician from Pakistan, founded World Punjabi Congress (WPC) to bring together two Punjabs and promote the divided region's culture at the height of India-Pakistan,...A vintage voice in Punjabi poetry
THE kindergarten teachers know that poetry precedes in the mysteriously unique process of learning language by the tiny tots. The learned linguists attest that this beautiful phenomena is applicable to the over all evolution of languages ...How he could be acceptable?
PANCHAM… monthly magazine, editors Faaeza Raana and Maqsood Saqib; PP 328; Price Rs50; Published from Suchet Kitab Ghar, Sharaf Mansion, Chowk Ganga Ram, Book Street, Lahore...... Injustice to the Punjabi language
Punjabi is perhaps the only language for which Islamabad is out of bounds, for it is not being taught in any of the educational institutes including the federal colleges and universities (except the Allama Iqbal University where it has. ...Bulleh Shah, Sharifs and Punjabi
The other day, Alhamra Arts Council Chairman Attaul Haq Qasmi invited Nawaz Sharif, ‘the most popular leader of the country’, as writes the chairman, to meet intellectuals, writers, artists (theatre and film) and singers of the city.. ...