भारत – पाकिस्तान की अवाम को आपस में जोड़ते पंजाबी कलाकार

✍️Lieutenant. Preeti Mohan भारत और पाकिस्तान के बीच भले ही राजनीतिक तनाव और सीमाओं की दीवारें हों, लेकिन दिलों को जोड़ने का काम अक्सर कला और संस्कृति करती है। खासकर पंजाबी कलाकारों ने दोनों देशों की जनता के बीच एक ऐसा सांस्कृतिक पुल बनाया है, जो सरहदों से परे जाकर दिलों को छूता है। साझा … Read more

The changing face of religious demography

 A new study shows that minority population shares have grown in India over half a century, even as they have shrunk in the neighbourhood’s Muslim-majority nations Source: www.magzter.com An important study undertaken by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)—an analysis of the evolving status of religious minorities around the world—provides significant and renewed … Read more

Between Communal Discord and Constitutional Commitments: Understanding India’s Citizenship Amendment Act

✍️Yash Tanwar (Delhi) The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has emerged as a contentious issue, since some describe it as a Communal instrument employed by the Indian government to further its political objectives. This story, which is being spread by a Islamic Propagandist, seeks to defame India’s Constitutional structure abroad. The main claims in this dispute … Read more

Kashmir, Small Steps to Normal

✍️ Akasha Usmani With record tourist footfalls, and even new cinema halls (once banned by terrorists), the Kashmir region of India is back in business.  Once places like Pulwama and Shopian in the southern regions of the valley of Kashmir, which has seen more than three decades of violent separatist insurgency, were known as the … Read more

Pelosi’s visit spurs Chinese discussions on a two-front crisis

✍Antara Ghosal Singh India’s muted response to the United States (US) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recently concluded Taiwan visit has been an issue of intense discussion within the Chinese strategic community. Chinese observers note that after Speaker Pelosi’s controversial Taiwan trip, many countries have chosen sides. For example, countries like Russia, Belarus, and North Korea … Read more

Do You Know ? Urdu is not the first language of majority of Pakistanis

Pakistan is land of many languages, with estimates on just how many ranging from 70 to 90. While Urdu is Pakistan’s national language and lingua franca, only 7.08% of Pakistanis speak it natively. The other 93% of Pakistanis have a different mother tongue, with Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, and Saraiki all having more native speakers than … Read more

बलदा कश्मीर: वेदप्रकाश लाम्बा

✍️ वेदप्रकाश लांबा  ९४६६०-१७३१२  अनेक ऐसे मित्र हैं जो पंजाबी भाषा जानते हैं लेकिन, गुरमुखी लिपि से परिचित नहीं हैं। उन्हीं के लिए यह पंजाबी कविता देवनागरी लिपि में प्रस्तुत है कश्मीर की स्थिति पर टिप्पणी यह कविता आज भी उतनी ही सामयिक है जितनी २०१५ में थी : अग्ग लग्गी ऐ लोको चिनार नूँ … Read more

आत्मघात: वेदप्रकाश लाम्बा

✍️ वेदप्रकाश लांबा  ९४६६०-१७३१२  माँ दुखी हैं। माँ बहुत दुखी है। सीलन और दुर्गंध माँ के कक्ष में पसरी पड़ी हैं। पवन सहमी-सहमी सी उस कक्ष में आती तो है, परंतु लौट नहीं पाती। उस कक्ष से बाहर निकलने का कोई छिद्र, कोई मोखा अथवा कोई वातायन है ही नहीं। माँ की स्मृति में सूरज … Read more