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The life and poetry of the 16th century poet Shah Husain aka Madho Lal Husain have stirred the people’s ...
Published 23 Dec, 2024 06:51am
In our country, regardless of the political system whether it’s a dictatorship or quasi democracy, laws are made ...
Published 16 Dec, 2024 07:22am
Soon we are going to be crushed under our own weight; our population will be unmanageable in a few decades from now...
Published 09 Dec, 2024 06:21am
‘Punjabi Language, Literature and Legends’ is Safir Rammah’s book published by Kitab Trinjan. He is “a...
Published 02 Dec, 2024 05:37am
Guru Nanak (1469-1539) is undoubtedly the most influential Punjabi born in the last 1,000 years. The era he was born...
Published 25 Nov, 2024 07:48am
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
