Demystifying Punjabi stereotypes - 2

Read Part 1 - Punjab is a very rich state ! Punjabi music is all about beats ! Thankfully it is not. What you get to see is Bollywood’s use (use as exploiting something; i say use because Bollywood includes Punjabi songs in a movie to make the album hit not to promote Punjabi music) of Punjabi music. Far away from that adulterated stuff you get to hear there exists some beautiful Punjabi music of so many different genres including dance numbers, sad songs, spiritual poetry and so on. ...

November 19, 2014 at 11:20 AM · 1 min · 106 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Demystifying Punjabi stereotypes - 1

Most of the stuff that non Punjabi’s know about us Punjabis is typical stereotyped stuff shown in Bollywood movies and Punjabi songs. Most of it is some non-sense wrapped around “balle balle” as if dancing is what Punjabi’s do all the time. So thought about doing some posts telling the reality instead of what is being shown on small or big screen. How it actually started was that once I drafted a post explaining that how in Punjab there live people of all religions, not only Sikhs as a lot of non-Punjabi’s seem to think. But this post remained in the draft for months. Then last week a colleague in office was talking about something similar. From there an idea struck me to write about multiple topics related to Punjabi stereotypes. In each post I will try to talk about one topic (or more if they are very closely related). The posts are not going to be very very detailed but would briefly talk about the subject. You can add your criticism/views/corrections of any facts in the comments section. Some of the posts might be ridiculously short but length isn’t really the important thing here. Important is to make the point about some issue that we are seeing around us. ...

November 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM · 3 min · 535 words · Amardeep Sidhu

alwida Paras saab

Karnail Singh Paras saab sade darmiyan nahi rahe. 28 Feb nu oh es faani sansaar nu alwida keh gaye ne. ik beshumaar keemti den hai uhna di Punjabi sahit nu. kavishri nu ik nava rang, roop te darja ditta. Punjabi sahit naal judia rehan wala sahyad e koi banda hove jihda una de kalam da jaadu dekh ke ash ash na kar uthia hove. sahit to ilaawa uhna di ik hor waddi den Punjabi nu Harbhajan Mann & Gursewak Maan de roop ch…bachian wangu dona nu paalia te sikhaya. Harbhajan aksar gallan karda interviews wagaira ch k kive oh sanu dasde c stage te khade hon baare, mic faran baare, shabdan de shudh ucharan baare te jado hek launi tan kive baanh uchi chakkni. te nateeja sahmne hai Harbhajan di kabaliyat har taran de geet gaun di. ...

March 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM · 2 min · 364 words · Amardeep Sidhu

PunjabiPortal

kuch time pehlan main ik online punjabi forums website join kiti http://www.punjabiportal.com .us time ton baad main lagtaar uthe likhda riha haan. kal website di pehli saal-girah te ik magazine kadia gia hai KUKNAS ( http://www.punjabiportal.com/kuknas ) filhaal flash version ch availabe hai online. baad ch pdf b release kiti jaugi. bahut hi alag cheez hai. sare members wallo contributions. edda sohna design shayad pehli wari kise punjabi magazine da banaya gia hai. website & magazine jaroor check karna. mainu poora yakeen hai k tusi pasand karoge… ...

February 1, 2009 at 12:09 PM · 1 min · 87 words · Amardeep Sidhu

asin mangde haan khairan subah shaam...

bahut lamme arse ton main kuch b post nahi kita. aj youtube te search kardian kardian ik video milia Indo-Pak games te Surjit Patar saab da kalaam. vekh ke rooh khush ho gai. sochia eh video jaroor post kita jaave. Punjabi kavita de husan di ik behtreen wanngi. jihde lokan nu sharam aaundi hai eh kehnde hoye k asin Punjabi haan, eh video jaroor vekho shayad kuch asar ho sake. Surjit Patar saab…sada maan… ...

November 22, 2008 at 11:48 AM · 1 min · 193 words · Amardeep Sidhu