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Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana (4 May 1935–31 January 2020) is recognised as one of the most consequential Punjabi authors who substantially contributed to the development of modern Punjabi literature. Prior to her death, she published twenty-seven novels, seven collections of short stories as well as a literary biography. Tiwana was…

Translated from Hindi by C. Christine Fair Premchand is the pen name adopted by the Indian writer, Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880- 8 October 1936). He was a pioneer of modern Hindi-Urdu literature which focused upon contemporary social issues including caste, the treatment of women, day labour and other…

EDITOR’S PICK OF THE WEEK (As the editor’s pick for this week, this article will be available for free reading for a week) This story has nothing to do with Steinbeck’s novel “Of Men and Mice.” I wanted to give this story the title of “Me Versus the Rat” but the rat has devastated my…

With so many Pakistanis believing Imran Khan’s ‘Great Steal’, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will have little peace in office. President Donald Trump began to delegitimise the 2020 presidential poll months before the first vote was cast, just as he did the 2016 election. He told his supporters that in 2016…

Abstract: During the pandemic, many faculty have turned to online programs to invigilate online exams. The consequences of finding a student in violation of honor code strictures can have devastating impacts on a student’s career. Therefore, it is urgent that honor councils in universities that have adopted these panoptic surveillance…

About ‘Khol Do’: Saadat Hasan Manto first published this story in 1948 in a collection of Urdu short stories titled Black Margins (Siyah Hashiye). Following the publication of ‘Khol Do,’ and two other stories from this collection, he was charged with obscenity purportedly because these stories comprised a breach of…

March 24, 2002 In 1954, Dr. Brock Chisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), presciently declared that “without mental health, there can be no true physical health.” Some 68 years later, most citizens of the world’s largest and oldest democracies have inadequate access to mental health facilities…

Until American state and federal laws — and domestic law elsewhere — catch up to the realities of caste apartheid, the most vulnerable of Indian-origin persons will suffer India exports nearly $20 billion in pearls and precious stones, pharmaceuticals, machinery, electronic equipment, and textiles. …