Kitab Trinjan-That one-room shop
The story began in Mian Chambers, 3 – Temple Road, Lahore in February 1998, when I was searching for books by Najm Hosain Syed.
Sajjan for everyone
It seems unreal — a legend, a folklore or storyline of a cliff-hanger — that a Lucknow-born, Urdu speaking renaissance man leads a group of passionate volunteers to launch their first ever mother language Punjabi newspaper in the Farsi script. It was the...
Abid Ameeq: A Symbol of Freedom
Ameeq is a teacher, activist, critic and essayist. He is one of the most original and low profile writers of Punjabi — a master. But for me he has always been a poet foremost as that’s how I came to know him.
Punjabi Language in exile
A language can survive in exile. But what about a language that has been exiled by its own people and by its own state?
Stories that never end
Zubair Ahmad is a poet, essayist, critic and short story writer. He is one of the most credible names of contemporary Punjabi fiction on both sides of the border
My Subject of War
When so much is happening around, poetry can’t stay on the sidelines. It has to confront not only its own lyrical sweetness but the standard tools of writing
Idris Babur’s Yunhi
A set of metaphors and acute expressions that are fresh and contemporary
BBC Urdu Review of Veeni Likhia Din
انور سِن رائے بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی محفوظ مستقبل کی قیمت نام کتاب: وینی لکھیا دن شاعر: محمود اعوان صفحات: 144 قیمت: 200 روپے ناشر: سانجھ پبلیکیشنز، 2/46 مزنگ روڈ، لاہور sanjhpks@gmail.com محمود اعوان کا نام یقینی طور پنجابی پڑھنے والوں کے لیے بھی کم و بیش اتنا...