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Mushtaq Soofi Columns
456 columns
2012
1. December 14, 2012: Aryan caste system and socially mobile Punjabis
2. December 21, 2012: Cities without trees
3. December 28, 2012: Music of poetry and poetry of music
2013
1. January 4, 2013: Winter: migratory birds and metaphors
2. January 18, 2013: Ravi and Chenab: demons and lovers
3. January 25, 2013: Food: Punjabi gathering and crowd!
4. Feb 2, 2013: Language: threat of diversity
5. Feb 15, 2013: Language: Sanskrit and Prakrits!
6. Feb 17, 2013: The 'ninth' festival in Lahore!
7. Feb 22, 2013: Language: The rise of the Persian and the early Punjabi!
8. March First, 2013: New books: poetry and linguistics
9. March 8, 2013: The Punjabi literary tradition: Baba Farid blazes the trail!
10. March 15, 2013: In praise of animals!
11. Mach 26, 2013: Mela Chiragan: Mystic laughs and poet sings! – Part-I
12. April 5, 2013: Mela Chiraghan: mystic laughs and poet sings!
13. April 12, 2013: Punjab: Disowning the owning and owning the disowning!
14. April 19, 2013: The Punjabi literary tradition: Guru Nanak, a great seer and a true son of soil! — Part-I
15. April 26, 2013: Guru Nanak, a great seer and a true son of soil! — Part II
16. May 24, 2013: The faceless and the nameless in our city!
17. June 7, 2013: Damodar Gulati: poet who immortalised Heer and Ranjha Part I
18. June 14, 2013: Damodar Gulati: poet who immortalised Heer and Ranjha Part II
19. June 21, 2013: A spectre haunts Punjab!
20. June 28, 2013: Music: live performance designed to be a social signal!
21. July 3, 2013: New books: woman voice, oral history and urban desolation!
22. July 5, 2013: New books: novel, poetry and translations
23. July 10, 2013: Retaining the power and the art of survival Part I
24. Signs and symbols in authority-driven society! — Part 1
25. July 13, 2013: Sethis gestures for the good of Punjabi
26. July 17, 2013: Retaining the power and the art of survival Part II
27. Signs and symbols in authority-driven society — Part 2
28. Waris Shah: the immortal voice of the people! — Part 1
29. Waris Shah: the immortal voice of the people! — Part 2
30. Marriage: a lusty racist obsession and politics of power!
31. Sawan: Loss of romance and romance of loss!
32. New books: Sufism, music, language and culture!
33. Education emergency! What about your language Mr Governor?
34. Education Emergency! What about your language Mr Governor
35. Sufism: new commodity at our socio-political super store!
36. Punjabis: Fear of plural identities!
37. Guru Granth Sahib and the Muslims
38. Heroes: Death as a signifier of life
39. Sanitised urban islands: stink of bankrupt elite
40. Old age: wisdom and senility!
41. Sketches, contemporary verses, travelogue and classical poetry
42. The question of language and dialects in Punjab
43. Sardar Khan and his Punjabi Urdu Dictionary!
44. Folk-narrative, poetry, short stories and Saiful Maluk
2014
1. Jan 3, 2014: Spectre of history haunts Punjabis
2. Jan 17, 2014: Cities without birds: Metaphors for lifeless tomorrow!
3. Feb 7, 2014: How Harappa is different from Mohenjo-Daro!
4. Exposé of contemporary world
5. Mother language day and tongueless Punjab
6. Feb 28, 2014: Celebrating the Mother Language!
7. Pakistani languages: Sindh Assembly takes the lead
8. Honour killing: family, property and woman!
9. Apr 4, 2014: Books: novel and dictionary of technical terms
10. Gora Raj: our elders and national narrative
11. Apr 18, 2014: punjab notes: Chet and Vesakh: spring and harvest
12. punjab notes: Music: saying the unsaid
13. May 2, 2014: Punjab Notes : Shrines: Public spaces with spiritual ambiance
14. Punjab Notes : Materialistic world view in classical poetry
15. Punjab notes : They elope, we kill
16. Punjab notes: Mosque: the past and the present
17. May 30, 2014: Punjab Notes: Woman in public: body language born of fear!
18. Jun 13, 2014: Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab
19. Jun 20, 2014: Punjab Notes: Sufi music: new cultural hocus-pocus
