1. April 26, 2013: Guru Nanak, a great seer and a true son of soil! — Part II

2. April 19, 2013: The Punjabi literary tradition: Guru Nanak, a great seer and a true son of soil! — Part-I

3. April 12, 2013: Punjab: Disowning the owning and owning the disowning!

4. April 5, 2013: Mela Chiraghan: mystic laughs and poet sings!

5. Mach 26, 2013: Mela Chiragan: Mystic laughs and poet sings! – Part-I

6. March 15, 2013: In praise of animals!

7. March 8, 2013: The Punjabi literary tradition: Baba Farid blazes the trail!

8. March First, 2013: New books: poetry and linguistics

9. Feb 22, 2013: Language: The rise of the Persian and the early Punjabi!

10. Feb 17, 2013: The 'ninth' festival in Lahore!

11. Feb 15, 2013: Language: Sanskrit and Prakrits!

12. Feb 2, 2013: Language: threat of diversity

13. January 25, 2013: Food: Punjabi gathering and crowd!

14. January 18, 2013: Ravi and Chenab: demons and lovers

15. January 4, 2013: Winter: migratory birds and metaphors

16. December 28, 2012: Music of poetry and poetry of music

17. December 21, 2012: Cities without trees

18. December 14, 2012: Aryan caste system and socially mobile Punjabis

19. July 5, 2013: New books: novel, poetry and translations

20. June 28, 2013: Music: live performance designed to be a social signal!

21. June 21, 2013: A spectre haunts Punjab!

22. June 7, 2013: Damodar Gulati: poet who immortalised Heer and Ranjha — Part I

23. June 14, 2013: Damodar Gulati: poet who immortalised Heer and Ranjha — Part II

24. July 13, 2013: Sethi’s gestures for the good of Punjabi

25. May 24, 2013: The faceless and the nameless in our city!

26. July 10, 2013: Retaining the power and the art of survival — Part I

27. July 17, 2013: Retaining the power and the art of survival — Part II

28. July 3, 2013: New books: woman voice, oral history and urban desolation!

2014

1. Jan 3, 2014: Spectre of history haunts Punjabis

2. Jan 17, 2014: Cities without birds: Metaphors for lifeless tomorrow!

3. Jan 31, 2015: Mian Kamal Din: unusual narrative of Punjab – Part-II

4. Feb 7, 2014: How Harappa is different from Mohenjo-Daro!

5. Feb 28, 2014: Celebrating the Mother Language!

6. Mar 7, 2014: A classical poet with modern mind! — Part I

7. Mar 14, 2014: A classical poet with modern mind! –Part II

8. Apr 4, 2014: Books: novel and dictionary of technical terms

9. Apr 18, 2014: punjab notes: Chet and Vesakh: spring and harvest

10. May 2, 2014: Punjab Notes : Shrines: Public spaces with spiritual ambiance

11. May 30, 2014: Punjab Notes: Woman in public: body language born of fear!

12. Jun 13, 2014: Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab

13. Jun 20, 2014: Punjab Notes: Sufi music: new cultural hocus-pocus

14. Jun 27, 2014: Punjab Notes: Once upon a time…

15. Jul 18, 2014: Punjab Notes: No to state, yes to state jobs

16. Jul 25, 2014: Punjab Notes: Parliamentarians’ contempt for peoples’ languages

17. Aug 1, 2014: Punjab Notes: Sawan! A world of romance lost

18. Aug 8, 2014: Punjab Notes: Independence: remembering the dead

19. Aug 15, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Shortcut: ‘This world is in haste’

20. Aug 22, 2014: Punjab Notes: Baba Bulleh Shah: In quest of human identity

21. Sep 5, 2014: Punjab Notes: Books: stories of said and unsaid

22. Sep 12, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Poverty: dignity and indignity

23. Sep 19, 2014: Punjab Notes: Fury of waters!

24. Oct 3, 2014: Punjab’s middle class: hokey self-righteousness!

25. Oct 10, 2014: Burning house parable!

26. Oct 17, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Political crowd: reality of illusion

27. Oct 24, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Dhahan Prize: Honouring Punjabi literature

28. Oct 31, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Celibacy and our great poets

