The second issue of Baramah , an annual Punjabi literary magazine, was released online on 5 August, 2020 by the Lyallpur Young Historian Cl...
The second issue of Baramah, an annual Punjabi literary magazine, was released online on 5 August, 2020 by the Lyallpur Young Historian Club, in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. The launch was streamed live and guests attended from their homes in London, Lahore, Lyallpur, Ludhiana, and Windsor.
The zine is co-edited by Zubair Ahmed and Amarjit Chandan, and it is published from Lahore in the nastaliq script. The content ranges from scholarly essays to short stories and poetry; commentaries on painting, cinema, and music, to profiles, memoirs and interviews of writers and scholars.
Amarjit Chandan, who lives in London, edited the first ever revolutionary underground literary magazine in Punjabi called Dastavez (The Document) in the 1970s. He has been translating, writing, editing books of poetry and prose ever since and acts as a bridge between the writers and literatures of the West and East Punjab.
Lahore-based Zubair Ahmed is a retired professor of English literature who writes in Punjabi. In fact, a collection of his stories translated into English is to be published in Canada later this year. Chandan and Ahmed look after the magazine and also curate Kitab Trinjan, a Facebook page where they feature the works and profiles of Punjabi artists, writers and scholars.
Baramah’s 2020 issue...