20. PUNJAB NOTES : ‘Kammi’: work unrespected
21. Jul 18, 2014: Punjab Notes: No to state, yes to state jobs
22. Aug 1, 2014: Punjab Notes: Sawan! A world of romance lost
23. Aug 8, 2014: Punjab Notes: Independence: remembering the dead
24. Aug 22, 2014: Punjab Notes: Baba Bulleh Shah: In quest of human identity
25. Sep 5, 2014: Punjab Notes: Books: stories of said and unsaid
26. Sep 12, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Poverty: dignity and indignity
27. Sep 19, 2014: Punjab Notes: Fury of waters!
28. Oct 10, 2014: Burning house parable!
29. Oct 17, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Political crowd: reality of illusion
30. Oct 24, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Dhahan Prize: Honouring Punjabi literature
31. Oct 31, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES: Celibacy and our great poets
32. Nov 7, 2014: PUNJAB NOTES:: Celibacy and our great poets (Part-II)
33. Nov 14, 2014: Punjab notes: space for religious diversity
34. PUNJAB NOTES: Village school: Untold story of times bygone
35. Punjab Notes: Words and social relations
36. Dec 5, 2014: Punjab Notes: Contradictory popular narratives
37. Dec 19, 2014: Punjab Notes: Legends: deciphering the undeciphered
38. 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 16, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: politician-I
3. Jan 23, 2015: Punjab Notes: Emergence of new heroes: mullah-II
4. Feb 13, 2015: No Punjabi please! We are Muslim Punjabis
5. Feb 20, 2015: Punjab Notes: Cheerful Mother Language Day celebrations in cheerless Punjab
6. Feb 27, 2015: Punjab Notes: Mother language, people and politicians
7. Mar 13, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Woman and Pakistani languages
8. Mar 20, 2015: Crowd: victims and predators
9. Mar 27, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Caste: social and political power
10. Apr 3, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Family: woman versus woman
11. Apr 10, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Young landlords: bulls and bullying
12. Apr 17, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Vesakhi: harvest of joy
13. Apr 24, 2015: Punjab: Did you hear what the Chinese president said?
14. May 1, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Why do they want to look like landlords?
15. May 8, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: City: road, automobile and pedestrian
16. May 15, 2015: Artist: creativity and dignity
17. May 22, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: an unusual novel and verses born of spontaneity
18. May 29, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Violence: assertion and negation of power
19. Jun 5, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Nasreen Anjum Bhatti: an inimitable poetic voice
20. Jun 12, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Mystics and scientists: how to describe the indescribable!
21. Jun 19, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Sachal: Fresh sound of music from Lahore!
22. Jul 03, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Abid Ameeq: an inspiring poet and challenging intellectual
23. Jul 17, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Work: social disgrace or self-objectification
24. Jul 24, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Irshad Taunsvi: poetic reflections
25. PUNJAB NOTES: Our lords of TV talk shows: disease and diagnosis
26. Aug 07, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Slums: the city of the poor
27. Aug 28, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: sufism, burial register and a female voice
28. Sep 04, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Founders of Punjabi literary tradition and class oppression
29. Sep 11, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Afzal Ahsan Randhawa: a glimpse of Punjab and its traditions
30. Sep 25, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Literary critic: tradition and denial of intellectual independence
