History
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History of Punjabi Language & Gurmukhi Alphabet
Punjabi is one of India’s 22 official languages. It is spoken by over 100 million people worldwide. In Pakistan, the…
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Halani, where the Kalhoras and Talpurs battled for power
Nothing is left here except certain ruins, as the concerned antiquities department of Sindh has utterly neglected this historic site,…
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Ukraine and Russia’s History Wars
It is not just the country’s land which is being tussled over. It is the country’s past as well. If…
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How American Culture Ate the World
Sometimes the attention cast toward American culture comes at the expense of foreigners knowing about their own countries. By Dexter…
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Painting the fall of Sindh: Depictions of the Battle of Miani
Why our own art schools have ignored this aspect of art. None of the art teachers have focused on historical…
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General Charles Napier and the Conquest of Sind
Napier had remarked later to Burton that the Mizra “did as much towards the conquest of Scinde as a thousand…
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Jhalkari Bai: A Warrior of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
When the 1857 revolt started, the rulers were mostly interested in just saving their thrones and it was not a…
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Who was Alphonso?
Portuguese General Alfonso de Albuquerque sowed the seeds for a new variant of mangoes, which were then exported to Europe.…
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Poems and Stories by the Jewish Children of Kharkiv, Ukraine
A language in the process of revival needs speakers, young speakers most of all: nursery, kindergarten and school age children,…
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The Two Russias
We have two different Russias. One is that of Tolstoy, Pasternak, V. Soloviev, and Chekhov, which stresses peace, love, and…
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