main ik wari pehla b spokesman cho ik article post kita c jithe lekhak ne gal kiti c k chandigarh ton delhi aaun wali shatabadi ch koi punjabi akhbar nahi hunda….es wari main eh cheez khud dekhi…..aitwaar savere di shatabadi te main chandigarh to delhi a riha c…pehla chandigarh railway station te ja ke main tur fir k dekhia kite b punjabi akhbar nai mil riha c…train chal pai….uthe jado akhbar den wala aya te main kiha koi punjabi da akhbar hai..kehnda nahi ji..fer mere ton agle bande ne b punjabi da akhbar puchia…

hor kise di avaaz nai suni mainu…sab angreji mang rahe c…

te mainu ni lagda k kise da es cheez wal kade dhiyan b gia hona k sanu punjabi akhbar b dene chahide…te eh b nai pata k kise nu sujha den da koi faida hai ya nahi….

main railway di website te dekhunga je kite kuch hove tan…

rab khair kare…

A friend of mine raised a concern that when you are promoting Punjabi language and culture why the language used is English ? It should also be Punjabi. Well I fully agree to the fact. If we are promoting Punjabi, the very first thing is that the language used for that promotion campaign has to be Punjabi. No second thought here.

Now another thing that bugs me a bit is that some percentage of Punjabi people (pretty good portion, I guess) cannot read Gurmukhi (That is why I am writing this post in English). So if we write in Gurmukhi aren’t we missing them as a target of our message ? They won’t be interested in trying to read this.

So is this a trade off ?

What is your say ?

How we should do it ?