29. Nov 7, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES:: Celibacy and our great poets (Part-II)

30. Nov 14, 2014: Punjab notes: space for religious diversity

31. Dec 5, 2014: Punjab Notes: Contradictory popular narratives

32. Dec 12, 2014: Punjab Notes: Punjab’s dilemma!

33. Dec 19, 2014: Punjab Notes: Legends: deciphering the undeciphered

34. Dec 26, 2014: Children of the poor: the killers and the killed

2015

1. Jan 2, 2015: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names

2. Jan 9, 2015: Punjab Notes: Punjab’s elite: display of power

3. Jan 16, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: politician-I

4. Jan 23, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: mullah-II

5. Jan 30, 2015: Punjab Notes | Emergence of new heroes: NGO’s executive-III

6. Feb 6, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: real estate developer – IV

7. Feb 13, 2015: No Punjabi please! We are Muslim Punjabis

8. Feb 20, 2015: Punjab Notes: Cheerful Mother Language Day celebrations in cheerless Punjab

9. Feb 27, 2015: Punjab Notes: Mother language, people and politicians

10. Mar 6, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Basant: yellow fields and Lahore’s colourless sky

11. Mar 13, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Woman and Pakistani languages

12. Mar 20, 2015: Crowd: victims and predators

13. Mar 27, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Caste: social and political power

14. Apr 3, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Family: woman versus woman

15. Apr 10, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Young landlords: bulls and bullying

16. Apr 17, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Vesakhi: harvest of joy

17. Apr 24, 2015: Punjab: Did you hear what the Chinese president said?

18. May 1, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Why do they want to look like landlords?

19. May 8, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: City: road, automobile and pedestrian

20. May 15, 2015: Artist: creativity and dignity

21. May 22, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: an unusual novel and verses born of spontaneity

22. May 29, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Violence: assertion and negation of power

23. Jun 5, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Nasreen Anjum Bhatti: an inimitable poetic voice

24. Jun 12, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Mystics and scientists: how to describe the indescribable!

25. Jun 19, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Sachal: Fresh sound of music from Lahore!

26. Jun 26, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: Zahid’s novel and Sajid’s verses

27. Jul 03, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Abid Ameeq: an inspiring poet and challenging intellectual

28. Jul 10, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Mystery of Nau Nihal Singh’s death: the storyteller’s version

29. Jul 17, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Work: social disgrace or self-objectification

30. Jul 24, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Irshad Taunsvi: poetic reflections

31. Aug 07, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Slums: the city of the poor

32. Aug 28, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: sufism, burial register and a female voice

33. Sep 04, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Founders of Punjabi literary tradition and class oppression

34. Sep 11, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Afzal Ahsan Randhawa: a glimpse of Punjab and its traditions

35. Sep 25, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Literary critic: tradition and denial of intellectual independence

