28/01/2026
BaraMah 2025
Editors:
Zubair Ahmad, Amarjit Chandan
Editorial Board:
Mazhar Tirmazi, Salima Hashmi, Safir Rammah, Fakhra Ijaz, Mahmood Awan, Akram Varraich, Nain Sukh, Aamir Riaz, Ikramul Haq
Assistant Editor:
Tallat Naveed
Title:Gurbachan Kour,Malaya, September 1940.
Photo:Kulwant Singh Dhillon ( Amarjit Chandan ‘s archive)
Price:
RS:1000 USA: 25$ UK 20 £
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Likhtaan da Verwa
Ranjho Kheera Dowein Mein Haan — Sanjogi (Editorial) 9
Lekh:
Shahmukhi Punjabi grammar likhat di agli naslaan teek muntqali — Dr. Saima Shaban 11
Rabba mere haal da mehram toon, Kaafi Shah Husain — Dr. Lakhveer Lezia 18
Punjabi khandaan te baradari vich ghairat de maslay — Tahira Khan 27
Guru Granth Sahib, Raag Suhi, Mehla Pehla, Panna 764 — Dr. Asma Qadri 36
Yaadaan
Qissa meri hayati da — Sarwat Mohiuddin 47
Temple Road di Jim Paul: kujh yaadaan de jhaati vichon — Parveen Qadir Agha 52
Mazang diyaan sawaniyaan di kahani te yaadaan — Dr. Ikram-ul-Haq 56
Kahaniyaan
Happy Fathers Day Mom — Jatinder Randhawa 75
Warqay — Sara Sikandar 78
Shagnaan di chuni — Jasbir Kaur Maan 82
Kundli Maar — Talat Naveed 90
Virus — Jasveer Mangowal 95
Sarnaawan — Sameena Syed 106
Daaj wala Attachi — Naturedeep Kahlon 110
Bhaag — Dr. Saima Batool 119
3 Password — Balvir Kaur Rehal 124
Khand Khadona — Rakhshanda Naveed 129
Ahut Ruth — Gurmeet Panag 135
Getiyaan — Anjum Qureshi 147
Khanak — Jaspal Kaur 151
Kamra — Amber Husaini 160
Sargam Wohone Saaz — Dr. Rajpreet Kaur Benipal 168
Qabooliya vi keh nahin — Sameena Asma 183
Goddess (Devi) — Parvez Sandhu 189
Main chhutti te ja rahi haan — Arvinder Dhariwal 202
Bhala Aadmi — Tripta K. Singh 210
Hijr da Sek — Vipan Gill 215
‘Na Khizar Na Khwaja’ — Surinder Neer 228
Amber di Dholki — Surjeet Kaur 242
Sohna da Mitha — Parminder Kaur Swach 249
Ulthe( Translations)
Wada — Dr. Risham Jameel Paul 255
August 2026, tezaabi meenh peena ae — Sarwat Suhail 263
Dizri da bacha — Shagufta Gummi Lodhi 269
Kishti — Khalid Farhad 276
Nazmaan(poems)
Tehzeeb — Jasveer Kaur Mangowal 288
Bhagwen rang vich — Jatinder Randhawa 291
Mainu ukka hi samajh na aaya — Sonia Manjinder 292
Bhulekha — Manpreet Kaur Sahota 295
Milni — Shagufta Gummi Lodhi 297
Kis tarhaan jaroge mera (parshath / pichhokar) bhoomi toon vi — Mandeep Bhadaur 299
Agar Pichhar Kanj Mahar — Parveen Sajal 301
Tera mera rishta — Harpreet Kaur Sandhu 303
Dadi di ditti potli — Naturedeep Kahlon 305
Laal — Anjum Qureshi 308
Koi takka nahin laga — Jashanpreet Kaur Sidhu 311
Traffic light utte khari aurat — Kamlesh Mohan 313
Aashirwad — Parminder Kaur Swach 315
Jeeon Jogi — Surjeet Kaur 317
Aj ajihi ae — Sarwat Mohiuddin 320
Hazrat Rabia Basri da kalaam — Ultha: Dr. Lakhveer Lezia 322
Kitab Jhaat( Book Review)
Kanah de Balo’n (Shairi) — Sameena Asma 326
The Fragrance of Seven Colours — Talat Naveed 329
Niōndarā (Kahaniyaan) — Talat Naveed 333
Dware — Talat Naveed 336
Kujh watnaan di gal saeen das (Javed Jidi di shairi) — udiā bhaur thīā paradēsī , Zubair Ahmad 338
Javed Jidi: “Usay kehna ke laut a