31. Oct 09, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Culture and system: accepting the unacceptable
32. Oct 16, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Modern Lahore: cross road and get killed
33. Oct 23, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: colonialism, language and spiritual music
34. Oct 30, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: East and west Punjab: nature of politics
35. Nov 06, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Not all the Hindus are Hindus!
36. Nov 13, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Conference: gathering or knowledge?
37. Nov 20, 2015: Punjab Notes: Vehat: where great warriors clashed
38. Nov 27, 2015: Punjab Notes: Sufism: commoditising of what is not a commodity
39. Dec 04, 2015: Punjab Notes: Classical literature: female voice, imagined and real
40. Dec 11, 2015: PUNJAB NOTES: Books: poetry and research-based criticism
41. Dec 18, 2015: Punjab Notes: Beas River: where troops of Alexander mutinied
42. Culture of marriage: rituals and creativity
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. Feb 05, 2016: Punjab Notes: You can hear her singing in the dark
4. Mother language and Punjab government
5. March 04, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Woman: less or more than man
6. March 11, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Memes: The past threatening the present
7. April 01, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: nightmares and birds
8. April 08, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Stories and translation of Sufi poetry
9. April 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Heer Waris Shah: He composed it 250 years ago
10. April 22, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Dacoit: criminal and hero
11. April 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Corruption: as old as pyramids
12. May 06, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: slaughtering of nature and history
13. Punjab Notes: Our women, their women
14. May 20, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Summer: content and discontent
15. May 27, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Peasants on The Mall: starvation wages
16. June 03, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Cell phone: empowering the working class?
17. June 10, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Dr Faqir: retrieving the classical texts
18. June 17, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Minister, mullah and mom
19. June 24, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Rai Nasir: poet from the sacred land of the Guru
20. July 01, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Punjab: battle for water and food
21. July 15, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Tassi Dharti: a song of struggle and despair
22. July 29, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Waris Shah: neither a spiritual Guru nor a communist
23. Aug 05, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Lahore: music refuses to die
24. Lahore is a city where music refuses to die
25. Aug 12, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Composing poetry for publishers
26. Aug 19, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Mob justice: state and society
27. Aug 26, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Source of human happiness: more or less?
28. Sep 02, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Bulleh Shah: demystifying mystic fires
29. Sep 16, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: The great Mughal and Dulla Bhatti: both or none!
30. Sep 23, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Culture: it cuts both ways
31. Sep 30, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab notes: Samina Hasan Syed: painting an audio landscape
32. Oct 07, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Saintly poets: denial of saintliness
33. Oct 28, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: People in cities: urbanised without urbanity (Part I)
34. Nov 04, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: People in cities: urbanised without urbanity (Part II)
35. Nov 11, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Parveen Malik and Anjum Qureshi: voice the unvoiced
36. Nov 25, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Water: vanished river and expanded city
37. Dec 02, 2016: Punjab Notes: Punjab Notes: Prose writing: orality, force of habit and underdevelopment
38. Dec 23, 2016: Punjab Notes: PUNJAB NOTES: Mr Achakzai, Mianwali and Afghans
39. 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. PUNJAB NOTES: Develop districts, save Lahore
5. Feb 3, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Census: Punjab is not afraid of it
6. Punjab Notes: Cultural practices: wisdom and knowledge
7. Feb 24, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Mother language: realising the strength of diversity
8. Spaces and places: there is much in a name
9. March 10, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Contemporary woman: empowerment or burden doubled!
10. March 24, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Water and morbidity of cultural habits
11. March 31, 2017: Punjab Notes: Madho Lal Hussain: glow of an eternal flame
12. Punjab Notes: Pir and followers: salvation in killing
13. Punjab Notes: Census: rejection of Punjabi as mother language
14. May 5, 2017: Village and city: enriching and impoverishing
15. May 12, 2017: Punjab Notes: Social media: Pure language is dead language
16. PUNJAB NOTES: Mahmood’s poems and Sobhati’s novella
17. May 26, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Young men from countryside dying as aliens
18. June 2, 2017: Punjab Notes: Promoting language and culture
19. Punjab Notes: Muzaffar Ghaffaar translates Damodar’s Heer
20. June 16, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: Poetry: things turn into their opposites and more is less
