Basant Mela Event 2018 in Lahore, Rawalpindi: 3rd – 4th February 2018
Basant Mela Event 2018 in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad After 12 years of ban on Kite Flying in Punjab, Kite Flyers Association in...
Category: Culture
Sada Chirian Da Chamba: The Poignant Punjabi Folk Song for Rukhsati
Sada Chirian Da Chamba is a popular Punjabi folk song that is often sung at the Rukhsati event of Punjabi Weddings, which is the departure...
Alam Lohar and Arif Lohar: Keeping Folk Punjab Alive
Alam Lohar and Arif Lohar are artists that Punjab, the fertile land of 5 rivers, is known for. Alam Lohar was truly a people’s...
Chaapp Tilak Sab Cheeni: Hazrat Amir Khursu’s timeless masterpiece
Chaapp Tilak Sab Cheeni is considered as Hazrat Amir Khusru‘s most known Kalam which is basically a praise to his spiritual mentor Hazrat Nizamuddin...
A conversation with the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali
Calligraphy of Coils by Rehan Ansari and Rajinderpal S. Pal – A Conversation with the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali. If, as Edward Said says...
Abdul Rahman Ka Boya Hua Khajoor Ka Darakht – Allama Iqbal’s Poem in Andalucia, Spain
Abdul Rahman I was the founder of a glorious Muslim caliphate in Andalucia, Spain. An Umayyad general who was overthrown in Damasucs by the Abbasids, he...
Gender Equality: The Islamic Concept [Part 2]
In order to understand the concept of Gender Equity in Islam, first it is necessary that the social structure of a Muslim society must be...
Gender Equality: The Western Concept [Part 1]
Since the most vehement criticism of the status of women in Muslim societies comes from West, it is necessary that we explore the genesis and...
Malaysian Management Style: Brief Overview
In the changing times for the far eastern economies only one country has performed a task that is truly commendable in the real sense....
Mera Sahib – Afsana on Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah by Saadat Hassan Manto
Mera Afsana, an short Urdu Afsana by Saadat Hassan Manto, explores the esteemed character of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah as narrated by his driver...
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...
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...
