Two of my friends started a new website PunjabiFirst. As of now only blog has been set up. I am also one of the contributors. Soon we hope to put other content also. Do pay a visit ! http://blog.punjabifirst.com Comments Comment by Harvinder on 2008-09-09 07:39:01 +0530 Satsriakal, Mainu koi contact email address nahi labeya, so main request karni si je tusi mainu email karke reply kar sakde oh? Thanks!
(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… ...
kadi saleeb,te kadi birkh,te kadi dariya tu meri soch ch kis kis na shai da roop lia jado mein birakh san us pal tan ban saki na tu jado chirag main bania bani tu tej hawa tere te mere vichale nadi c raule di main apne geetan da pull bana nai sakia utha hi sakia, na tu dil mere diyan partan uhna de heth c tera hi naa likhia pia… ...
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: ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...