LAHORE: Punjabi singer and composer Bilal Saeed has sung an Urdu song for the upcoming Bollywood flick Ishqedarriyan...
During a press conference at a café on MM Alam Road on Friday, Saeed said he usually sang Punjabi songs but in Ishqedarriyan, being released on May 15, he had sung an Urdu song...
LAHORE: The National Conference of Languages and Cultures will be held next month to highlight the hurdles impeding recognition of all languages of Pakistan, according to World Punjabi Congress Chairman Fakhar Zaman...
He was addressing at the International Vaisakhi Punjabi Mushaira here on Sunday...
The translator’s problem is that he is a performer without a stage, a performer who, when all his work is done, has something that looks just like the original, just like a play or a song or a composition, nothing but ink on a page...
However, Mushtaq Soofi takes it upon himself to translate Brecht’s poems into Punjabi...
Gifted with a sharp eye and a seeker’s heart, Punjabi poet and novelist Nazar Hussain Jani was born to a daily-wage labourer in the small village of Goppay Raaey at the bank of the Ravi on the outskirts of Lahore...
Jani is grateful to Sadiq Pervaiz of Bazm-i-Jehan-i-Waris for introducing him to the poetry of Punjabi classical poet Waris Shah...
Born on Sept 1, 1937 in Amritsar (India), Afzal Randhawa earned laurels for his tireless and selfless efforts towards the literary journey, especially in Punjabi language...
Moreover, he was a major proponent of the renaissance of Punjabi language and literature...
Singing for the fellow shepherds in the grazing fields was the first platform for the Punjabi folk singer Safdar Mahi...
Except for the traditional tune of Heer Waris Shah, which is unparalleled, I experimented with numerous traditional renderings of Punjabi classical poets,” Mahi claims...
Udham Singh, a revolutionary inspired by the Marxist Ghadar movement of Punjabi Sikhs against British rule and by Bhagat Singh, sought to avenge the massacre...
On the other hand, he was still rooted in Punjabi cultural ethos...
LAHORE: World Punjabi Congress chairman Fakhar Zaman has alleged that Punjabi bureaucracy, elite and politicians are enemy of their own language and culture, whereas the Sindhi, the Baloch and the Pashtun want Punjabi language to get its rightful place...
He regretted that discriminatory treatment was consistently being meted out to Punjabi in the very land where it was born...
SAHIWAL: Sandal Natak from Faisalabad performed a 30-minute Punjabi play at Divisional and District Public School Auditorium on Wednesday...
The year was 1905 and a tall and handsome 16-year old Punjabi Sikh in saffron robes walked into the Divinity College at Nila Gumbad and declared that he was the walking Christ...
From this point onward we learn of this unique Punjabi Christian ‘sadhu’ travelling the world...
CHIEFLY known as one of the foremost Sufi saints of the Chishtiya order of mystics, Hazrat Baba Fareeduddin Masood Ganjshakar was a poet, too, and he wrote poetry in Urdu, Persian and Punjabi...
Some researchers have shown their doubts over the origin and authenticity of the Urdu, Persian and Punjabi poetry attributed to Baba Fareed...
KASUR: Punjabi poets and singers at Vesakhi Mela in Mustafabad (Lalyani) on Saturday urged people to mention Punjabi as their mother tongue in the census...
Vesakhi Mela is held every year on the platform of Punjabi Khoj Garh founded by poet Iqbal Qaiser who belongs to Lalyani...
LAHORE: Punjabi scholar, poet, researcher and educationist Sharif Sabir, who passed away on Thursday, was laid to rest at Narang Mandi on Friday...
Born at Pakki Saraan, Sheikhupura on May 18, 1928, Sabir was a towering personality in Punjabi literature as he had many feathers in his cap being a poet, translator, researcher and editor...
FAISALABAD: Punjabi folk songs, mystics’ poetry and photography exhibition on culture enthralled the audience on Monday, the first day of the first Lyallpur Punjabi Literary Festival being held at the arts council...
The two-day festival is also titled “Lyallpur Punjabi Sulaikh Mela”...
FAISALABAD: Speakers at a session on women’s role in the Punjabi literature decided to form a society of the literati to work for the promotion of the language...
The festival “Lyallpur Punjabi Sulaikh Mela” concluded at the Arts Council on Tuesday...