For anyone seeking to understand Punjab’s history, reading just two pages….. ………
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Who Is Afraid Of History In Pakistani Universities? The emergence of the Lyallpur Young Historians Club (LYHC) in 2019-2020 felt like .. . .. …
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The recent demise of eminent Punjabi poet Surjit Patar (Jan 14, 1945-May 11, 2024) …… Ganga Ram: The Father of Modern Lahore The Lahore as we all know
BaraMah, a Punjabi literary magazine, has just released its latest edition. ……..
Punjabi poet Padma Shri Surjit Patar passes away at 79; CM Bhagwant Mann says, ‘proud son of Punjabi language’ Surjit Patar, a renowned Punjabi poet and Padma Shri
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Those interested in learning about the evolution of Pakistan’s political culture cannot overlook .. . .. …
Farmers all across India protested at the district headquarters yesterday against the betrayal by the …..
I went to meet Professor Ahmed Saleem at his home library. His house is in Judicial Town near …… Reflections Farmers all across India protested at the district
Senior Punjabi and Urdu writer, poet, researcher, Left wing activist Ahmad Saleem. ……..
When M.S. Swaminathan died on 28 September at the age of 98, ………
Let us take you down to Karachi's Qawwal Gali, where live direct descendants. …
This doha, a traditional form of short symmetrical poem…..
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There is a saying in Punjabi which goes something like this: “Until one has seen Lahore, …..
A journey through Punjab’s literary revolution …… FICTION: THE ESSENCE OF LAHORE There is a saying in Punjabi which goes something like this: “Until one has seen Lahore,
Shiv Kumar Batalvi passed away aged 36 in 1973, but the Punjabi poet of searing. ……..
Javed Boota has passed away in Chantilly, Virginia after a prolonged illness. He won the Dhahan ………
Nain Sukh’s latest novel explores the melancholy of modern life in the absence of nostalgia.,…
LAHORE: Political scientist and historian Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed has termed the Punjabi bureaucracy ). …
Translation of Punjabi book and ‘Punglish’ LAHORE: Punjabi writer Nain Sukh said that after the Partition when Urdu was being promoted along with English…… ………
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Abid Ameeq was an enigma for many of his admirers as well as sceptics. . .. …
There used to be a taunt that there is no significant fiction, especially novel, written in Punjabi language …..
Nadir Ali (1936-1920) Nadir Ali, Punjabi short story writer, poet and activist for Punjabi language rights,…… The pandemic and Punjab – through Nain Sukh’s novel There used to
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Punjabi Sufi poet Qaswar Mubarak Butt leaves world to complete ‘poem of life’ LAHORE – A unique and matchless voice of Punjabi poetry, Qaswar Mubarak Butt has left
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Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB). …
The current Punjab, despite its small size of being the 1.54 per cent geographical area of India, …… ………
LAHORE: “When I write short stories, I keep all the elements of fiction in mind. . …..
You are better placed to compose poetry if you happen to know common ailments as well as maladies that afflict the soul. . .. …
With the passing decades, nationalist fervor and mutual suspicion have largely replaced memories of mass death and displacement during the chaotic cleaving of Pakistan from India …..
The reports that appeared in The Tribune on March 18 & Aug 2, 1947…… 75 Years Later, the Fading Ghosts of India’s Bloody Partition With the passing decades,
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Communist leader Teja Singh Sutantar was a master of disguise, leading ……… ….
LAHORE: The National College of Arts (NCA) will soon launch a website of its archives, .,…
Last month, Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari . …
The role of civil society in building bridges between India and Pakistan …… ………
ON May 31, 2000, death laid its icy hands on yet another singer, whose contributions to Pakistani music, especially its folk tradition, had been widely acknowledged. Bhatti, who…
No less a person than the doyen of Pakistani letters, Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, himself has raised his voice in support of Punjabi language. In one of his recent…
Waris Shah is much misquoted and misunderstood as a poet but the scholarship needed to separate chaff from his poetic grain may not be in the offing at…
When I went to attend a function on Punjabi poetry arranged by the Lahore Arts Forum in the Model Town Library last Thursday, I prayed to God that…
Punjabi poetry of pre-modern times has widely attracted the lovers of poetry in South Asia as well as the countries abroad. Its sufism has been its much distinctive…
THE Indian government has refused to permit the Sikhs to visit Pakistan to celebrate traditional Besakhi festival in Lahore where their only political hero, Ranjit Singh, became Maharaja…
No one can deny the role of the native language in the spread of education and information in a society. It is one's native language, or mother tongue,…
While surveying Punjabi publications of the year 2003, it is hard to ignore a noticeable positive change in the prevailing adverse environment for Punjabi language in Pakistan. Since…
Punjabi is classed as one of the Indo-Aryan languages. Three theories are commonly held about the Indo-Aryan languages: 1) Sanskrit developed from the Vedic language, and its rules…
Huma Safdar, an art teacher in Lahore Grammar School, has put her skills and beliefs into staging fine Punjabi plays with high school girls. She has inculcated a…
There is some of Najm Hosain Syed's work, where you can tell the earlier writings from his later ones, at least in his poetry, but not in his…
As I boarded the plane for Stockholm, I felt that my faith in India-Pakistan peace, friendship and solidarity was not mere wishful thinking. It was possible and we…
LAHORE: All Punjab Performing Artists Network (APPAN), the theatre practitioners from Pakistani as well as Indian Punjab, presented their first production Piro Preman, a real story of the…
During the last couple of months, a few articles have appeared in Pakistani Urdu daily's as part of a campaign led by Fateh Muhammad Malik, Chairman of Pakistan…
LAHORE, June 6: Tactfully handling opposition within the official circles and the cabinet has been the major task for the government for realizing its dream of creating an…
The federal government in Pakistan should be striving to promote the various languages of Pakistan (sometimes called the regional languages, although the speakers don't like the expression) but,…