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Death
Silences "Voice of Punjab"
Aj aakhan Waris Shah noon
kitoon kabran wichun bool, (Oh Waris Shah! speak from your
grave)- wrote Amrita Pritum at the time of partition in
1947 when thousands of
daughters of Punjab mourned
the loss of their honor and the death of their brothers
and fathers. The Punjabi poem epitomized the massive
tragedy when the people of India simply forgot the people
of that they were human beings and not communal groups.
Ashes to Ashes and Dust to
Dust is the logical end of every human being, but some
Ashes are very fertile and they stay alive in fragrance.
The same is with Amrita Pritum who passed away at 86, by
her legacy of Unconditional Humanism 'will live in the
hearts of the people of Punjab. detail more |
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World Punjabi Congress
Punjabi is
spoken by millions of people in Pakistan, India, Canada,
USA, UK, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, UAE,
Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand etc and has been reckoned as
the 10th language of the world.
World
Punjabi Congress was established in Lahore in 1984 by
Punjabi writers, intellectuals, scholars with the
undersigned as its first chairman. The objectives of
this, promotion of Punjabi language, literature, culture
and the removal of cobwebs and distortions in the history
of the Punjab. It aimed at the renaissance of Punjab thus
leading to the resolution of crises of identity with which
Punjabis had been suffering for a very long period.
First
International Punjabi Conference under the aegis of WPC
was held in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1986 followed by another
World Punjabi Conference in 1992. Both of the conferences
were attended by hundreds of delegates from across the
world.
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