(main kuch cheezan pehla e sapashat kar dian…main kise religion ni changa mada prove karan lai nahi likh riha….eh oh cheez hai jo main notice kiti….te suni hai…te naale eh punjabi boli naal related hai es lai…dooji gal panje ungalan ikko jehian nai hundian…so exceptions are always there……..no offenses intended…)

shayad bahut controversial topic hai…par bahut suni sunai gal hai…kehnde punjabi sikhan di boli hai ?

khair main apni gal te aavan…tusi ik cheez notice kiti ? je nai kiti te jaroor dhiyan deiyo…punjab ch kinne non-sikh ghar ne jinna ne punjabi akhbar lavaya hai ? angreji nu te chad deo…sab de hindi lagia hona….hun ethe kehan aale eh kehange k punjabi akhbaran ch te kuch aaunda e nahi…uhna de ghare akhbar pata kihda lagia hunda ? punjab kesri ! hun main sharat la ke keh sakda k punjabi de sare akhbar (jagg bani nu chad de…main te uhnu hindi ch e ginda….) punjabi kesri naalo te change ne…

main pichli post ch gal kiti c tv baare…fer ohi gal duhra riha…sikh parivaran nu chad deo…..baki non-sikh gharan ch kinne k dekhe jande ne punjabi channels ? una nu te number ni pata hunda k punjabi channel aaunda kihde number te hai ? hun dasso ehdi ki explanation hai ?

hun gal karde a ghar ch cassetes di, CDs di…non-sikh gharan ch kinni wari tusi dekhia k koi punjabi cassete,CD dekhi hove ? mostly hindi movies diyan albums milangian….same haal cars da hai…uthe b…ehda ki jawab hai ?

khair main te gal karti…jo mainu laggi…hun tusi meharbaani karke doonge dil ton sochio jaroor te meri ik request hai k comment jaroor likhio tan ke sab de doonge dil de vichaar jaan sakiye asi….

thanks for your time…

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 ?

bahut wari, alag alag lokan naal punjabi bhasha te culture baare aksar meri gal hundi rehndi hai par aam ja jawab eh hunda “ki hunda ? punjabi chal te rahi hai” ehda ki matlab hai ? ki asi enne ujjad haan ? ya sanu kuch sikhaya hi nahi gia ? k culture warge vishe tak sadi soch hi nahi paunchdi…aksar mein sochda hunna es cheez baare te kuch swaal dimag ch aaunde ne:

1. sade ghar ch akhbar kihda lagia hai ? angreji, punjabi ya hindi ? main ethe dharam di gal bilkul nai karni chaunda kyoki eh blog sirf culture di gal karan lai hai par ik gal main jaroor kehni chahunga. kuch lok kehnde ne k punjabi sirf sikhan di boli hai…non-sikhan di boli te hindi hai. te ik hor gal shayad tusi dekhi hove main aj tak kise non-sikh de ghar punjabi da akhbar nai dekhia…(bahute honge…par main aam jehi gal kar riha) ehda ki kaaran hai….fer te eh gal sach ho gai na ?
2. jado tusi kade safar karde ho…bus ch ya train ch…raste ch banda akhbar jaroor khareed-da..kinne wari tusi punjabi da akhbar lai k parde ho ?
3. kinne wari tusi koi punjabi da novel/kahani book khreed k padi hai…te us to b waddi gal…tuhanu kinne k punjabi lekhakan de naam pata ne…kaun changa kaun mada likhda….kise b cheez da kinna k gyan hai ?
4. aj kal te main eh b sunda k mata pita bachian nu punjabi bolan ton rokde ne ? ehda ki karan hai ?
5. kinne wari tusi ghar ch kathe baith k punjabi TV channel dekhde ho ? mannian sare channels te koi enne wadia program na b aaunde hon…par eh khiyal kinne wari aya hai k main punjabi haan te punjabi da kuch dekhan ?
6. tuhade ghar ch punjabi diyan kinnian k cassetes & CDs ne ?
7. aj kal bahut sarian punjabi filman a rahian ne…tusi uhna cho kinnian dekhian ne ?
8. kinni wari tuhanu eh khiyal aaunda hai k main punjabi haan te mainu punjabi lai kuch karna chahida hai. matlab kinni wari eh ehsaas hoya hai k eh jo raula hai punjabi culture alop hon da…eho ji koi cheez hai b te sanu kuch karan di lod hai…

main umeed karda k jo b sajjan eh post pad riha hai ehna swalan bare jaroor sochuga…te je zyada jawab na ch a rahe ne te kuch efforts b karuga….