Puran Bhagat
Akshaya Kumar’s reading of Atamjit’s Pooran asks whether a modern setting gives its central character autonomy, offering one view of a changing tradition.
Sialkot and selected literary accounts
Culture · A guide to the archive
Stories, play and publishing
Explore storytelling, riddles, play, theatre, cinema and publishing through particular books, studies, reports and remembered encounters.
How to approach this subject
Choose a story or practice, then follow its paragraph citation. Notice whether the witness is a collector arranging tellings, a critic interpreting a work, a teacher proposing an activity, an artist recording a project or a writer recalling production. Ask what was actually inspected: a passage, a catalogue entry, an announcement or a complete work. Compare the records without turning one example into a rule for every place or period. Keep proposed activities separate from delivered programmes and dated holdings separate from present access.
An intentional selection
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Raja Rasalu traditions
Laila Rahman’s CV links a Rasalu illustration project with exhibitions in Lahore and Islamabad, documenting one modern visual afterlife of the stories.
Selected print and exhibition settings
Dulla Bhatti folklore
Discover Dulla Bhatti as a Punjabi folk hero remembered at Lohri, and compare accounts of his resistance, generosity and place in performance.
Selected Punjabi accounts
Punjabi riddles
Sukhdev Madpuri’s riddle collection groups clues around everyday worlds and prints answers below them, showing how a puzzle becomes a readable collection.
Punjab and Alberta
Punjabi proverbs in social life
A Chak Zahir study discusses 43 proverbs collected from five women, showing how household criticism and respect for mothers coexist in selected sayings.
Selected Punjabi research settings
Children’s games and counting rhymes in Punjab
A Punjab Educare lesson attributed to Sukhdev Madpuri describes changing play roles and everyday materials, showing what a game’s name alone leaves out.
Punjab; Calgary
Punjabi theatre history
Gunjeet Aurora’s study of Fida examines how absence, bodies and material surroundings communicate on stage, extending theatre history beyond written dialogue.
Patiala; Amritsar; selected stages
Punjabi cinema in India
Explore Punjabi cinema in India through post-Partition film circulation, changing screen conventions, archives and national recognition.
India
Punjabi newspaper history
Gulzar Singh Sandhu’s recollection of the Punjabi Tribune’s launch reveals editorial choices and newsroom negotiation within one account of newspaper history.
Punjab; Lahore
Punjabi magazines and little journals
Simrat Khurana’s study of Preetlari examines the tension between Swadeshi promotion and opposition to burning clothes, opening a history of editorial choices.
Punjabi publishing accounts