21. June 23, 2017: Punjab Notes: Classical texts: salvaging the literary heritage
22. June 30, 2017: Punjab Notes: After the fire the noise of muddled thinking!
23. July 21, 2017: PUNJAB NOTES: They love children but not the poor ones
24. July 28, 2017: Punjab Notes: The University of Sargodha: aversion to teaching languages
25. Aug 04, 2017: Punjab Notes: Council of elders delivers its verdict: rape for rape
26. Aug 11, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence and Partition: how ordinary mortals describe it!
27. Aug 25, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence: ignored elements of colonial experience (Part-I)
28. Sep 01, 2017: Punjab Notes: Independence: ignored elements of colonial experience (Part II)
29. Sep 22, 2017: Punjab Notes: Anonymity: freedom from the tyranny of the past
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 22, 2017: Punjab Notes: Two new novels: elegy or eulogy or both?
39. 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 26, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Ustad Nazar Hussain: we stopped listening, he stopped singing
3. Feb 9, 2018: Punjab Notes: Highways: roads that enable us to get somewhere or...!
4. Feb 23, 2018: Punjab Notes: Two-day Punjabi Conference: venue does matter
5. March 2, 2018: Punjab Notes: Books: Historical fiction and literary criticism
6. March 16, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Punjab resisted invaders from North, South and East (Part-II)
7. March 30, 2018: Punjab Notes: The other side of social media
8. April 6, 2018: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names
9. PUNJAB NOTES: Ahmadani’s narrative and Sabir‘s story of human society
10. May 7, 2018: Sufi saints and their descendants: part of the solution? (Part I)
11. May 14, 2018: Sufi saints and their descendants: part of the solution? (Part II)
12. May 21, 2018: Old age: wisdom, senility and despair
13. June 17, 2018: Akbar and Dulla Bhatti: resistance and dreams of new polity
14. June 25, 2018: Punjab Notes: Our classical literary age sans woman writer
15. July 2, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Children stories from the East and poetry from the South
16. July 9, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Monsoon: rains loved as much as dreaded
17. July 16, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Caste: it can make you win or lose election
18. July 23, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Remembering a poet who is forgotten but not dead
19. Aug 6, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Sardar Muhammad Khan: a life spent in search of word
20. Aug 20, 2018: Punjab Notes : Punjab: some of its ancient names
21. PUNJAB NOTES: Literary communalism in Punjab: a historical perspective — Part II
22. Aug 27, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: New books: delights of folk music and verses from abroad
