The author is a Dublin-based Punjabi poet & essayist. He may be reached at sejal@mahmoodawan.com & Twitter @mahmoodah.
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...
