Mushtaq Soofi

One may start off by making a sweeping statement; anybody who is somebody in the country is in some way an overt or... Published 11 Oct, 2021 07:07am

We faced threat of extinction when we were in primeval forests because we were few. Now we face the prospect of... Published 04 Oct, 2021 07:21am

The heroic figures who resisted the British colonial onslaught and rose against occupation force have been sidelined... Published 27 Sep, 2021 07:17am

Generally, a limited number of books on grammatical structure of a language are found because of the very nature of... Published 20 Sep, 2021 07:02am

Wazir Afzal after the late Saleem Iqbal was the one who knew Punjab’s folk music like the back of his hand. He was... Published 13 Sep, 2021 06:30am

Good women are dead women, at least metaphorically, in a society which upholds the view that human agency is gender... Published 30 Aug, 2021 07:02am

Amrita Pritam, we all know, is one of our most celebrated writers of 20th century. She can be counted among few ... Published 23 Aug, 2021 06:46am

Here is the last part of the story of Mian Kamal Din (1917-2000), Four Wise Men, that was left unfinished last ... Published 16 Aug, 2021 06:51am

Mian Kamal Din (1917-2000) was the foremost storyteller of the 20th century. He had the sweep of a historian and... Published 09 Aug, 2021 08:34am

Sita (which literally means the furrow) is actually a goddess earth in Valmiki’s Ramayana who appears as a woman.... Published 02 Aug, 2021 07:00am

One can make a sweeping statement: the older a civilisation gets the more hypocritical it becomes. Diverse societies... Published 26 Jul, 2021 07:00am

Metropolitan cities lead when it comes to research because they have the wherewithal needed to do research on any... Published 19 Jul, 2021 07:11am

Parents feel elated when their child starts asking; what’s this? What’s that? Question matters more than the... Published 12 Jul, 2021 06:30am

Loonaywala brought us love songs and what could be a better gift than singing of love for a society with few reasons to be happy? Published 05 Jul, 2021 11:56am

Folk music seems to be an essential element of our individual and collective make-up. Once music composer Ustad ... Published 05 Jul, 2021 07:06am

In the ancient time when we were Sapta Sindhu (land of seven rivers) we had floating cities. Cities, ancient and... Published 07 Jun, 2021 07:04am

“Our thoughts bring us to diverse callings, setting people apart: the carpenter seeks what is broken, the ... Published 31 May, 2021 07:43am

Our people know each and everything under the sun. They even know what they aren’t supposed to know. They can tell... Published 10 May, 2021 06:39am

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them”, declares Nietzsche in his ‘Thus spoke Zarathustra’. If we follow Published 03 May, 2021 05:45am

It’s believed, not without reason, that we humans are part of animal kingdom. If we are part of animal kingdom it... Published 26 Apr, 2021 07:00am