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First of all, Bulleh Shah Baba Farid and other Sufi poets wrote religious Islamic poetry. So obviously they will use some Arabic and Farsi loan words. Similarly if a Hindu were to write religious poetry in Punjabi he will most likely use some Braj/Prakrit/Sanskrit loan words. Your whole...

I have read poetry written by Baba Farid, Waris Shah, Bulleh Shah, Shah Hussain, their Punjabi was not as "persianised" to the extent of the modern Urdu`ised Punjabi of Pakistan has become. My own family is from west Punjab and when I hear my elders speak and I hear west Punjabis speak the...

In KPK, Pashto has official status, In Sindh province Sindhi language has official status, in Balochistan the Baloch language has official status. But in west Punjab, the Punjabi language has zero status. Punjabi parents feel proud to speak Urdu with their children instead of Punjabi. West...

You are giving too much attention to the Doabis who are about 16% of Punjab's population. So there are more Majhails in Punjab than Doabis. And I think Indian Punjab's Punjabi is more pure than west Punjab's punjabi which since partition has now become largely Urdu`ised and this has happened...

It's a false news nothing more. not worth taking seriously.

But one thing you need to accept is that Bulle Shah, Waris Shah and Baba Farid were living at a time when there was no concept of Pakistan. Punjab back then was one. These men are our common heritage. In the case of Baba Farid Jee, he is a religious figure for the Sikhs since his writings is...

If Jihadists from Afghanistan are now going to start fighting in Kashmir this could mean trouble. These are no ordinary fighters, even Americans with all their advanced technology and training could not beat these guys, how will Indian army do it? Just an honest question, don't attack me for...

Proves what a lot of people already knew about the congress party. They use terrorist tactics when it suits them.

It must be a case of a person who was originally from west Punjab but like millions of people, the singer must have settled some where in Malwa or Doaba and her descendants adopted the local accent. I wouldn't say it's a case of "can't pronounce words properly". They have their own way of...

It depends and to some extent you are correct. But Majhails who are located in Indian side of Majha account for 20% of Punjab's population and play a very dominant role. Even a large portion of Malwis and Doabis are descendants of people who settled in Malwa and Doaba after partition. Almost all...

well 20% of current Indian Punjab's population is located in Indian side of Majha. Millions of Punjabis from west Punjab settled in Punjab and other parts of India. For example. Delhi's Punjabis are mostly refugees from Pothohar region of Pakistan. Haryana's Sikh population is mostly people who...

Doabi and Malwi are both spoken along with Majhial. Majhial dialect is spoken in Indian side of Majha(amritsar, tarn taran and gurdaspur districts which border Pak-Punjab). Majhail is also the standard dialect of Punjabi and is taught in schools.

Indian media is really desperate for creating this type of BS news and presenting it on national tv. Doaba is the land mass between River Beas and River Sutlej Punjab. It is a small part of Punjab.

Bollywood movies and these music videos always show the hero eve teasing the heroin and the heroin welcomes it. When young boys grow up watching their favourite hero heroins promoting this moral degradation they will project this perverted behavior in real life situations thinking girls like eve...

The western historians always over estimate Alexander probably because he was a European. Asia has produced many such generals, yet they are largely unknown to the rest of the world. Raja Porus was a small Indian Raja from Punjab yet he gave a bloody nose to the Greek army. I wouldn't be...

It's good walmart is going away. Walmart is not good for small shop keepers. These small shop keepers are self employed people who feed their family because of their shops. Plus, Walmart would have imported cheap chinese products killing the local manufacturers.

I thought Nawaz Sharif is a Punjabi. His ancestral village is in Amritsar India before the partition happened. While Manmohan Singh is from Jhelum, Pakistan.

loss of life during partition is the biggest tragedy of Punjab. It could have been avoided or minimized had the British put enough troops on ground to stop the bloodshed. India today can learn a lesson from this tragedy by locking away any politician who tries to incite violence and sending in...

Nairobi attack: How I led trapped to safety Photo of Satpal Singh Satpal Singh said he wanted to help fellow Kenyans Satpal Singh was inside the Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi when gunmen opened fire. He describes how he helped to lead some of the trapped people to...

true. I have removed it