36. Oct 02, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Dr Saeed Bhutta: people’s history and storytelling

37. Oct 09, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Culture and system: accepting the unacceptable

38. Oct 16, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Modern Lahore: cross road and get killed

39. Oct 23, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: colonialism, language and spiritual music

40. Oct 30, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: East and west Punjab: nature of politics

41. Nov 06, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Not all the Hindus are Hindus!

42. Nov 13, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Conference: gathering or knowledge?

43. Nov 20, 2015: Punjab Notes: Vehat: where great warriors clashed

44. Nov 27, 2015: Punjab Notes: Sufism: commoditising of what is not a commodity

45. Dec 04, 2015: Punjab Notes: Classical literature: female voice, imagined and real

46. Dec 11, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: poetry and research-based criticism

47. Dec 18, 2015: Punjab Notes: Beas River: where troops of Alexander mutinied

2016

1. Jan 08, 2016: Punjab Notes: Social media: Pure language is dead language

2. Jan 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: ‘Whereof one can speak, thereof one must not be silent.

3. Jan 22, 2016: Punjab Notes: Governor Mulraj and Chaudhry Bahaab’s buffalo — (Part I)

4. Jan 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Governor Mulraj and Chaudhry Bahaab’s buffalo — (Part II)

5. Feb 05, 2016: Punjab Notes: You can hear her singing in the dark

6. Feb 12, 2016: Punjab Notes: Language: colonialism, power and class — part-I

7. Feb 19, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Language: colonialism, power and class — part-II

8. March 04, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Woman: less or more than man

9. March 11, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Memes: The past threatening the present

10. March 18, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Of courage and cowardice — Part I

11. March 25, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Of courage and cowardice — Part II

12. April 01, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: nightmares and birds

13. April 08, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Stories and translation of Sufi poetry

14. April 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Heer Waris Shah: He composed it 250 years ago

15. April 22, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Dacoit: criminal and hero

16. April 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Corruption: as old as pyramids

17. May 06, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: slaughtering of nature and history

18. May 20, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Summer: content and discontent

19. May 27, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Peasants on The Mall: starvation wages

20. June 03, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Cell phone: empowering the working class?

21. June 10, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Dr Faqir: retrieving the classical texts

22. June 17, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Minister, mullah and mom

23. June 24, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Rai Nasir: poet from the sacred land of the Guru

24. July 01, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Punjab: battle for water and food

25. July 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Tassi Dharti: a song of struggle and despair

26. July 22, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab notes: Woman’s body: a perennial challenge

27. July 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Waris Shah: neither a spiritual Guru nor a communist

28. Aug 05, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: music refuses to die

29. Aug 12, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Composing poetry for publishers

30. Aug 19, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Mob justice: state and society

31. Aug 26, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Source of human happiness: more or less?

32. Sep 02, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Bulleh Shah: demystifying mystic fires

33. Sep 16, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: The great Mughal and Dulla Bhatti: both or none!

34. Sep 23, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Culture: it cuts both ways

35. Sep 30, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab notes: Samina Hasan Syed: painting an audio landscape

36. Oct 07, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Saintly poets: denial of saintliness

37. Oct 14, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Muzaffar Ghaffaar’s classics ‘within reach’

38. Oct 21, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: An English medium school’s definition of foul language

39. Oct 28, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: People in cities: urbanised without urbanity (Part I)

40. Nov 04, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: People in cities: urbanised without urbanity (Part II)

41. Nov 11, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Parveen Malik and Anjum Qureshi: voice the unvoiced

42. Nov 18, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Scholars on ‘People and the City’

43. Nov 25, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Water: vanished river and expanded city

44. Dec 02, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Prose writing: orality, force of habit and underdevelopment

45. Dec 09, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Politics of culture: celebrating ‘ajrak’ and ‘topi’

46. Dec 16, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Population: ticking bomb or nature’s gift?

47. Dec 23, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Mr Achakzai, Mianwali and Afghans

48. Dec 30, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Growers: seeds of discontent and despair

2017

1. Janury 6, 2017: Punjab Notes: All the makings of a futuristic city

2. Janury 13, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Punjab is much bigger than Lahore

3. Janury 20, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Zafar Iqbal: the wages of creative sin

4. Feb 3, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Census: Punjab is not afraid of it

5. Feb 11, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Muzzafar Ghaffar’s Bulleh Shah and Samina Asma’s verses

6. Feb 24, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Mother language: realising the strength of diversity

7. March 10, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Contemporary woman: empowerment or burden doubled!

8. March 17, 2017: Punjab Notes: Potohar’s urials, Alexander’s horses and American hunters

9. March 24, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Water and morbidity of cultural habits

10. March 31, 2017: Punjab Notes: Madho Lal Hussain: glow of an eternal flame

11. April 21, 2017: Punjab Notes: Safdar Shah’s Punjabi Grammar and Nuzhat’s stories for children

12. May 5, 2017: Village and city: enriching and impoverishing

13. May 12, 2017: Punjab Notes: Social media: Pure language is dead language

14. May 26, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Young men from countryside dying as aliens

15. June 2, 2017: Punjab Notes: Promoting language and culture

16. June 16, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Poetry: things turn into their opposites and more is less

