The Punjabi language version narrates the story of Izzat Baig, a prosperous merchant from Bukhara who falls in love with a potter’s daughter, Sohni, and by a series of fateful events becomes a buffalo ...

OF the famed love-legends of Punjab, the story of Heer-Ranjha is the most celebrated but perhaps most poignant and picturesque is the saga of Sohni-Mahiwal. This love legend has the Chenab river as ...

Sohni hangs on to her matka (earthen pot) as the voracious waves of the Chenab crash against her, waiting to devour her. The matka is her last refuge. That is the irony of the situation. Having found ...

Shahjada Ijjat Beg comes to India with his caravan and settles in a town in Gujrat. Here he falls in love with Sohani, who keeps a shop in metal pots. Ijjat Beg buys pot from her with whatever money ...

Kathak dancer Divya Goswami’s themed show ‘Aqeedat’ (meaning faith) was a tribute to love through the 18th century Punjabi poet Fazal Shah’s kissas. It was a poetic coming together of beautiful music ...

‘Sohni Mahiwal’ painted by Ustad Allah Buksh in 1923 references the fabled Punjabi romance of these star-crossed lovers and is a prime example of indigenous subject matter rendered in the 20th century ...

Shah Rukh Khan & Kajol Unveil 'DDLJ' Statue In London’s Leicester Square! To celebrate 30 years of the cult classic 'DDLJ', Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol unveil a bronze statue of their iconic characters ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...