For quite some time now reference is being made on both Pakistani and Indian Punjabi Internet networks to a UNESCO report that allegedly predicts that in the next

THERE is worrisome news about the demise of the languages in this era of globalisation. One language seems to be dominating, obliterating languages, dialects and cultures in the

My essay last week "Punjabis without Punjabi" (May 24) evoked very strong emotions – mostly full of enthusiasm to do something to ascribe respectability to the Punjabi language.

An Animal’s Instinct. The mercury had dropped to below zero. It was cold enough to freeze the blood in their veins, hence the people of the colony huddled

Amrita Pritam never woke up on the afternoon of October 31, 2005 and the world is emptier without her musings. She embodied the fullness of poetic expression, creativity

Prof Dr Harkirat Singh was for long haunted by the feeling that justice had not been done to the people of East and West Punjab who lost so

Daljit Nagra's father, Sewa, worked in factories when he came to England from the Punjab, then ran a shop in Sheffield. Nagra is an English teacher in Brent,

IT was a grievous blow to those who strove to build bridges between Pakistan and India to hear that Minoo Bhandara, ex-member of the Pakistan National Assembly, had

Until the rebelling sepoys from Meerut crossed the Yamuna river early in the morning of 11 May 1857, what had happened to disturb the equanimity of Lord Canning

My article 'Street theatre in Delhi' dated Saturday, March 31, 2007, evoked strong emotions in India and Pakistan because the veteran writer Krishan Chander's name had been mentioned

Guru Nanak Dev ji undertook four long journeys to teach the people the right way to live this life and to achieve oneness with the Lord. After reforming

Words are strength. Words are power. Everyone knows but not us. We hate words, we hate our languages and result of our hatred is weak base of the

Amritsar4 June : Amritsar Vikas Manch has demanded a Portal in Punjabi on the GOI site Press Information Bureau. In a letter to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan

AS a child I was used to waking up between 6 and 7am. But on one cold early winter morning of 1948, my mother woke me up at

I am experiencing mixed feelings of immense pleasure and deep sadness in compiling this article. The pleasure is born out of the satisfaction that I am experiencing the

On October 27, 1999 I was returning from Delhi to Stockholm after doing my first round of interviews on the partition of Punjab. When the SAS plane crossed

Glowing tribute to Sharif Kunjahi,…

Sachal Sarmast in English By Shafqat Tanwir Mirza …

Harjap Singh AujlaThere is an old adage that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. No matter how big a person grows, this saying comes

There is a marble plaque built into the wall of the main mosque in the centre of Kaputhala town which reads as follows: "The Moorish Mosque was constructed

MANY of the workers of the Majlis-i-Ahrar were urban-based but had a rural background. They were well aware of the oral traditions of Punjabi poetry and with little

LAHORE: Jandiala Sher Khan, a small town on Hafizabad Road, some 14 kilometres away from Sheikhupura gets over-packed from July 23 to 25 every year when people from

“Bullhe nun parhaya te oh sarangi phar nacheya te ganveya. tenun parhaya te tun ishqiya qisse likhe” (I taught Bullhe Shah and he danced and sang playing violin.

Munir Niazi was the only egoist whose ego irritated no one because it came through with such charm and humour. After Faiz Ahmed Faiz died, someone asked Munir

WE are celebrating the independence days of Pakistan and India in August, but there are bitter memories in the eyes of those who saw the events unfolding at

Scholarly works on the partition of India are legion, but those focusing on the partition of the Punjab are very few. Ian Talbot and Kirpal Singh indeed have

In his seminal work, The Garrison State: The Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947 (New Delhi and London: Sage Publications, 2005) Tan Tai Yong, a prominent

Talat Mahmood was a symbol of finesse in manners, language and singing. During good old days, in the Indo-Gangetic plains of Northern India there were three great centers

Painter and designer, but primarily a sculptor, SHIV SINGH was born in Hoshiarpur in 1938. From 1958 to 1963, he studied in Punjab College of Arts. From 1963

William Hewat McLeod, who has died aged 76, was a scholar whose life's work helped transform the understanding of Sikhism. He produced a remarkable series of publications and

