Punjabi

Today is S Bhagat Singh’s 100th birthday. So like every other such occasion, he is being remembered again. Politicians are throwing speeches, the same stuff: we aren’t following the direction shown by him…and all that… bhagat.jpg Bhagat Singh was right in saying that we will send the “white” out and you will see that “black” will be sitting. The very same thing has happened. The white left and came our very own called “black” by Bhagat Singh. Over the last 60 years after freedom, they have crossed all the lines, can do anything to gain something politically, a human is not human for them. And the new generation that is supposed to do something about it, bring some revolution is all the way busy in becoming another Michael Jackson, forget this desh prem and such stuff. ...

On Gurdas Maan forum, I got a link to a video on youtube. When I checked, it was a song by Sai Zahoor Ahmed, a sufi singer (or performer ?) from Pakistan. This man left home at the young age of 13 and started roaming the sufi shrines in Pakistan. He sings on ik-tara. He can’t read or write but has very good memory of lyrics. He was chosen best BBC voice of the year 2006. I just went mad about “sajna baajho zaat safatan ishq dian” video. Its just awesome. He is 60 years old and see him performing, totally lost in his work. It looks like he is directly talking to Allah. Hats off to these messengers of sufi gaayaki. ...

This is written by great Punjabi poet Amrita Pritam. Recently Gulzar saab has released an album “Amrita Pritam recited by Gulzar”. Its featured in the album. A must listen. You can listen it in Amrita’s own voice here on apnaorg.com oh mere dost mere ajnabi ik waar achanak tu aya tan waqt aslon hairaan mere kamre ch khalota reh gia… tarkalan da sooraj lehan wala c par leh na sakia… te ghadi k us ke dubban di kismat visaar diti… ...

I dont know who wrote these lines, got it from internet only. Beautiful… main bulbula c ik paani da do pal jee ke mukk challia main raat di akh da athru c suraj di kiran pai te main sukk challia aas rakhda c suhaane mausam di aj hanerian de vich lukk chalia ek supna dekhia c akh meri ne jihda adh vichale tut challia main jag rusa ke yaar manaya te aj oh b chandra russ challia… ...

Punjabis are famous for many things. On top of the list are their eating habits and being more specific Punjabis can’t control themselves when they see Paranthas.Many times I had heard about Paratha Wali Gali in Delhi but never got a chance to go there and try.One day I came to see Not Just Paranthas very near to our place.So we decided to go there. After going there we were given one 4 page newspaper sort of, that actually was a menu :) From there only we came to know that Not Just Paranthas was a copy of Paratha Wali Gali created in modern fashion.In the menu there were more than 100 varieties of paranthas out of which we could choose. After having look at everything we decided to go for Vesna Parantha stuffed with Gobhi,Pyaz and Paneer mix with curd. Believe me just an awesome taste. Then we had normal Gobhi Pyaz and Mooli paranthas.But it is bit expensive (infact more than a bit) Cost of that first parantha was Rs 80 per parantha (without any Curd/Butter). So I think not wrong to call it expensive !!! ...