23. Sep 3, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Rule of law: fast vanishing colonial legacy
24. Sep 10, 2018: PUNJAB NOTES: Remembering Ustad Daman: man who confronted the powerful
25. PUNJAB NOTES: Muzaffar Ghaffaar’s work: Heer translated into English
26. PUNJAB NOTES: Baba Farid: subversion of spiritual and intellectual legacy
27. Punjab notes: People’s language in Punjab: a historical overview — Part I
28. Punjab notes: People’s language in Punjab: a historical overview — Part II
29. Punjab notes: Fakhar Zaman’s poetry and Rishum Paul’s translations
30. PUNJAB NOTES: Sense of history: mayhem caused by communal factors
31. Punjab Notes: Art, tolerance and democracy
32. PUNJAB NOTES: Village: natural beauty and human ugliness
33. Punjab notes: Contemporary language: changes or distortions
34. PUNJAB NOTES: Don’t push the farmers too far!
35. Punjab notes: Puran Bhagat: an unusual tale from ancient times
36. PUNJAB NOTES: Welcome the return of Basant to Lahore
37. Punjab Notes: Baba Farid in English and folklore as mythology
2019
1. PUNJAB NOTES: Winter: little more than absence of summer
2. PUNJAB NOTES: Manzur’s autobiography: a chronicle of our near past
3. Punjab Notes: Translation: absence of quantity and quality
4. Punjab Notes: Myth of golden era: the past that never existed!
5. Punjab notes: Death: tears and cries alleviate pain
6. Punjab Notes: Rai Nasir and Hameed Razi: poetry and travel
7. Punjab Notes: Recent Aurat March: it sets tongues wagging
8. Punjab Notes: Expats: challenge of conflicting demands of different cultures
9. PUNJAB NOTES: Punjab’s Left and its alienation from people
10. PUNJAB NOTES: Sachal and Beckett: meaning and meaninglessness
11. PUNJAB NOTES: Freakish weather: local repercussions of a global crisis
12. Punjab Notes: Distorted psyche: DNA or social structures or both?
13. PUNJAB NOTES: Baba Nanak, the seer: a new poetic translation
14. Punjab Notes: Piro Preman: celebrations of spirituality and feminism
15. Punjab Notes: On campuses: Punjabi language and literature
16. PUNJAB NOTES: Invaders: fallacies regarding capitulation and resistance — Part-I
17. Punjab notes: Invaders: fallacies regarding capitulation and resistance — Part II
18. Punjab Notes: Waris Nama: Heer reinterpreted and made accessible
19. Punjab Notes: They treat state-owned property as enemy property!
20. PUNJAB NOTES: A.D. Aijaz: storyteller of Ravi and Harappa falls silent
21. Punjab Notes: Woman and semantics: cost of surviving without man!
22. Punjab Notes: Mian Muhammad, Dr Faqir and contemporary poetry
23. PUNJAB NOTES: Dulla Bhatti and Emperor Akbar: missing the big picture — Part-I
24. Punjab notes: Dulla Bhatti and Emperor Akbar: missing the big picture — Part-II
25. Punjab notes: Waris Shah: the world of power in his narrative — Part I
26. PUNJAB NOTES: Waris Shah: the world of power in his narrative — Part II
27. Punjab Notes: Bulleh Shah: beyond caste and its polluting touch
28. Punjab notes: Kashmir as reflected in Punjab’s imagination
29. PUNJAB NOTES: Amrita Pritam: a star all the way with undiminished brilliance
30. Punjab Notes: Books: prose and poetry, classical and contemporary
31. Punjab Notes: Language versus language: unending struggle for domination — Part I
32. PUNJAB NOTES: Language versus language: unending struggle for domination — Part II
33. PUNJAB NOTES: Colonial mindset that demonised Punjab’s language
34. Punjab Notes: Farmers: use of baton and corporate shenanigans
35. Punjab notes: Welcome winter which is less than winter
36. Punjab notes: Village: where have all the artisans gone!
37. Punjab Notes: Scholars and professionals on citizens and the city
38. Punjab Notes: Baba Nanak: looking from a non-religious perspective
39. Punjab Notes: Baba Guru Nanak: roots of our literary tradition
40. Punjab Notes: Books: Khwaja Farid in English and Azra’s autobiography
41. Punjab Notes: Language: alive and dead metaphors
42. Punjab Notes: Dr. Manzur Ejaz: a new narrative of Punjab