THE fate of the National Education Policy (NEP) continues to hang in the balance. A revised draft was to have been taken up by the cabinet in early

My father Late Sardar Sochet Singh was known for choosing his words very thoughtfully. About the lovers of music, he used to say “The sons and daughters born

Vaars are a valuable part of Punjabi poetry — a folk perception of history and an expression of popular will in celebration or revol…

Click to listen to the interview about Sanjh and Web in Real Audio,…

For quite some time now reference is being made on both Pakistani and Indian Punjabi Internet networks to a UNESCO report that allegedly predicts that in the next

THERE is worrisome news about the demise of the languages in this era of globalisation. One language seems to be dominating, obliterating languages, dialects and cultures in the

My essay last week "Punjabis without Punjabi" (May 24) evoked very strong emotions – mostly full of enthusiasm to do something to ascribe respectability to the Punjabi language.

The mercury had dropped to below zero. It was cold enough to freeze the blood in their veins, hence the people of the colony huddled in the warmth

Amrita Pritam never woke up on the afternoon of October 31, 2005 and the world is emptier without her musings. She embodied the fullness of poetic expression, creativity

Prof Dr Harkirat Singh was for long haunted by the feeling that justice had not been done to the people of East and West Punjab who lost so

Daljit Nagra's father, Sewa, worked in factories when he came to England from the Punjab, then ran a shop in Sheffield. Nagra is an English teacher in Brent,

IT was a grievous blow to those who strove to build bridges between Pakistan and India to hear that Minoo Bhandara, ex-member of the Pakistan National Assembly, had

The patriarchal society of Pukhtuns does not encourage education, particularly in case of females. With conversion from different beliefs to Islam, they developed interest in religious education and

In ancient times Punjab’s eastern boundaries stretched to the western banks of Yamuna where Lord Krishna played his mellifluous flute as his cattle grazed. As we trek further

Harkishan Singh Surjeet (1916 – 2008) For the last two decades, in an era when coalitions have been the norm in Indian national politics, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, who

A little over fifty years ago our Persian teacher, a pious maulana in the old mould, was explaining the exemplary character of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). He quoted

Amongst the treasures in the collection of London’s British Library, which include the Magna Carta and the Lindisfarne Gospels, lie a remarkable collection of modest personal effects that

photo caption : wazir-e-aala punjab s. parkash singh badal shiromani punjabi baal adbi likhari dr.Darshan singh Aasht (punjabi university Patiala) nu state award naal nivaze hoe…naal nazar aa

Recently, Kuldip Nayar, while speaking at a seminar in Amritsar, proposed that the Punjab assemblies of both India and Pakistan pass separate resolutions condemning the barbaric crimes committed

Photos of shaheed Bhagat Singh. …

Punjabi tops the list of 240 languages spoken in British schools with it being the first language of 102,570 (1.6 per cent) of the pupils, followed by Urdu

Tradition of fiction writing in Punjabi is very old. In 1766, WARIS SHAH wrote the famous QISSA (story) of HEER RANJHA. WARIS SHAH is the greatest fiction writer

The Punjab Assembly today unanimously passed the Punjab Official Languages' (Amendment) Bill-2008 making use of Punjabi mandatory in all official functioning …

Having endured the horrid heat of the past several days, few people would believe that Karachi once had pleasant weather conditions, with a breeze sweeping across the city

The Indo-Pak relationship has been so enmeshed in political issues – mostly disputes – that often both countries tend to neglect important developments which facilitate cultural cooperation between

In 1739 a child was born to a respectable and saintly Faruqui family of Daraza, a small village about 32 miles from Khairpur Mirs and a mile from

A yesteryears popular music director of Punjabi films Sardul Singh Kwatra once, who is no more us, once painfully remarked that the Bombay film industry can swing in

I often think that despite their so-called militant nature, the Sikhs (and Punjabis in general) are among the most forgiving communities. Look at the way they do not

The drum beats of Lahore-based Panjpāni group featuring 22 dholis (drummers) of international fame, headed by Pappu Saaen, wove a magic with its rhythmic sounds and left the

Tales of Two Cities sets out to tell that story — of independence, of upheaval and migration and of new beginnings — through the eyes of two observers,