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Gurmani Centre Scholar’s Punjabi Book wins the Syed Waris Shah Award
Zahid Hassan, research scholar at the Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature, has won the Syed Waris Shah Award worth PKR 200,000, which is awarded by the Pakistan Academy of Letters to the best Punjabi literary fiction of the year. The book is also the winner of the Dhahan Prize for Punjabi... -
Gurmani Centre Hosts Ongoing ‘Bazm-e-Ghalib’ Series
This Fall semester, the Gurmani Centre in collaboration with Gad and Brigit Rausing Library is hosting ‘Bazm-e-Ghalib’, a series of eight lectures on the renowned Urdu poet, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.Each lecture is led by a prominent scholar, who selects one of Ghalib... -
Gurmani Centre Scholar Wins Prize for Punjabi Fiction
Mr. Zahid Hassan, Research Associate at the Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature has been awarded the 2nd prize in Punjabi Fiction under the auspices of the Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Fiction, for his book "Tassi Dharti". The Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Fiction which will be awarded... -
Sara Kazmi: Punjabi at the Gurmani Center for Languages and Literature
Sara Kazmi on her new Punjabi Course at MGSHSS Sara Kazmi on researching Punjabi Literature at the Gurmani Centre -
Berkeley Urdu Language Program Students Share their LUMS Experiences
The Berkeley Urdu Language Program was launched in LUMS on August 27, 2014 and has been conducted yearly since then at LUMS. This is an intensive Urdu Language program for graduate students from the USA. It is jointly administered by the America Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the... -
Gurmani Centre Event Celebrates 250 Years of Heer Waris Shah
The Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature organised a talk on Heer Waris Shah. The speakers at the talk were Maqsood Saqib and Huma Safdar.The talk was organised to mark the 250 years since Waris Shah’s magnum opus, Heer was written in Malka Hans, Punjab. The speakers highlighted how...
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- Yaad Kae Har Har Paich
Intizar Hussain is a renowned name in contemporary Urdu. He was a writer of short stories, novels, a translator and a critic. He covered a variety of topics in his writings and has influenced new... - ‘Galli’
Ashraf Suboohi, who is a noteworthy sketch-writer, stands apart is his use of phraseology and the milieu he paints. In his excerpt on ‘Galli’, he talks about the culture that surrounds...
- Aziz Hamid Madni
Aziz Hamid Madni was a poet critic, predominantly known for his experiments with language and poetic techniques. Madni was born in 1922 in Raipur and later migrated to Pakistan where he worked as a... - Muhawaron Ka Masla
Muhammd Hassan Askari was a critic, translator, scholar and a writer. He is known to influence linguist of modern Urdu particularly by using his critic on Urdu literature. In the following passage,...
- Sufaid Aadmi ki Dunya
Sufaid Aadmi ki Dunya, is a short-story by Hasan Manzar, in which he has crafted a fictional character of a young boy who wants to break stereotypes and go against the flow. The boy tends to...