2020
1. Punjab Notes: Magazines: what’s new on literary horizon?
2. Punjab Notes: Post-colonial decay: neglecting the cornucopia of colonial practices
3. Punjab Notes: Dissent: power of logic or logic of power
4. Punjab Notes: Loneliness: life in quarantine for indefinite future
5. Punjab Notes: Language: development at the cost of cultural destruction
6. Punjab Notes: Lack of saving, ostentation and social prestige
7. Punjab Notes: Division of Punjab: no method to the madness
8. Punjab notes: From Lahore to Sahiwal: a highway to hell
9. Punjab Notes: Crisis: redefining the relationship between people and state
10. Punjab notes: What does afflict the earth: greed or disease?
11. Punjab Notes: After the deluge: something new or more of the same?
12. Punjab Notes: Sages: experience of dying before one’s death
13. Punjab Notes: Poetry and fiction: Ravinder Sehra and Tipu Salman
14. Punjab Notes: Everyday violence: tradition, law and social regulation
15. Punjab Notes: History versus nationalism: manufacturing the heroes!
16. Punjab Notes: Identity crisis: sense of worthlessness creates rootlessness (Part-1)
17. Punjab Notes: Identity crises: sense of worthlessness creates rootlessness (Part 2)
18. Punjab Notes: Tribes and castes: on disowning the indigenous roots!
19. Punjab Notes: Politics of colour: a black-and-white narrative?
20. Punjab Notes: Stories from the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh!
21. punjab notes: Sughra Sadaf’s stories and Javaid Kanwal’s verses
22. Punjab Notes: Banning books: dread of what challenges the unchallenged (Part I)
23. Punjab notes: Banning books: challenging the unchallenged (Part II)
24. Punjab notes: Bulleh Shah: undying crisis of multiple identities
25. Punjab Notes: Pilu from Dhun who composed Sahiban’s tale (Part I)
26. Punjab Notes: Pilu from Dhun who composed Sahiban’s tale (Part II)
27. Punjab Notes: Books: history of philosophy, translations and poetry
28. Punjab Notes: No to poetry reflecting the contemporary age!
29. Punjab Notes: Oldies, consumerism and happiness in a changed world!
30. Punjab Notes: It’s time to receive our seasonal guests!
31. Punjab Notes: Book: people’s history, cultural practices and resistance
32. Punjab Notes: Language and power are inseparably linked
33. Punjab notes: Baton and shells welcome our country cousins
34. Punjab notes: The man given to talking to trees!
35. Punjab Notes: Punjab sans Punjab: much in a name!
36. Punjab Notes: Ustad Daman: men in power had reason to fear him
37. Punjab Notes: Pandemic: hubris makes fragility unbearable
2021
1. Nadir Ali: the man who preferred sound to silence
2. Modern Punjabi poets and their loneliness
3. Punjab Notes: Rai Nasir with amazing stories from Sandal Bar
4. Punjab Notes: Distorting history for redress of historical injustices?
5. Punjab Notes: Law: is it meant to be broken?
6. Punjab notes: Mother Language Day: linguistic conundrum and its solution
7. Punjab Notes: Irshad Taunsvi gone: birds would miss him!
8. Punjab Notes: Culture as defined by our culture vultures!
9. Punjab Notes: Motherhood: Is defiant daughter ‘fire from the womb’?
10. Punjab Notes: Revival of film making: reality and ideology!
11. Madho Lal Husain: flame and flower
12. Punjab Notes: Culture that destroys nature and disregards history!
13. Nature of violence: the past isn’t past
14. Punjab Notes: Sarmad Sehbai’s plays: more than mundane nothingness
15. Punjab Notes: People’s culture: a sense of fellow feeling
16. Punjab Notes: On people who lived in floating cities
17. Punjab Notes: Names of cities and towns: splashes of water!
18. Punjab Notes: Loonaywala: the audio landscape that he painted
19. Allah Dita Loonaywala and the audio landscape he painted
20. Punjab Notes: Question: beginning and end of learning and knowledge
21. Punjab Notes: Fazal Farid Laleka: Bullah’s name and Khawaja Farid’s Masnavi
22. punjab notes: Hypocrisy: a way of life or a dark alley?
