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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
Punjabi writers and scholars keep research at bay as if it’s a contagion that would incapacitate them mentally....
Published 27 May, 2024 06:05am
‘I have to add my feeble voice to the noise of the world,’ says late Majeed Amjad in one of his poems. The...
Published 20 May, 2024 07:11am
It is generally accepted that Damodar Das Gulati (16th century) was a pioneer in ‘Qissakaari’, the genre of...
Published 06 May, 2024 06:05am
Why is it so that whenever Punjab police are humiliated for reasons right or wrong people feel elated? Why do they...
Published 22 Apr, 2024 07:19am
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