Language and thinking
EDUCATION is a much talked about issue in today’s Pakistan. Unfortunately it provokes little serious thinking and even less action. I keep hoping that this talk will turn into action sooner than later. Until that happens we... Ustad Fate Ali Khan
Ustad Fate Ali Khan ... Roop Dhillon's New Novel, "O"
I have read and reviewed his work before, and have to admit I was not impressed until I read The Hornet (Bharind) a couple of years ago. ,...Sundar Mundariyya
The 16th day of April 1853 is special in the Indian history. The day was a public holiday. At 3:30 pm, as the 21 guns roared together, the first train carrying Lady Falkland, wife of Governor of Bombay, along with 400 ....Punjabi literary traditions in colonial Punjab
The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab has been written by Farina Mir who teaches History at the University of Michigan. Trained as a historian of colonial and postcolonial ...Irish Scholar who introduced Sikhi
For as long as there is anyone wanting to explore the Sikh faith through the medium of the English language, Macauliffe's name will live; so will his six precious volumes dedicated to the Sikh religion,...100th Session of Great Sufi Wisdom
ISLAMABAD, January 12: Sufi Sangat of twin cities, a group of devotees who wish to promote the great Sufi thoughts of the Sufi poets of the Punjab, in collaboration with National Press Club and Payaam Trust organized the ...Another People:
“A LOVER, A POET AND A MADMAN, all in one,” writes poet and journalist Nirupama Dutt in her introduction to Poet of the Revolution, her recently-published English translation of Dastãn (1998)...... CULTURAL ROOTS OF ART
The Indus Valley, our home, has a living history since the end of the last Ice Age and the beginning of Human Civilisation. As the Ice receded and the Earth warmed, about 20,000 years ago, pockets of varying climates. ...Salam – The forgotten genius
On a hot summer afternoon in 1940, a boy of 14 was rushing on his bicycle to his hometown near Jhang, part of present day Pakistan. He covered his head under a heavy turban because the barber. ...