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Thirty years ago, when I came to America, there was no Asian Indian television channel in this country. There of course were some local Indian TV programmes in New York. One was known as ITV, one was Asian Variety Show,... The idea of Punjabiyat
For a community that has experienced such fragmentation through the centuries, the Punjabi identity today is engaged in a remarkably active attempt at consolidation. ... Love, Longing and Ludhiana
Goddess Saraswati seems to be looking Ludhiana ’s way this year with the prestigious Saraswati Sammān (awarded annually for outstanding Indian works of prose or poetry) going to a poet of that city, Surjit Patar. ,...Balraj Sahni the great Punjabi
Balraj Sahni was a highly talented, sincere and serious actor. He was an actor with the talent for stealing the show and capturing the maximum applause. He was born on May 1, 1913, in Rawalpindi . His father, Harbans Lal Sahni ....Literacy rate in Punjab
THIS is apropos of the report ( March 22) that instead of moving towards achieving the envisaged target of 100 per cent literacy rate by 2015 Punjab has taken a reverse gear. ...Shafqat Tanvir Mirza Sahab is no more
Lahore:Tuesday,Nov 20,2012.Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (STM)a prominent Pakistani Punjabi writer commonly known as encyclopedia of Punjab and One of the most eminent columnist of Pakistan’s leading English newspaper,...The Punjab: Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed
Historians, political scientists, propagandists, politicians, poets and writers have for decades churned out books about the partition of the Punjab in 1947. This volume is the latest. ...Reality is fiction for this writer
THE first Dalit hero in Punjabi fiction stepped out of the pages of Gurdial Singh's first novel Marhi da Diva (translated into English as The Last Flicker) in the 1960s and walked straight into the hearts..... Renaming of chowk after Bhagat Singh
Lahore:he city government’s plan to rename Fawara Chowk in Shadman after Bhagat Singh, the pre-Independence Indian freedom fighter, has been put on hold after it drew objections from. ...PTI to introduce mother tongue
The announcement was made by Imran Khan chief of Tehreek-e-Insaaf Pakistan while responding to a question put forward by Nazeer Kahut convener Punjabi Language Movement-Pakistan that interrupted his speech.. ...