17. June 23, 2017: Punjab Notes: Classical texts: salvaging the literary heritage

18. June 30, 2017: Punjab Notes: After the fire the noise of muddled thinking!

19. July 7, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Farmers’ fading love for trees

20. July 21, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: They love children but not the poor ones

21. July 28, 2017: Punjab Notes: The University of Sargodha: aversion to teaching languages

22. Aug 04, 2017: Punjab Notes: Council of elders delivers its verdict: rape for rape

23. Aug 11, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence and Partition: how ordinary mortals describe it!

24. Aug 25, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence: ignored elements of colonial experience (Part-I)

25. Sep 01, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence: ignored elements of colonial experience (Part II)

26. Sep 08, 2017: Punjab Notes: Nasreen’s imagination and Paul’s history of journalism

27. Sep 15, 2017: Punjab Notes: Caste biases — culture proves stronger than faith

28. Sep 22, 2017: Punjab Notes: Anonymity: freedom from the tyranny of the past

29. Sep 29, 2017: Punjab Notes: Randhawa – litterateur who took writing as defiance

30. Oct 13, 2017: Punjab Notes: How concrete conditions shape poetry (Part-I)

31. Oct 20, 2017: Punjab Notes: How concrete conditions shape poetry (Part II)

32. Oct 27, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Bureaucracy: power and caste

33. Nov 03, 2017: Punjab Notes: History for you is what you think it is! (Part I)

34. Nov 10, 2017: Punjab Notes: History for you is what you think it is (Part II)

35. Nov 17, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: The city: a window or a cul-de-sac

36. Nov 24, 2017: Punjab Notes: Dying in foreign lands or getting killed on the way

37. Dec 01, 2017: Punjab Notes: Crowd: it is the objective that holds it together

38. Dec 08, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Sadiqullah’s poetry: aesthetics of love for people and places

39. Dec 15, 2017: Punjab Notes: Why do Punjab’s mystic poets frequently talk of death?

40. Dec 22, 2017: Punjab Notes: Two new novels: elegy or eulogy or both?

41. Dec 29, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Can you imagine a city sans foliage and feathers?

2018

1. Janury 12, 2018: Punjab Notes: Lack of patience and process of self-destruction

2. Janury 19, 2018: Punjab Notes: Dr Shahzad’s spirituality, Anjum Qureshi’s poetic mundanity

3. Janury 26, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Ustad Nazar Hussain: we stopped listening, he stopped singing

4. Feb 9, 2018: Punjab Notes: Highways: roads that enable us to get somewhere or...!

5. Feb 23, 2018: Punjab Notes: Two-day Punjabi Conference: venue does matter

6. March 2, 2018: Punjab Notes: Books: Historical fiction and literary criticism

7. March 16, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Punjab resisted invaders from North, South and East (Part-II)

8. March 23, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Irshad Taunsvi’s prose and Azam Malik’s poetry

9. March 30, 2018: Punjab Notes: The other side of social media

10. April 6, 2018: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names

11. April 20, 2018: Punjab Notes: New provinces: prime minister’s sane approach (Part-I)

12. April 27, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: New provinces: prime minister’s sane approach (Part-II)

13. May 7, 2018: Sufi saints and their descendants: part of the solution? (Part I)

14. May 14, 2018: Sufi saints and their descendants: part of the solution? (Part II)

15. May 21, 2018: Old age: wisdom, senility and despair

16. May 28, 2018: Punjab Notes: Aslam Rasoolpuri’s criticism and Mudassar Bashir’s stories

17. June 17, 2018: Akbar and Dulla Bhatti: resistance and dreams of new polity

18. June 25, 2018: Punjab Notes: Our classical literary age sans woman writer

19. July 2, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Children stories from the East and poetry from the South

20. July 9, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Monsoon: rains loved as much as dreaded

21. July 16, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Caste: it can make you win or lose election

22. July 23, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Remembering a poet who is forgotten but not dead

23. Aug 6, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Sardar Muhammad Khan: a life spent in search of word

24. Aug 13, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Literary communalism in Punjab: a historical perspective — Part I

