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Delhi and Lahore – globalised fads and trends
This piece of mine appeared in the Hindustan Times yesterday. An accidental piece it was, written on the request of a friend during my…
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Khowaja Fareed – the Sufi voice of Southern Punjab
A special friend, for the lack of a better term (why are we always hankering after labels and idenitities for some associations that lie…
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Naanak’s wisdom
THE NEWS By Nadir Ali A little over fifty years ago our Persian teacher, a pious maulana in the old mould, was explaining the…
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sanon apna yaar rajhawan dey – Bulleh Shah
With due apologies to those who cannot understand Punjabi. I will work on a translation sometime later. mar na mulla bulariyan sanon apna yaar…
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Two Punjabi poems
I am grateful to AK for sending me these lovely poems: Kujh asraar nay meray dil vich, Jehray kadi na dassay, Jeewain pani bharya…
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Half a Uniform – a passionate poem
This poem was published by a columnist in the Urdu daily Jang. The poet, a political worker, is aggrieved by the ongoing negotiations between…
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God – the tangled narrative
A Punjabi quartet by the Sikh poet Mohan Singh Rabb ik gunjhaldar ibbarat, rabb ik gorakhdhandha, Pech aes de kholde, kholde kaafir ho jaye…
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Ustad Daman on partition – again
Here is the roman Punjabi version of Ustad Daaman‘s poem that appeared in my earlier post. Punjabi readers will appreciate it. Bha’n-wain Moo-hoon Na…
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Amrita Pritam: 1919-2005
Amrita Pritam never woke up on the afternoon of October 31, 2005 and the world is emptier without her musings. She embodied the fullness…