Punjab

mother had decided that if she has a boy, his name would be Karan, after the great Hindu warrior in the most epic war of Hindu mythology, Mahabharata. Starting with my ethnic background, I was born in a city named Chandigarh in India. As I belong to Punjab, Punjabi is my mother tongue.…

The interview aimed to address the question of what role language plays in the ethnic identities of second generation immigrants. While there is a broad body of work on the subject of migration and language spanning several fields, including population studies and sociolinguistics, much of the associated literature is based on quantitative studies. For instance, Rumbaut (2012) used survey data to examine immigrant families’ language retention rates, while Cherciov (2012) and Medvedeva (2012)…

The Firm – KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co History KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co was formed in 1969, when the global accounting firm KPMG and Taseer Hadi joined hands to formally begin operations in Pakistan. International Affiliations KPMG was established in 1887 as a result of the merger between Peat Maverick International (PMI) and Klynveld Main Goerdeler (KMG) and their individual members. The name, KPMG, is taken from the initials of the four founding members of this firm namely, Piet Klynveld, William…

Very few people have changed the course of history. Even less have helped to create a country, yet Muhammad Ali Jinnah has done both. He was a lawyer, a politician, and he was the man who led the act of creating Pakistan, a country in South Asia. This astonishing performance happened in 1947, years after Jinnah wanted it to be reality. Jinnah had a large role in the creation of Pakistan and left a questionable legacy in the process. Years before, and during the creation of Pakistan, India was…

This essay will demonstrate the challenges faced by myself due to my self-identity and also the ideology of others cultures. It will provide an insight into how cultures are made up and how different they can be. My thoughts on others and how I have been taught will be addressed, it will explore and identify my knowledge of how I differ from others and the opposite. One of the first components that came to mind when identifying myself was the fact that I am Muslim. In recent years I have faced…

Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (Oxford University Press, 2014) C. Christine Fair, PhD., one of the foremost South Asian experts, has made Pakistan army the subject of her book: Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War. The overarching theme, resonating with all the eleven chapters in the book, depicts the Pakistan army as central to all the misfortunes befalling the country. Fair accentuates the overbearing presence and consequent ruinous decisiveness of the…

insane, vulnerable and ineffective. Sidhwa has foregrounded in her novel a number of socio-political issues pertaining to the Partition as it is the chief theme of her novel. The conflicting attitudes of the Muslim League and Congress, riots in the Punjab and its Partition and communal discord etc. are a few examples. The national, regional, racial, political, sociological and cultural issues form the foundation of her novels. Sidhwa has sensitively depicted the political angst and societal…

Chapter 1: Introduction All human beings possess a desire to communicate and connect with others and the extent to which language is used by them to establish these connections varies. At one side of the continuum the verbally disinhibited people give a quick expression of their feelings and thoughts but on the contrary the verbally inhibited persons are not quick to express their thoughts, they wait to express themselves, they are reluctant of giving quick response if they disagree, they have…

Among the Women of India that, the government released numbers showing that the cases of registered dowry deaths in India increased from 999 in 1985 to 1,786 in 1987. These numbers are “higher than those for deaths caused by terrorist activity in Punjab, which is considered the most serious threat to Indian national unity” (Bumiller 134). These figures represent only a part of reality; as these crimes are committed within the family, there are no witnesses, and the family presents them as…

Peanut, (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an herbaceous annual plant of the family Fabaceae grown for its oil and edible nuts. Peanut plants are small, usually erect, thin stemmed with feather-like leaves. The leaves are arranged in alternate pairs with leaf-like attachments near the stalk. The peanut plant produces yellow, orange, cream or white flowers which produce 'pegs', characteristic floral structures which sink into the ground to grow the pod. The pods could be reaching up to 10 cm (4 in) in…