25. Aug 20, 2018: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names

26. Aug 27, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: delights of folk music and verses from abroad

27. Sep 3, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Rule of law: fast vanishing colonial legacy

28. Sep 10, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Remembering Ustad Daman: man who confronted the powerful

29. Sep 17, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Death: experience of what can’t be experienced

30. Sep 24, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Muzaffar Ghaffaar’s work: Heer translated into English

31. Oct 01, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Baba Farid: subversion of spiritual and intellectual legacy

32. Oct 08, 2018: Punjab notes: People’s language in Punjab: a historical overview — Part I

33. Oct 15, 2018: Punjab notes: People’s language in Punjab: a historical overview — Part II

34. Oct 22, 2018: Punjab notes: Fakhar Zaman’s poetry and Rishum Paul’s translations

35. Oct 29, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Sense of history: mayhem caused by communal factors

36. Nov 12, 2018: Punjab Notes: Art, tolerance and democracy

37. Nov 19, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Village: natural beauty and human ugliness

38. Dec 03, 2018: Punjab notes: Contemporary language: changes or distortions

39. Dec 10, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Don’t push the farmers too far!

40. Dec 17, 2018: Punjab notes: Puran Bhagat: an unusual tale from ancient times

41. Dec 24, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Welcome the return of Basant to Lahore

42. Dec 31, 2018: Punjab Notes: Baba Farid in English and folklore as mythology

2019

1. Jan 14, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Winter: little more than absence of summer

2. Jan 21, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Manzur’s autobiography: a chronicle of our near past

3. Jan 28, 2019: Punjab Notes: Translation: absence of quantity and quality

4. Feb 11, 2019: Punjab Notes: Myth of golden era: the past that never existed!

5. Feb 25, 2019: Punjab notes: Death: tears and cries alleviate pain

6. Mar 11, 2019: Punjab Notes: Rai Nasir and Hameed Razi: poetry and travel

7. Mar 18, 2019: Punjab Notes: Recent Aurat March: it sets tongues wagging

8. Mar 25, 2019: Punjab Notes: Expats: challenge of conflicting demands of different cultures

9. Apr 01, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Punjab’s Left and its alienation from people

10. Apr 15, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Sachal and Beckett: meaning and meaninglessness

11. Apr 22, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Freakish weather: local repercussions of a global crisis

12. Apr 29, 2019: Punjab Notes: Distorted psyche: DNA or social structures or both?

13. May 6, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Baba Nanak, the seer: a new poetic translation

14. May 13, 2019: Punjab Notes: Piro Preman: celebrations of spirituality and feminism

15. May 20, 2019: Punjab Notes: On campuses: Punjabi language and literature

16. May 27, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Invaders: fallacies regarding capitulation and resistance — Part-I

17. Jun 3, 2019: Punjab notes: Invaders: fallacies regarding capitulation and resistance — Part II

18. Jun 10, 2019: Punjab Notes: Waris Nama: Heer reinterpreted and made accessible

19. Jun 24, 2019: Punjab Notes: They treat state-owned property as enemy property!

20. Jul 01, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: A.D. Aijaz: storyteller of Ravi and Harappa falls silent

21. Jul 8, 2019: Punjab Notes: Woman and semantics: cost of surviving without man!

22. Jul 15, 2019: Punjab Notes: Mian Muhammad, Dr Faqir and contemporary poetry

23. Jul 22, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Dulla Bhatti and Emperor Akbar: missing the big picture — Part-I

24. Jul 29, 2019: Punjab notes: Dulla Bhatti and Emperor Akbar: missing the big picture — Part-II

25. Aug 5, 2019: Punjab notes: Waris Shah: the world of power in his narrative — Part I

26. Aug 19, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Waris Shah: the world of power in his narrative — Part II

