The life and poetry of Shiv Kumar Batalvi – the most popular modern Punjabi poet and the youngest recipient of Shahitya Academy Award in 1967 – has been…
It was mid-fifties and I was a growing child in the streets of Amritsar. The area around where we lived was very thinly populated and there were many…
“Nation Building in the 21st Century and the Punjabi Nation”, a four-day conference, takes place at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, B.C. from June 28…
There is a pristine naivete about Punjabi poetry that makes it at once endearing and coy. Like the land of the five rivers itself, the language also greets…
A RECIPIENT of the Jnanpith Award for 1999, Gurdial Singh, a contemporary Punjabi novelist, is a storyteller par excellence. Story telling is, indeed, not just an art or…
Characterisation of 'woman' in Punjabi literature is unique in more than one ways. For instance, she is portrayed as the lover rather than the beloved — the ma'shooq…
Internationally renowned Punjabi folk singer Surjeet Bindrakhia (43) died in his sleep at his residence here early this morning. The singer was suffering from a health problem for…
If one goes to an elitist English-medium school and meets the principal, or whoever condescends to grant an audience, one finds out that one's mother tongue – assuming…
I consider Najam Hussain Syed's writings on literary criticism to be his greatest contribution to Punjabi literature though his literary work, comprising 22 books, covers other subjects like…
APNA firmly believes that the medium of education in West Punjab's government schools must be immediatly changed from Urdu to Punjabi. Here are some of the reasons why…
The colonial privileging of Urdu reinforced by Pakistan's nation building demands has resulted in the downgrading of the Punjabi language. Although it is the mother tongue of the…
Bulleh Shah (1680-1758) and Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) shared the same time and space – eighteenth century Northern India – and were amongst the major poets of their…
Whatever little Punjabi poetry Faiz wrote proves the point that the real concerns of the masses can be conveyed only in their mother tongue Faiz is and remains…
Punjabi is the mother tongue of the majority of people in Pakistan. According to 1981 census, the last census for which the figures are available, Punjabi (including Saraiki,…
The activists of the Punjabi movement want Punjabi to be used for educational, administrative, and judicial purposes in the province of the Punjab. As the Punjab is the…
2002 was another year of continued progress for Punjabi language and literature. While in Pakistan, the large number of Punjabi writers, activists, research scholars and various forms of…
The Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, and Academy of the Punjab in North America, January 11, 2003. 1.Program Notes. 2.Opening Remarks – Safir Rammah. 3.Article – Washington…
Ustad Daman was last seen on the funeral of Faiz Ahmad Faiz on November 20, 1984. He appeared terribly ill but he had managed to make it to…
Renowned Punjabi dramatist and short story writer, Balwant Gargi, was cremated here today. He died in Mumbai last night after prolonged illness. He was 87. He left behind…
Lyrical sweetness – the magic touchstone of poetry – found a permanent home in Punjabi poetry more than a millennium ago. While Baba Farid (1173-1266) wrote most of…
A special meeting of the Sarv Bharati Likhari Sabha- International was held on 6th October, in the Committee Room of the Punjabi Bhawan, Ludhiana. Prominent amongst a large…
The rise of militant Islamic fundamentalism in conjunction with geo-political conflicts in different parts of the non-Western world has become the major focus of media and scholarly comment…
Please accept our congratulations on your election to the exalted office of member Punjab assembly. We earnestly hope you will measure up to the expectations of the people…
In the new Lahore lies buried Shah Husain and with him lies buried the myth of Lal Husain. Still, at least once a year we can hear the…
What was the language of the Indus Valley, present-day Pakistan, in the pre-Islamic period? Did this region have one language or many? Did it have one language family…
ohe partition of British India was really the partition of the Punjab. No wonder a poet from Jhang, in the heart of Pakistani Punjab, bemoans the loss of…
December 9, 1913 marks the date when the first Punjabi publication made its debut in North America. That day the Ghadar Party in California, newly formed by the…
The Partition of British India in 1947, which created the two independent states of India and Pakistan, was followed by one of the cruellest and bloodiest migrations and…
Probably, it was the first time in the history of Punjab assembly, that a member of provincial assembly from Rai Wind, Mr. Abdul Rashid Bhatti, opened his speech…
The 21st of February is celebrated as World Mother Tongue Day. The UNESCO, which hopes to make people conscious of the importance of the mother tongue, declares in…
February 20, 2004: Sohan Sarinder Singh Sangha was inspired partly by his family's history. A member of a Sikh pioneer family who recorded the colourful history of the…
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…
In the beginning was the stone. And man stood before the stone possessed by the need to live and the urge to be. In the end too, is…
In the new Lahore lies buried Shah Husain and with him lies buried the myth of Lal Husain. Still, at least once a year we can hear the…
What was the language of the Indus Valley, present-day Pakistan, in the pre-Islamic period? Did this region have one language or many? Did it have one language family…
ohe partition of British India was really the partition of the Punjab. No wonder a poet from Jhang, in the heart of Pakistani Punjab, bemoans the loss of…
December 9, 1913 marks the date when the first Punjabi publication made its debut in North America. That day the Ghadar Party in California, newly formed by the…
The Partition of British India in 1947, which created the two independent states of India and Pakistan, was followed by one of the cruellest and bloodiest migrations and…
Probably, it was the first time in the history of Punjab assembly, that a member of provincial assembly from Rai Wind, Mr. Abdul Rashid Bhatti, opened his speech…
The 21st of February is celebrated as World Mother Tongue Day. The UNESCO, which hopes to make people conscious of the importance of the mother tongue, declares in…
February 20, 2004: Sohan Sarinder Singh Sangha was inspired partly by his family's history. A member of a Sikh pioneer family who recorded the colourful history of the…
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…