Raja Sadiqulla: A literary painter
Birds, trees, native sounds, mountains and rural landscape are the soul of Raja Sadiqulla’s poems
Mirza Sahibaan: A Poetic Legend
The Punjabi Adabi Board has published an edited version of Qissa SahibaaN which is exceptional in detail and content, and raises some basic questions about editing and editorial responsibilities
Partition of the Punjab (Part 1)
Muslims and Hindus-Sikhs were never fully integrated as one Punjabi nation but they had found a way to co-exist peacefully. Then what really happened?
A case of Punjabi nationalism
Whenever we raise the issue of Punjabi language, Seraiki separatism jumps in to dilute the whole struggle of mother tongue rights. Our friends from South are free to name the language of entire Punjab as Seraiki and help us get it implemented in the province
Saeed Bhutta: People’s Chronicler
Kahãni Quartet has set the stage for Saeed Bhutta to evolve into an authentic cultural historian of the land of five rivers
Nasreen Bhatti: The Rebel Stylist
One of the most gifted poets of our time, Nasreen Anjum Bhatti stands tall among all the women Punjabi poets of her generation
Punjabi: Politics of Division
Punjabi language and literature continued to thrive in spite of all the communal differences and colonial onslaught
Shipwreck of a generation
A recollection of Anwar Chaudhary brings all those wanderers and post-partition Punjabis to mind who grew up with high hopes of a just society
In the name of Punjabiyyat
Every year’s Mother Language Day reminds us of the linguistic brutality and suppression of the state against Punjabi
The feminine metaphor
Recounting the women poets of the undivided Punjab, a poetic history that lies buried under male monopoly