27. Aug 26, 2019: Punjab Notes: Bulleh Shah: beyond caste and its polluting touch

28. Sep 2, 2019: Punjab notes: Kashmir as reflected in Punjab’s imagination

29. Sep 9, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Amrita Pritam: a star all the way with undiminished brilliance

30. Sep 16, 2019: Punjab Notes: Books: prose and poetry, classical and contemporary

31. Sep 23, 2019: Punjab Notes: Language versus language: unending struggle for domination — Part I

32. Sep 30, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Language versus language: unending struggle for domination — Part II

33. Oct 7, 2019: PUNJAB NOTES: Colonial mindset that demonised Punjab’s language

34. Oct 14, 2019: Punjab Notes: Farmers: use of baton and corporate shenanigans

35. Oct 21, 2019: Punjab notes: Welcome winter which is less than winter

36. Oct 28, 2019: Punjab notes: Village: where have all the artisans gone!

37. Nov 4, 2019: Punjab Notes: Scholars and professionals on citizens and the city

38. Nov 17, 2019: COLUMN: RETURN OF THE NATIVE - Newspaper - DAWN.COM DAWN.COM › NEWSPAPER › BOOKS & AUTHORS

39. Nov 18, 2019: Punjab Notes: Baba Nanak: looking from a non-religious perspective

40. Nov 25, 2019: Punjab Notes: Baba Guru Nanak: roots of our literary tradition

41. Dec 2, 2019: Punjab Notes: Books: Khwaja Farid in English and Azra’s autobiography

42. Dec 9, 2019: Punjab Notes: Language: alive and dead metaphors

43. Dec 30, 2019: Punjab Notes: Dr. Manzur Ejaz: a new narrative of Punjab

2020

1. Jan 20, 2020: Punjab Notes: Magazines: what’s new on literary horizon?

2. Jan 27, 2020: Punjab Notes: Post-colonial decay: neglecting the cornucopia of colonial practices

3. Feb 3, 2020: Punjab Notes: Dissent: power of logic or logic of power

4. Feb 17, 2020: Punjab Notes: Loneliness: life in quarantine for indefinite future

5. Feb 24, 2020: Punjab Notes: Language: development at the cost of cultural destruction

6. Mar 2, 2020: Punjab Notes: Lack of saving, ostentation and social prestige

7. Mar 16, 2020: Punjab Notes: Division of Punjab: no method to the madness

8. Mar 23, 2020: Punjab notes: From Lahore to Sahiwal: a highway to hell

9. Mar 30, 2020: Punjab Notes: Crisis: redefining the relationship between people and state

10. Apr 6, 2020: Punjab notes: What does afflict the earth: greed or disease?

11. Apr 13, 2020: Punjab Notes: After the deluge: something new or more of the same?

12. Apr 20, 2020: Punjab Notes: Sages: experience of dying before one’s death

13. Apr 27, 2020: Punjab Notes: Poetry and fiction: Ravinder Sehra and Tipu Salman

14. May 4, 2020: Punjab Notes: Everyday violence: tradition, law and social regulation

15. May 11, 2020: Punjab Notes: History versus nationalism: manufacturing the heroes!

16. May 18, 2020: Punjab Notes: Identity crisis: sense of worthlessness creates rootlessness (Part-1)

17. Jun 1, 2020: Punjab Notes: Identity crises: sense of worthlessness creates rootlessness (Part 2)

18. Jun 8, 2020: Punjab Notes: Tribes and castes: on disowning the indigenous roots!

19. Jun 15, 2020: Punjab Notes: Politics of colour: a black-and-white narrative?

20. Jul 6, 2020: Punjab Notes: Stories from the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh!

21. Jul 27, 2020: punjab notes: Sughra Sadaf’s stories and Javaid Kanwal’s verses

