Academy of the Punjab in North America
Shahmukhi Poetry Selections
Asif Shahkar
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Second World Punjabi Conference
“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 to July 1st 2003. Building on the success of our First World Punjabi… People Like Us Across The Border
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 dilapidated houses and an abandoned mosque near our house. During our evening outings my father … Shiv Kumar Batalvi (1936-1973)
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 the subject of a large number of books and magazine articles,…Pakistani languages
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, for some reason, it doesn’t. If you were to ask the ….Countering opposition to the Punjabi institute
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 institute for the promotion of Punjabi language and culture …Urdu Punjabi Controversy
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 Academy of Letters, a government funded body,…Alhamra
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 first Punjabi poetess, at Alhamra Hall on Saturday …APNA’s Dinner with Zia Shahid
Alexandria, Virginia, May 13, 2004 -Photo Gallery. OP-ED: In Delhi’s Lahore
A class view of poetry
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 prose, criticism or drama. This book is a collection of newspaper articles written by him in his mid 20s. …