23. Punjab Notes: Notions of masculinity: religionists and mystics
24. Punjab Notes: Four wise men: the way justice is dispensed – Part I
25. Punjab Notes: Four wise men: the way justice is dispensed – Part II
26. Amrita’s Diary, Ghadar Movement and thematic poetry
27. Punjab Notes: Young men and crime against women
28. Punjab Notes: Wazir Afzal: His earthly music sounds ethereal
29. Punjab Notes: Books: Grammar, chronicle of poets and novel
30. Punjab Notes: Freedom struggle: Rai Ahmed still not owned
31. Overpopulation: our dog-eat-dog world
32. Punjab Notes: What can sustain us — agriculture and IT perhaps
33. Punjab Notes: Caste phenomenon: vestiges of Vedic times
34. Punjab Notes: Qadir Shaggan: Rubabi and Gwalior music traditions
35. Violence in the name of things higher
36. Punjab Notes: Dog and dog’s life: rewarding loyalty?
37. Punjab Notes: Guru/Murshid: the past weighs on the present
38. Punjab Notes: Books: translations, dictionary for kids and poets
39. Punjab Notes: Language: An elusive conduit for power struggle – Part I
40. Punjab Notes: Language: an elusive conduit for power struggle – Part II
2022
1. Punjab Notes: Teaching Punjabi: some money for it from public purse
2. Punjab Notes: Poets: why are they so many?
3. punjab notes: A poet’s life: the cost of defiance in suffering – Part I
4. Punjab Notes: A poet’s life: cost of defiance in suffering – Part II
5. Appearance: preparing a face that we prepare
6. Punjab Notes: Our cities reflect the primitiveness of modernity
7. Punjab Notes: Our linguistic diversity: enrichment or impoverishment?
8. Punjab Notes: Waris Shah’s 300th birth anniversary, his counter-narrative
9. Punjabi ‘Dhugga’ and its glorious history
10. Punjab notes: Madho Lal Husain: indigenous soul and joy of life
11. punjab notes: Stories galore – Javed Boota and Shahzad Aslam
12. Punjab notes: Folks in search of panacea for their problems
13. punjab notes: Books: Hameed Razi and Gurmeet Singh Sandhu
14. Punjab notes: History writing: self-created linguistic barriers
15. Punjab Notes: Survival: stop procreating and encroaching forthwith
16. Punjab Notes: New urban spaces: inbuilt social loneliness
17. Punjab Notes: Surinder Sohal’s poetry and Shagufta Gimmi’s compilation
18. Punjab Notes: Visa application centre: future full of promise?
19. Punjab Notes: Crowd: success, failure and fear
20. Punjab Notes: Books of poetry: Sarwat, Afzal and Saghir
21. Punjab Notes: Suicide: individual and collective
2023
1. Punjab Notes: Punjabi language and historical records
2. Punjab Notes: Abid Ameeq on language, he has a case
3. PUNJAB NOTES: Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers
4. Punjab Notes: Writing isn’t something natural
5. Punjab Notes: Expats, nationalists and double standards
2024
1. Punjab notes: They celebrate the death of their language
2. Punjab notes: Why can’t you be like them?
3. Punjab Notes: Happiness: things then and now!
4. Punjab Notes: Neelum’s novel and Bharomal’s folk songs
5. Punjab Notes: Disaster: Fertile land, population and filth
6. Punjab Notes: Happiness: women, children and working classes
7. Punjab notes: Naseer’s stories and Ibne Hasan’s writings
8. Punjab Notes: Naveed’s poems, Shabbir’s reportage and Javed’s stories
9. Punjab Notes: Damodar: Pygmies fail to measure the giant up – Part II
10. Punjab Notes: Vestiges of caste system and faith
11. Punjab Notes: Sufi poets from the land of soldiers
12. Punjab notes: Lahore: another Karachi in the making?
13. Punjab notes: Migration, racism and politics — Part II
14. Punjab notes: National history: our ‘this and that’
2025
1. Punjab Notes: Manzur Ejaz: swimming against the tide – part-I
2. Punjab Notes: Manzur Ejaz: swimming against the tide – Part II
3. Punjab notes: Water crisis in the land of waters
4. Punjab Notes: Baba Farid’s sublime poverty
5. Punjab notes: Old civilisation and uncivilised behaviour
6. Punjab Notes: In praise of the world
7. Punjab Notes: Lahore versus Karachi
8. Punjab notes: Short cut to control crimes
9. Punjab notes: Immigration and failure of multiculturalism