22. Aug 10, 2020: Punjab Notes: Banning books: dread of what challenges the unchallenged (Part I)

23. Aug 17, 2020: Punjab notes: Banning books: challenging the unchallenged (Part II)

24. Aug 24, 2020: Punjab notes: Bulleh Shah: undying crisis of multiple identities

25. Sep 7, 2020: Punjab Notes: Pilu from Dhun who composed Sahiban’s tale (Part I)

26. Sep 14, 2020: Punjab Notes: Pilu from Dhun who composed Sahiban’s tale (Part II)

27. Sep 21, 2020: Punjab Notes: Books: history of philosophy, translations and poetry

28. Sep 28, 2020: Punjab Notes: No to poetry reflecting the contemporary age!

29. Oct 12, 2020: Punjab Notes: Oldies, consumerism and happiness in a changed world!

30. Oct 19, 2020: Punjab Notes: It’s time to receive our seasonal guests!

31. Oct 26, 2020: Punjab Notes: Book: people’s history, cultural practices and resistance

32. Nov 2, 2020: Punjab Notes: Language and power are inseparably linked

33. Nov 9, 2020: Punjab notes: Baton and shells welcome our country cousins

34. Nov 23, 2020: Punjab notes: The man given to talking to trees!

35. Nov 30, 2020: Punjab Notes: Punjab sans Punjab: much in a name!

36. Dec 7, 2020: Punjab Notes: Ustad Daman: men in power had reason to fear him

37. Dec 28, 2020: Punjab Notes: Pandemic: hubris makes fragility unbearable

2021

1. Jan 11, 2021: Nadir Ali: the man who preferred sound to silence

2. Jan 18, 2021: Modern Punjabi poets and their loneliness

3. Jan 25, 2021: Punjab Notes: Rai Nasir with amazing stories from Sandal Bar

4. Feb 1, 2021: Punjab Notes: Distorting history for redress of historical injustices?

5. Feb 8 2021: Punjab Notes: Law: is it meant to be broken?

6. Feb 22, 2021: Punjab notes: Mother Language Day: linguistic conundrum and its solution

7. Mar 1, 2021: Punjab Notes: Irshad Taunsvi gone: birds would miss him!

8. Mar 8, 2021: Punjab Notes: Culture as defined by our culture vultures!

9. Mar 15, 2021: Punjab Notes: Motherhood: Is defiant daughter ‘fire from the womb’?

10. Mar 29, 2021: Punjab Notes: Revival of film making: reality and ideology!

11. Apr 5, 2021: Madho Lal Husain: flame and flower

12. Apr 12, 2021: Punjab Notes: Culture that destroys nature and disregards history!

13. Apr 12, 2021: Nature of violence: the past isn’t past

14. May 3, 2021: Punjab Notes: Sarmad Sehbai’s plays: more than mundane nothingness

15. May 10, 2021: Punjab Notes: People’s culture: a sense of fellow feeling

16. May 31, 2021: Punjab Notes: On people who lived in floating cities

17. Jun 7, 2021: Punjab Notes: Names of cities and towns: splashes of water!

18. Jul 5, 2021: Punjab Notes: Loonaywala: the audio landscape that he painted

19. Jul 5, 2021: Allah Dita Loonaywala and the audio landscape he painted

20. Jul 12, 2021: Punjab Notes: Question: beginning and end of learning and knowledge

21. Jul 19, 2021: Punjab Notes: Fazal Farid Laleka: Bullah’s name and Khawaja Farid’s Masnavi

22. Jul 26, 2021: punjab notes: Hypocrisy: a way of life or a dark alley?

23. Aug 2, 2021: Punjab Notes: Notions of masculinity: religionists and mystics

24. Aug 9, 2021: Punjab Notes: Four wise men: the way justice is dispensed – Part I

25. Aug 16, 2021: Punjab Notes: Four wise men: the way justice is dispensed – Part II

26. Aug 23, 2021: Amrita’s Diary, Ghadar Movement and thematic poetry

27. Aug 30, 2021: Punjab Notes: Young men and crime against women

