How Not to Dance Bhangra
Bhangra isn’t a folk dance, but a spicy mixture of nine Punjabi folk dances – Dhamāl, Gidha, Jalli, Jhummar, Luddi, Pathania, Phumania, Sammi and Sialkoti bhangra ... Bhangra as an art is flourishing in india
“Bhangra” is basically a folk dance form born out of happiness, ecstacy and bliss. What could be a happier occasion for a peasant, who’s hard toil of six wintry months is going to be rewarded? Wheat is sown generally in the month ... As a foreign refuge closes in Kabul
When I read in the paper last week that the United Nations guesthouse in Kabul would soon be closing its doors forever, I felt a twinge of regret and nostalgia for a time and place that would never come again, where a foreign do-gooder,...Pash’s Afterlife Re-reading Pash in Our World
Pash would have been 58 now if, twenty years ago, his life had not been violently cut short by those who found his pen far deadlier than their automatic guns. The warrior-poet that he was, he would not have allowed his pen to. ....Mian Muhamamd Bakhsh's Selected Verses
Mian Muhamamd Bakhsh's Selected Verses in English ...Surinder Kaur: A Life Well Sung
This story was written after a series of interviews with Surinder Kaur in April, 2000, in her North Riveira home in Delhi before she moved to Panchkula near Chandigarh to live with her daughter,...‘Golmolization’ of the Punjabi Ethos
The Punjabi diaspora has almost colonized the representational space of Punjabi film in recent years. The reasons are obvious. Historically poor in resources, the Punjabi film has found a redeemer in the NR(P)I, the Non-Resident ...Maharaja Ranjit Singh
During my visit to Pakistan in 1983 I was pleasantly surprised to find that the people there regarded Ranjit Singh as "their" king in whose reign Punjab regained its lost glory. The guide at Lahore Fort described Ranjit Singh as the..... HUSBAND JOGINDER SINGH SODHI
There is an old English adage “Behind the success of every man, there is a woman”. It is of course universally accepted that a woman can be the maker of the brilliant careers of many a man. Its reverse is also true, especially. ...Shades Of The Old Punjab
Safe Custody Joga Singh with a maulvi outside the mosque in Sarwarpur that his brother Sajjan helped reconstruct . ...