Waris Shah:The Fearless Poet (Part 2)
Mahmood Awan continues his exploration of Heer Waris Shah and delves into the verses which were considered too erotic and were not published by some editors. Part 2 of the 250th Year of Heer Waris Shah.
250 Years of Heer Waris Shah (Part 1)
Mahmood Awan explains the magic of the epic of Heer Waris Shah as written and rewritten for over two centuries and how some poets manufactured and added in their verses to make it an Asli tay Waddi Heer
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
Lal Singh Dil: The Tragic Poet
Lal Singh Dil’s poetry has the power to connect both the Punjabs, and all Punjabis to their shared grievous land
Writing our own stories
Casting a fresh look at the only anthology of female Punjabi fiction writers ever published in Pakistan
In the name of Heer
A worth reading anthology of female poets and a welcome addition to Punjabi Poetry
Poetry from Soon Sakesar
Ayub Awan made a conscious decision to write in his mother tongue and KeeDi da Aata was his first collection of Punjabi verse
Poetry of rural Punjab
A critical overview of the captivating, romantic and inimitable poetic genres especially from Lahnda Punjab
Somanatha: Mahmud Ghaznavi & Politics of reconstructed memory
Romila Thapar debunks the socially-accepted belief that Muslims and Hindus were always antagonistic to each other, beginning with the Muslim arrival in India
Aasia of Wazirabad: Undistorted View
Aasia, a self-taught painter from Wazirabad, does works in the native idiom, with surreal simplicity, intuitive strokes, strong colours and a blissful rawness