The author is a Dublin-based Punjabi poet & essayist. He may be reached at sejal@mahmoodawan.com & Twitter @mahmoodah.
A recollection of Anwar Chaudhary brings all those wanderers and post-partition Punjabis to mind who grew up with high hopes of a just society
Every year’s Mother Language Day reminds us of the linguistic brutality and suppression of the state against Punjabi
Recounting the women poets of the undivided Punjab, a poetic history that lies buried under male monopoly
Afzal Tauseef, a progressive writer and columnist, fought too many battles, faced so many betrayals but never surrendered
No Shah Hussain, Rahman Baba, Shah Latif, Seamus Heaney or Pablo Neruda can console a parent. No art in the world can describe the pain and sorrows...
As WW1 centenary commemorations end, here’s the second and last part about the unique insight this war provided into colonial duplicity and local...
Irfan Malik’s diction and thematic experimentation may be western but his poetic sensibility is rooted in Punjab and he still belongs to his...
Looking back at the history of translation of classical, religious and modern Punjabi literature, as the world celebrates International Translation...
Amarjit Chandan’s poetry enriches and elevates; it’s a timeless travel not to be engaged in haste
Mazhar Tirmazi’s incredible poetry revolves around the loss and pain of relocation
An account of the Punjabi soldiers who became the cannon fodder of the colonising power in World War I, and the mournful songs and literature this...
Sangry has brought a fresh lingual and literary perspective and the current issue is a testimony to that
One language, two scripts, many religions and divided land; this is how the Punjabis had been decisively atomised by history. When the red clouds of...
The story began in Mian Chambers, 3 – Temple Road, Lahore in February 1998, when I was searching for books by Najm Hosain Syed. From Vanguard...
It seems unreal -- a legend, a folklore or storyline of a cliff-hanger -- that a Lucknow-born, Urdu speaking renaissance man leads a group of...
Babu Ferozudin Sharaf was the most-celebrated and loved Punjabi Poet of the 20th century. After the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, his poetry simply...
On July 12, 1972, Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz sent a letter -- the only letter he ever produced in Russian to his recently exiled,...
"He has not returned to his old Florence, even after having died" lamented Anna Akhmatova for Dante. It was a poet’s tribute to her fellow...
Those were the days in Russia when St. Petersburg cuddled Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolay Gumilev and Boris Pasternak in...
