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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. ...

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: ...

“waris bulle shah hussain jehe hashim kadar yara, ghar ghar vich tenu adab bakhshiya shayera te fankara, san santali(1947) vich hoya adrang tenu, pher na hoi tu pabba bhaar ni ! punjabiye jubane ni rakane mere desh diye. be-adabaan be-kadran ne kad kadar kise di payi, apni maan nu nangiyan kar ke lag paye khan kamai, puttan nu pada ke angrezi kaide asi, teri chikha kari bethe haan tayar ni ! punjabiye jubane ni rakane mere desh diye.” ...

A gem by Ahmed Faraz, in his own voice… [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qy6hAhbc8]

We need to save power :) Comments Comment by amritpal singh on 2008-07-30 08:56:03 +0530 eh kedi jagah yaar, jithe light utte nu kar ke layi a ? Comment by Sidhu on 2008-08-06 07:51:03 +0530 LOL…good catch…i guess it might have turned upwards…