mushtaq-soofi
It’s no mean feat to get recognised as a poet of substance when one chooses to express oneself in a modern genre ...
Published 18 Nov, 2024 08:11am
Recently Mr. Amjad Ali Javed, a member from district Toba Tek Singh, moved a resolution in the Punjab Assembly that...
Published 11 Nov, 2024 06:12am
‘One who hasn’t seen Lahore isn’t born yet’ was an old saying about Lahore. The new one is: ‘one who is...
Published 04 Nov, 2024 07:12am
Some scholars assert, perhaps rightly, that the anthropocene (the age marked by increased human activity that ...
Published 28 Oct, 2024 07:15am
When you return home from the West what strikes you most is the huge number of pharmacies – locally called medical...
Published 21 Oct, 2024 07:10am
Punjab was divided along religious lines in the wake of India’s Partition which exposed all political actors; the...
Published 14 Oct, 2024 07:34am
Why does one feel dissatisfied with things as they are? Why do things look rosier when looked at from a distance? ...
Published 07 Oct, 2024 07:20am
As a young man I accompanied by my friend Abid Ameeq, a fearless intellectual and refined poet, went to see Hasan...
Published 30 Sep, 2024 07:13am
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy its own way,” writes Tolstoy at the start of his...
Updated 23 Sep, 2024 11:14am
Fritjof Capra writes in his book Uncommon Wisdom that nature that surrounds us is an intricate network of...
Published 09 Sep, 2024 05:50am
Racism has a long history. It has its roots in prehistory, one may assert. Visceral fear that whoever is not one of...
Published 26 Aug, 2024 06:46am
Classical musicians especially those of ‘Gharanas (custodians of classical music) cannot be fully absolved of the...
Published 19 Aug, 2024 07:25am
Our classical music based on Raga structures is almost dead in our society but it flourishes in our neighbourhood. ...
Published 12 Aug, 2024 07:06am
Can those who are in their seventies or late sixties especially the ones from the countryside forget their ...
Published 05 Aug, 2024 05:28am
The function of a university in modern times is threefold: to instruct, to do serious research, and to help public...
Published 29 Jul, 2024 06:20am
In order to have some understanding of the role the Bar region - area between river Sutlej and Jhelum - played in...
Published 08 Jul, 2024 08:20am
The 19th century has crucial importance in the history of Punjab. In the very beginning of it Sikh rule was...
Published 01 Jul, 2024 06:58am
Remember ‘Imagine’? John Lennon wrote and sang this song in 1971 when Vietnam War was raging. The widespread...
Published 24 Jun, 2024 07:18am
On wonders why the civilisation that created highly advanced cities like Harappa, Mohenjo Daro, Lothal, Rakhigarh,...
Published 17 Jun, 2024 05:31am
We humans learn language spoken around us in our early years. We have been living with language for so long that...
Published 03 Jun, 2024 07:07am
