The author is a Dublin-based Punjabi poet & essayist. He may be reached at sejal@mahmoodawan.com & Twitter @mahmoodah.
There are few books written in Punjabi as comprehensive and wide-ranging as this
Zahid Hassan’s recent novel is a step forward in our literary linguistic struggle, an evidence of Punjabi fiction’s resilience and vitality, a...
Gurmeet Kaur left her technology career of 25 years to dedicate herself to her Punjabi publication and storytelling project for children
An encyclopaedic effort to collect Punjabi film songs from 1947-2006
Waris Shah’s Heer was not unaffected by colonialism
The epic as written and rewritten for over two centuries
Lal Singh Dil’s poetry has the power to connect both the Punjabs, and all Punjabis to their shared grievous land
Casting a fresh look at the only anthology of female Punjabi fiction writers ever published in Pakistan
A worth reading anthology and a welcome addition to Punjabi poetics
Ayub Awan made a conscious decision to write in his mother tongue and KeeDi da Aata was his first collection of Punjabi verse
A critical overview of the captivating, romantic and inimitable poetic genres especially from Lahnda Punjab
Romila Thapar debunks the socially-accepted belief that Muslims and Hindus were always antagonistic to each other, beginning with the Muslim arrival...
Aasia, a self-taught painter from Wazirabad, does works in the native idiom, with surreal simplicity, intuitive strokes, strong colours and a...
Birds, trees, native sounds, mountains and rural landscape are the soul of Raja Sadiqulla’s poems
The Punjabi Adabi Board has published an edited version of Qissa SahibaaN which is exceptional in detail and content, and raises some basic...
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 rejoinder of sorts that presents another case of The Other Punjab
Kahãni Quartet has set the stage for Saeed Bhutta to evolve into an authentic cultural historian of the land of five rivers
One of the most gifted poets of our time, Nasreen Anjum Bhatti stands tall among all the women Punjabi poets of her generation
Punjabi language and literature continued to thrive in spite of all the communal differences and colonial onslaught
