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Certain misconceptions gain currency and with the passage of time for the fact of being reiterated ad nauseam they...
Published 15 Apr, 2024 07:16am
Poet Shah Muhammad (1782-1862) composed his famous lay about the First Anglo-Sikh War. After the Second Anglo-Sikh...
Published 01 Apr, 2024 07:03am
Chief Minister of Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif seems to have been well-advised on the question of language in the...
Published 25 Mar, 2024 05:49am
Mela Chiraghan, (the festival of lights) is the festival of Lahore held every year to pay tribute to poet and Saint...
Published 04 Mar, 2024 06:57am
IT was interventions from outside forces that snatched their mother language from Punjabis. It wasn’t that Punjabi...
Published 26 Feb, 2024 08:05am
Professor Naveed Shahzad is a well-known poet, studious scholar and good critic. He has a score of publications to...
Updated 19 Feb, 2024 07:30am
Lying is as old as language itself. It cannot exist without language like so many other things. Simply put, it’s ...
Published 12 Feb, 2024 07:10am
Animals have no sense of history. Memory inseparably linked with history is generally for them what has happened...
Published 15 Jan, 2024 07:00am
Rebellion against the oppression that springs from an established order is nothing unusual. Its success is. ...
Published 01 Jan, 2024 06:48am
We humans have weird habits. We respect what we fear. What is dreadful earns our admiration. This is especially true...
Published 25 Dec, 2023 05:40am
Ahmed Saleem who wore many hats finally bowed out last week at 78. Long life? Definitely not! “The world (for an...
Published 18 Dec, 2023 07:12am
A western scholar said in the last century that in the East nobody had freedom except poets. They could get away...
Published 11 Dec, 2023 07:08am
We have become so ‘human’ that we tend to forget what hitherto have been with us in our evolutionary development;...
Published 04 Dec, 2023 07:19am
Film-making in the northern part of the subcontinent has been/is the story of three great cultural cities; Kolkata,...
Published 27 Nov, 2023 06:42am
Violence is in some form an inescapable part of our everyday life. Its unstoppable repeated occurrence has made it...
Published 20 Nov, 2023 07:03am
We are in the habit of doing things of daily life in the wrong way, the way that causes at best inconvenience and at...
Updated 13 Nov, 2023 09:25am
Is aggression innate characteristic of living creatures? Is it possible to impose restraints on it? Can we stop...
Published 30 Oct, 2023 07:06am
Everybody has stories but a few among us have stories worth narrating. Everybody can narrate stories but a few have...
Published 23 Oct, 2023 07:01am
Shah Husain and Bulleh Shah are hauntingly fascinating characters of Punjab’s classical literature who have...
Updated 09 Oct, 2023 08:32am
It’s not about new vistas or anything grand. It’s about things mundane, rather boring which we see repeated ad...
Updated 02 Oct, 2023 08:13am
