بانو آپا سے وابستہ میری یادیں – Bano Appa Se Wabista Meri Yaadein – By Zahir Mehmood
بانو آپا سے وابستہ میری یادیں یہ مئی ٢٠١٦ء کا پہلا ہفتہ تھا اور گورنمنٹ کالج یونیورسٹی لاہور کا ڈرامہ فیسٹیول پوری آب و تاب...
Category: Culture
Public Speaking And Cultural Differences
How we communicate, in speech, writing, or through gestures, can be misunderstood by people from different cultures. A newcomer to a culture usually learns...
Headache and Heartburn: By Almira Adara
Beant Singh: New York City cab driver. Sitting behind him in the taxi, I read his name off the little identification card carefully pasted...
Allama Iqbal letter to Atiya Faizi [Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin]
Excerpted and translated from: 101 Masterpieces of Allama Iqbal’s Letters. (Allama Iqbal kay 101 Shahkaar Khatoot); Compiled by Abdul Rabb Qurayshi [Beacon Books, Lahore,...
Ravi Magazine interviews Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan
Interview with Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan Our music industry has many rock-stars and many Ustaads of classical music. But then there is one and only...
Bano Appa [Bano Qusdia], another famous Ravian, passes away
Bano Appa [Bano Qusdia], another famous Ravian, left us yesterday. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un إِنَّا للهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ. Ashfaq Ahmed and Bano Qudsia...
Purana Jhoot پرانا جھوٹ – Urdu Poem by Kawish Abbasi
پرانا جھوٹ پُرانا سچ پُرانے جھوٹ سے گَھل مِل گیا ہے اب تو جیسے جھوٹ بھی سچ بولتا ہے شہد زہر اور زہر شہد ایسا...
MSc. Thesis on Software Development, Organizational Knowledge, and Outsourcing – By T. Silva
Introduction It is almost trite to state that software development is a knowledge intensive activity (Robillard 1999; Desouza 2003). After all, the construction of...
A Conversation with Om Puri in New York City – By S. Ansari [2001]
Mr. Puri was touring with his film East is East It is 10 Am and I have been waiting for at least an hour...
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Hand Written Letter
Ravi Magazine is an immense admirer of study of handwritten scripts , an art known as graphology, see Allama Iqbal’s Handwriting. With courtesy of Tahzib-ul-Akhlaaq, we present...
Jimmy Engineer paints Javed Nama – Dr. Allama Iqbal greatest Persian Masnavi
In the forward of Javed Nama, Dr. Hamid Yazdani, translator of Farsi Iqbaliaat, documents that Allama Iqbal had a desire to have his greatest Farsi...
آوازِ نسواں: شرمین عبید
صائمہ حسیب اگرچہ ہم آسکر کا نام تو سنتے رہتے تھے۔ لیکن اس لفظ کی مسلسل تکرار اس وقت سننے میں آئی جب شرمین عبید...
Effects of Sufism on Persian Literature [Farsi Adab Per Tussawaf ke Asaraat] – Dr. Hina Ishaq
Effects of Sufism on Persian Literature [Farsi Adab Per Tussawaf ke Asaraat] – Urdu Article from Dr. Hina Ishaq Dr. Hina Ishaq contributed this article...
Zia Mohyeddin: The Master of Urdu Literature Recitals
When it comes to Urdu Literature Recitals as an art form, Zia Mohyeddin stands in a league of his own. Mastering the art of delivering each word...
Poems from Prison by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mahmoud Dervish & Nazim Hikmet
I always thought that Faiz Ahmad Faiz owed a “Thank you” card to his Imprisoners. Just like that Pablo Neruda should have done the same to General Pinochet, Nazim Hikmet...
Creation of Hindu ’Madrasas’ – By. R. Talib
(Text of a talk on “Saffronization of Indian Education” given at the YMCA, New Delhi) I am neither an educationist nor an expert on Hindutva....
Growing Up In Old Lahore : Chasing Used Books – By Ali Farhad
I grew up in Androon Shehr (old city) of Lahore in the 1980s. Most of my childhood and teenage years were spent in my Nana...
Faiz’s Ek ‘Rahguzar Par’ Poem and GCU Lahore
Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s extremely early ghazal ‘Ek Rahguzar Par’ could very possibly be a poem he penned at GCU Lahore, probably inspired by the...
Remembering the Genius of Parveen Shakir: Two poems for her Son
Parveen Shakir, besides being the most prominent poetess of Pakistan, was also renowned for her academic merits par-excellence and civil services. She was Fulbright Consortium Scholar at University of Saint...
Surr Mangay – Instrumental by Khumaariyan, The Sound of KP
Surr Mangay – Instrumental by Khumaariyan, The Sound of KP In the recent sounds to emerge from the beautiful KP province, Zeb and Haniya certainly...
No Honour in ‘Honour Killings’ – Die Fremde, Feo Aladag’s film review
No Honour in ‘Honour Killings’ Die Fremde, Feo Aladag’s film which tells the heart-rending tale of a Muslim German woman of Turkish descent, named Umay....
Maut Ka Kuwaan (Well of Death) – By Rozaiba
Maut Ka Kuwaan (Well of Death) – By Rozaiba As he lay dying, Maulvi Assadullah sensed that the angels on his shoulders had grown impatient...
Dr. Javed Iqbal lecture on Javed Nama
Javid Nama, Iqbal’s most remarkable Persian masnavi, ranks among the most influential Farsi books ever written, standing in the same league of Rumi’s Masnavi, Saadi’s Gulistan and...