28. Sep 13, 2021: Punjab Notes: Wazir Afzal: His earthly music sounds ethereal

29. Sep 20, 2021: Punjab Notes: Books: Grammar, chronicle of poets and novel

30. Sep 27, 2021: Punjab Notes: Freedom struggle: Rai Ahmed still not owned

31. Oct 4, 2021: Overpopulation: our dog-eat-dog world

32. Oct 11, 2021: Punjab Notes: What can sustain us — agriculture and IT perhaps

33. Oct 25, 2021: Punjab Notes: Caste phenomenon: vestiges of Vedic times

34. Nov 1, 2021: Punjab Notes: Qadir Shaggan: Rubabi and Gwalior music traditions

35. Nov 8, 2021: Violence in the name of things higher

36. Nov 22, 2021: Punjab Notes: Dog and dog’s life: rewarding loyalty?

37. Dec 6, 2021: Punjab Notes: Guru/Murshid: the past weighs on the present

38. Dec 13, 2021: Punjab Notes: Books: translations, dictionary for kids and poets

39. Dec 20, 2021: Punjab Notes: Language: An elusive conduit for power struggle – Part I

40. Dec 27, 2021: Punjab Notes: Language: An elusive conduit for power struggle – Part 11

2022

1. Jan 3, 2022: Punjab Notes: Teaching Punjabi: some money for it from public purse

2. Jan 10, 2022: Punjab Notes: Poets: why are they so many?

3. Jan 17, 2022: Punjab notes: A poet’s life: the cost of defiance in suffering – Part I

4. Jan 24, 2022: Punjab Notes: A poet’s life: cost of defiance in suffering – Part II

5. Jan 31 2022: Appearance: preparing a face that we prepare

6. Feb 14, 2022: Punjab Notes: Our cities reflect the primitiveness of modernity

7. Feb 21, 2022: Punjab Notes: Our linguistic diversity: enrichment or impoverishment?

8. Feb 28, 2022: Punjab Notes: Waris Shah’s 300th birth anniversary, his counter-narrative

9. Mar 14, 2022: Punjab Notes: Books: Ajaz Anwar, Harris Khalique, Ejaz and ...DAWN.COM › NEWSPAPER › LAHORE

10. Mar 28, 2022: Punjabi ‘Dhugga’ and its glorious history

11. Apr 4, 2022: Punjab notes: Madho Lal Husain: indigenous soul and joy of life

12. Apr 11, 2022: punjab notes: Stories galore – Javed Boota and Shahzad Aslam

13. Apr 18, 2022: Punjab notes: Folks in search of panacea for their problems

14. May 2, 2022: Punjab notes: Poverty: neither an essential evil nor desirable ...DAWN.COM › NEWSPAPER › LAHORE

15. May 9, 2022: punjab notes: Books: Hameed Razi and Gurmeet Singh Sandhu

16. Jul 4, 2022: Punjab notes: History writing: self-created linguistic barriers

17. Sep 26, 2022: Punjab Notes: Survival: stop procreating and encroaching forthwith

18. Oct 3, 2022: Punjab Notes: New urban spaces: inbuilt social loneliness

19. Oct 24, 2022: Punjab Notes: Surinder Sohal’s poetry and Shagufta Gimmi’s compilation

20. Oct 31, 2022: Punjab Notes: Visa application centre: future full of promise?

21. Nov 7, 2022: Punjab Notes: Crowd: success, failure and fear

22. Dec 5, 2022: Punjab Notes: Books of poetry: Sarwat, Afzal and Saghir

23. Dec 12, 2023: Punjab Notes: Suicide: individual and collective

2023

1. Jan 30, 2023: Punjab notes: The River Ravi and its 'civilised demons' - Newspaper ..

2. Mar 6, 2023: Punjab Notes: Punjabi language and historical records

3. Mar 27, 2023: Punjab notes: Pilu's village: Hafiz's crow and R.C. Temple – Part II

4. Apr 17, 2023: Punjab Notes: Abid Ameeq on language, he has a case

5. Dec 18, 2023: Punjab notes: Ahmed Saleem: should we mourn or celebrate?

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