Punjabi
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Kohrra Season 2: Review
Bombay Badshah gives a spoiler-free recommendation of Kohrra season 2 on Netflix, calling it twistier and more technically accomplished than the first. He praises the cinematography, acting and multilingual dialogue,…
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Dead Poets of Pakistan
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s creative energy lies with a Westernised, English-fluent ‘boundary class’ outside patronage and power, and contrasts India’s confident, 80 per cent one-faith civilisational script with a Persianate…
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Dr Manzur Ejaz. 1949-2025
An obituary of Dr Manzur Ejaz (1949-2025), Punjabi writer and Marxist activist who died in Virginia. It records his belief that defending the Punjabi language is central to working-class politics,…
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Hero and other stories; The short stories of Nadir Ali
Omar Ali, admitting he is the writer’s son, recommends Hero and Other Stories, translations of Nadir Ali’s Punjabi fiction: snapshots of a vanishing Punjab with realistic characters and a quiet…
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Punjabi Short Story by Nadir Ali
Laid up with Covid, Omar Ali translates ‘Grapes’, a Punjabi short story by his father Colonel Nadir Ali, who wrote on Punjabi literature and culture for forty years. He notes…
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Baba Nanak Within Reach, by Muzaffar Ghaffar
Nadir Ali introduces Muzaffar Ghaffar’s Baba Naanak Within Reach, part of the series Masterworks of Punjabi Sufi Poetry, praising the translator’s long commitment to classical Punjabi verse and setting it…
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Book Review: Baba Nanak Within Reach, by Muzaffar Ghaffar
The reviewer, a long-time friend, praises Muzaffar Ghaffar’s English renderings and notes on Guru Nanak’s poetry as valuable but little known abroad, and reproduces a selection of Nanak’s poetry with…
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BP Episode 50: South Asian Subnationalism with Prof. Majeed
A BrownCast episode with Professor Majeed on linguistic sub-nationalism and Grierson’s Linguistic Survey, covering how regional language identity grew alongside communalism before independence, why India’s languages stay healthy, and how…
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Urdu as an intra-provincial link language
Picking up a reader’s point that Urdu binds ethnically diverse provinces, the author notes three Pakistani provinces have large linguistic minorities, discusses Pashtun expansion, the origin of the word vatan…
