Mushtaq Soofi
Which is older, poetry or storytelling? It seems both are equally old as there is no evidential certainty as to ...
Published 08 Apr, 2024 07:03am
A sage from our subcontinent says: “There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.” Does it seem...
Published 18 Mar, 2024 07:44am
Allow me to share what I saw last week which was, by the way, nothing unusual. But it’s worth reporting. I drove...
Updated 11 Mar, 2024 09:16am
Neelum Ahmad Basheer is a well-known Urdu writer and has a visible presence on the literary landscape. She has a...
Published 05 Feb, 2024 07:59am
Most of the people who are in their 60s and 70s fondly reminisce about the times of their childhood and youth, the...
Published 29 Jan, 2024 07:30am
That you cannot step into a river twice is well known. It simply means that conditions of life constantly undergo...
Published 22 Jan, 2024 07:00am
They have killed their language. Not just that. They celebrate it to show unabashedly to the world that it rightly...
Published 08 Jan, 2024 07:10am
Modern notion of nationalism or nation state came to the colonies with the arrival of Western occupation forces...
Published 06 Nov, 2023 05:18am
‘Writing is not something natural’ may seem a weird assertion or a sweeping statement. But it’s not. Writing ...
Published 16 Oct, 2023 06:59am
LET me trot out an old cliché: people do not leave their homes unless they feel compelled to do so. But there can ...
Published 31 Jul, 2023 09:18am
Language though not purely natural seems to be natural like eating and breathing in the normal course of things. But...
Updated 17 Apr, 2023 08:54am
Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed is a reputable historian and scholar who has done some serious research on the history of the...
Published 06 Mar, 2023 07:11am
When our planet was sparsely populated and human beings were in small number they faced a dreadful prospect of...
Published 12 Dec, 2022 07:11am
It’s a joy to see that number of women composing poetry in Punjabi language has been increasing steadily. The...
Updated 05 Dec, 2022 08:56am
In our culture we are quite familiar with two types of crowds–religious and political. Religious crowds are both...
Published 07 Nov, 2022 07:26am
“I sit by the roadside / The driver changes the wheel / I do not like the place I have come from / I do not like...
Published 31 Oct, 2022 03:41am
Contemporary Punjabi poetry has been struggling to deal with what it inherited; literary tradition. The literary...
Published 24 Oct, 2022 07:08am
“We sat, an easy generation, in houses held to be indestructible (Thus we built those tall boxes on the island of...
Published 03 Oct, 2022 06:46am
It’s abundantly clear that we as a poor underdeveloped country can hardly do anything to stop or slow the process...
Published 26 Sep, 2022 04:31am
If you are this side of the border in Punjab and want to find what for example the great epic Mahabharata says about...
Published 04 Jul, 2022 07:18am
