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Seraiki Tay Punjabi Dhoon Zubana (Aslam Rasoolpuri)
Pathana Khan… The Soul Of Rohi
In one of his interviews, he said his parents had originally named him Ghulam Muhammad. Once when he fell ill, someone said that the name was too heavy for the child and he should be given some lighter name. He was, thus, named Pathana Khan. Pathanay Khan was born in 1926 in village Basti Tambu… Read More Pathana Khan… The Soul Of Rohi
Seraiki Wasaib
The story of Wasaib.com starts from June 2001, when we launched Seraiki.com (the first website on Seraiki language & culture). The website name was later changed to Seraiki.org due to some issues with the hosting company and we went offline for almost two years due to some other priorities. Wasaib.com is an effort to promote… Read More Seraiki Wasaib
Seraiki Language and its Poetics
By Hassan N. Gardezi (The following article is extracted from the translator and editor’s introduction to ‘Tenement on Sand’, (Sunjian Saalheen) an English translation of selected Seraiki poems of Syed Hassan Raza Gardezi ) Seraiki is an Indo-Hittite, and therefore an Indo-European language, with its original pre- Islamic word-hoard deriving largely from the three stages… Read More Seraiki Language and its Poetics