Bulleh, the Beloved is hidden and sits aside

Another poem of Bulleh Shah with a translation KaoN aayaa pehn libaas kuRey tuseeN puchho biThaa ke paas kurey hath khooNDee moDhey kambal kaalaa…

Mystical power

Philip Jenkins writes why Sufi Muslims, for centuries the most ferocious soldiers of Islam, could be our most valuable allies in the fight against…

Bombay – Nostalgic shop owners refuse to change name

Read the captioned story in the Times of India today- politics of war mongering can be such a disruptive influence on ordinary lives. In…

Khowaja Fareed – The Mystical Voice of Southern Punjab

A friend, for the lack of a better term (why are we always hankering after labels and identities for some associations that lie beyond…

Khowaja Fareed – the Sufi voice of Southern Punjab

A special friend, for the lack of a better term (why are we always hankering after labels and idenitities for some associations that lie…

We shall overcome the trap of violence

As clouds of war hover in the skies of Lahore, I am missing Delhi and lamenting the relatively difficult venture to visit the city.…

Carlos Latuff’s artwork on Gaza

Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff creates artworks that call on the world to condemn Israeli brutalities in Gaza. Carlos Latuff’s statement: I’d like to beg…

Say no to war

Little did we know that the imminence of war between India and Pakistan would once again become a possibility, howsoever faint or misguided? The…