Hey people. There are lots of authors who either wrote in Punjabi, or in English but about Punjab and being Punjabi. These include Khushwant Singh, Sadat Hasan Manto, Prem Chand, Amrita Pritam, Bulleh Shah.  :

I'll be posting some of the  quotes that I find pretty cool. : Please post any you like as well.




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"Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon"

Saadat Hasan Manto's "Letters to Uncle Sam"

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I found this one so funny when I read it that I never got over it :smile:

"Letters to Uncle Sam" are a series of very funny letters Manto wrote, addressed to Uncle Sam ( #Amreeka) in the early 1950s, that are witty, hilarious, and that punjabis all over the world can still relate to.

Here's the link for the third letter, from a series of four - for anyone that's interested :smile:
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/third-letter-to-uncle-sam/

"I want to live in Pakistan because I love this bit of earth, dust from which, incidentally, has lodged itself permanently in my lungs. However, I will certainly visit your country so that I can get my health back. Barring my lungs, every other organ in my body I will hand over to your experts and ask them to turn them American."

(Dirty old man)  :

Letters to Uncle Sam by Saadat Hassan Manto - the third letter :smile:

Read more: http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/third-letter-to-uncle-sam#ixzz3pxoQqqWA

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Dhanwad g
For sharing this I m very found of these things :happy:

Tuc paash di poetry padho :ok:
O v bhut vadia likhda c

Kirat di lutt ,Sab ton khatarnak nahin hundi
Police di kutt,Sab ton khatarnak nahin hundi
Gaddaari-lobh di muth,Sab ton khatarnak nahin hundi

Kapat de shor vich
Sahi hundia vee dab jaana,Bura tan hai
kise jugnoo di lo vich padan lag jaana,Bura taan hai
Sab ton khatarnak nahin hunda

Sab ton khatarnak hunda hai
Na hona tadap da
Sabh kujh sehan kar jaana
Ghar ton niklana kamm,
te kamm to ghar aana

Sab ton khatarnak hunda hai,
Saade supniaan da mar jaana

Excerpts from a poem “Sab ton Khatarnak” by a revolutionary poet Avtaar Singh Paash.He was killed by khalistani millitants in 1989.


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The headline would read: ‘Sardar Khushwant Singh Dead’. And then, in somewhat smaller print:

‘We regret to announce the sudden death of Sardar Khushwant Singh at 6 pm last evening. He leaves behind a young widow, two infant children and a large number of friends and admirers. Amongst those who called at the late sardar’s residence were the PA to the chief justice, several ministers, and judges of the high court.’

-Khushwant Singh about death at 21 years of age.

                               VERSUS

Here lies one who spared neither man nor God
Waste not your tears on him, he was a sod
Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun
Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun.”

-Khushwant Singh's self written epitaph in his nineties.