Nain Sukh’s Timeless Lahore
The novel Madho Lal Hussain: Lahore di Vel represents the best of what contemporary Punjabi literature has to offer and Mahmood Awan writes about it in the Dawn
The novel Madho Lal Hussain: Lahore di Vel represents the best of what contemporary Punjabi literature has to offer and Mahmood Awan writes about it in the Dawn
Romila Thapar debunks the socially-accepted belief that Muslims and Hindus were always antagonistic to each other, beginning with the Muslim arrival in India
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?
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
Punjabi language and literature continued to thrive in spite of all the communal differences and colonial onslaught
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
Every year’s Mother Language Day reminds us of the linguistic brutality and suppression of the state against Punjabi
Mahmood Awan writes about the tragedy of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre and how poetry can play its role in addressing the grief
An account of the Punjabi soldiers who became the cannon fodder of the colonising power in World War I, and the mournful songs and literature this episode in history generated in its wake
The language of Baba Farid, Guru Nanak and Damodar Dãs has something special about it. In the darkest of times and against all odds, it has had the resilience to survive