By Dr Amjad Parvez

Dialogue, interviews, sketches, meetings etc are means of not only taking the best out of a creative person but also go into depth of some burning issues for us to learn from the ensuing wisdom. That is what Tanzeela Arooj has accomplished by compiling and editing interviews, dialogues, meetings, encompassing the creativity of an intellectual […]

The moment the news of actress Sabiha Khanum’s demise became viral on June 13, 2020, hundreds of condolence messages started pouring in the social media. Every fan especially who are fifty plus and have grown with watching her performances on silver screen were nostalgic about their experiences. Messages poured in from within country and abroad. […]

Tariq Aziz died on June 17, 2020. He took normal breakfast at around 9:30 in the morning. He resided in his Garden Town residence in Lahore with his wife. He felt bad and asked his driver to give him injection as he thought that his sugar level was high. He was asked to wear a […]

By his name Shah Zaman Khan Afridiame, he seemed to be of Pashtun descent. That he was, only that he was born in Lahore in 1921 and spent all his life in Lahore. I was a child when his films started coming in from 1949 onwards. His first film in Pakistan ‘Hichkoley’ (1949) did average […]

Muhammad Asif Khan was one of the earliest seasoned Punjabi writers. He started writing in Punjabi language and literature from 1956 onwards. Till 1992 he had written a number of essays. Pakistan Punjabi Adabi Board published books titled Quaid e Azam – Soch Tei Siasat (1983), Punj Tare (1984), Nakhirey (1985), Azadi Maghron Punjabi Adab […]

I think I must have met Fakhar Zaman in Radio Station Lahore premises when he used to visit Shaista Habib, his fiancée. She and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti were dear friends and fellow producers. Then we came across at his forum World Punjabi Congress many times and his Model Town residence. I recall that his residence […]

It has been our experience to witness that there were some singers who sang very few songs but these songs remain imprinted in our minds. Pakistani singer SB John was one who sang ‘Tu Jo Nahi Hei Tau Kutch Bhi Nahi Hei’ in 1956 film ‘Savera’ in the music of Master Manzoor Hussain. More than […]

My very dear friend Dr Anwar Nasim, a molecular biologist and geneticist who was President of Academy of Sciences in Islamabad invited me about two decades ago where I met Muhammad Mansha Yaad. The common factor is that both Dr. Anwar Nasim and Mansha Yaad are writers and have received President of Pakistan’s civil awards; […]

Najam Hussain Syed is a renowned Punjabi writer, poet and critic. I came to know about him when Izzat Majeed, another Punjabi poet used to hum Shah Hussain’s Kafis in different tunes to what I had learnt at my PTV and Radio recordings composed by various music composers of that time. Izzat confided that these […]