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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: 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: 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
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
