Tag: Punjabi

Language for language ?

March 29, 2008 / / 10 Comments

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 ?

kujh swaal…

March 28, 2008 / / 10 Comments

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….

oh bada be-lihaaz…

November 17, 2007 / / 1 Comment

A beautiful song by Surinder Kaur. I don’t know the writer’s name. You can listen to it here.

oh bada be-lihaaz ki kariye
bewafa da ilaaz ki kariye…

tere gam da b ki bharosa e
shai begani mizaz ki kariye…

daadhe vikhre ne pyar de painde
dil je na aave na baaz ki kariye…

kache ghadian ne paar ki launae
lagge ishqe nu laaz ki kariye…

tainu bhulna tan kujh nahi mushkil
jhalle dil da ilaaz ki kariye…

pata nahi dil nu kyon…

October 12, 2007 / / 4 Comments

Written by somebody unknown, I should call him ‘jhalla’.

pata nahi dil nu kyon bekarari jehi hundi hai
har wele sahan ch khumari jehi hundi hai
kuch tutte supne aj v,sanjida ho jande ne
uhna agge fer meri lachaari jehi hundi hai…

kai bujhartan paunda hai dil
jisde jawab mare hoye armaan a dinde ne, par
kuch na suljhe hoye sawaal akhan agge a khad jande ne
udon neend b meri udhari jehi hundi hai
pata nahi dil nu kyon bekarari jehi hundi hai…

har supne vich a baithdi hai kol mere
akhan naal akhan takra jandian
fer jad jee bhar ke dekh lainda haan main
uhdi rooh tak sharam-saari jehi hundi hai
pata nahi dil nu kyon bekarari jehi hundi hai…

dil da vapaar hunda loko sauda ghaate da
par has has loki laun baazian ‘jhallia’
koi samjhao ehna paagalan nu, k
ishq walian de din sirf chaar hassan de
baki sari umar bemaari jehi hundi hai…
pata nahi dil nu kyon bekarari jehi hundi hai…

S Bhagat Singh – the real Hero

September 28, 2007 / / 0 Comments

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…

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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.

Here is my salute to that great man who brought revolution in those times. Do visit a website about him called http://www.shahidbhagatsingh.org Carries some original photographs of him and his family and some hand writings.