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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. ...

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. ...

Comments Comment by Aman…. on 2009-08-14 23:29:56 +0530 Holy cow! 🙂 Well, what to say,Mr King seems to be a “pretty confident” sun of a gun 😉 . Challenge for him, can he make Oracle code bugfree 😉 ? Aman…. Comment by Vaibhav garg on 2009-08-15 11:46:47 +0530 hahahah ahaha LOL ROLF x100 There should be a law against all this crap Comment by Sidhu on 2009-08-15 14:14:29 +0530 Doode, i have something really useful for you: ...

While reading testimonials of people on Orkut, i always wonder how people can manage to write those sugar coated words and sentences. I tried it so many times but my little knowledge of English seems to end where that sweetness starts ;) . Anyways nothing much against it, i actually enjoy reading all that stuff. Just a thought that how people do that :D . Comments Comment by aman…. on 2009-05-01 14:24:14 +0530 Sugar coated, not all of them are actually that sweet. For a testimonial of this , read the one over my profile :-). ...

After dinner i went for a walk and thought about calling a school time friend whom i haven’t talked to since last 8-9 months. Oh man i don’t know how fast did that 1 hour go. we talked so much of old stuff. Our classmates, teachers, tuitions taken together and so much. It has been 10 years since i left the school. And it took us a while to recall the names of all the guys and places they belonged to. So much of fun collecting those old beautiful moments. Came to know about some other folks like what they are doing ? Some of them are married and even have kids :). It was a wonderful sweet 1 hour. Made my day ! ...

Today morning i opened my laptop and was checking BBC website and the first news was the great poet Ahmed Faraz is no more :( He died after a protracted illness. His ghazal ranjish hi sahi… rendered by Mehdi Hasan became a masterpiece. Faraz once said that Mehdi has sung it so beautifully that now it belongs to him. He will always be remembered for his great poetry. May his soul rest in piece. Here are few links to his poetry on one of my blog and urdupoetry.com ...

kuch lokan di sochni eh hai k punjabi bolan da matlab hai dooji bhashavan (sab ton agge na aaunda hai Hindi da) nu pare karna hai…par nahi…eh bahut waddi galat fehmi hai…na samjhi hai…punjabi bare lokan nu aware karan da matlab eh nahi k tusi hindi nu chaddo…ehda matlab eh hai k jithe 2 punjabi khade ne oh aapis ch punjabi bolan…kyo k uhna dona di madari zubaan punjabi hai…je oh hindi ch gal karan tan eh sharam naak hai…jithe dooja banda punjabi nahi hai..uthe tuhanu kise common bhasha ch gal karni payegi & uhde ch koi problem b nahi hai… ...

(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… ...

sade ghar TV bahut late aya te fer b cable nahi balke free wali dish jihde ch enne zyada channel nahi hunde…par sade ghar jadon b koi TV on karda tan sab to pehla jihde b punjabi channel ne oh la ke dekhda k ki a riha…so meri te aadat hai punjabi channel vekhan di…(bahut sharam aaundi hai…eh dassna painda….k haan main punjabi channel vekhda haan…..) so ese aadat karke ya punjabi prati kuch moh hon karke main agar kise de ghar ja ke v tv dekhan te remote mere hath ch hove tan hamesha main koi na koi punjabi channel la ke baith jana te mainu pata mera taste mada nahi hai..hamesha main koi changi cheez hi vekhdan…te sare loki bade hairaan hunde ne…te kehnde b ne…k ehnu hor kise channel da nai pata bas ahi 3-4 channel e pata ne ehnu…. ...