mushtaq-soofi
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
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
