Meaning Of Punjab

Punjab is a land of five rivers flowing in North West India and North East Pakistan. Punjab = Punj + Aab. Punj means five and Aab means water, so Punjab means five waters. These five rivers flow through our state, having their originating source at various lakes in Himalayas. Five rivers are Beas, Sutlej. Ravi, Chenab, Jhelum. Beas and Sutlej merge into one river retaining the name Sutlej at Harike near Ferozpur in Punjab just before crossing the border into West Punjab (Pakistan) and eventually merging into river Indus.

Beas River



Chenab River



                                                                     Jhelum River



                                                                        Ravi River


                                                                          Sutlej River

Area between Beas and Sutlej is called Doaba. Major cities of Punjab are Amritsar, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawan Shahr, Ludhiana etc. Majha is between Beas and Chenab and on both sides of Ravi, Majha is the Heart of Punjab and cities includes Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Siaalkote, Kasur, Faridkot and Ferozpur.    In Majha part of Punjab many new cities were developed by converting the forests into cultivating land and is called Bar, cities include Lyallpur (Faisalabad), Montgomery, etc. Area beyond Chenab river in North and around river Jhelum is called Pothohar, cities include Rawalpindi, Hassan Abdal, etc. Area between Ravi and Chenab river is called Rachna doab cities are Gujarat, Sargodha, etc. Area of Malwa is southern Punjab facing Rajasthan and East of river Beas, cities include Ludhiana, Patiala, Ambala, Karnal, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Shahabad, and Abohar.

Punjabi Civilization is one of the oldest on earth, with its distinguished language, culture, food, attire, script, folklore, people etc. People living in Punjab are called Punjabis and language used by Punjabis is Punjabi. Some reliable resources tells us that our Punjab is 2450 years old.

Punjabi Culture

Punjabi has been the constant point of interaction from people of various languages, customs cultures, and races throughout the history. All these people came to Punjab for different reasons. These immigrants have influenced the Punjabi culture a lot in more ways than once.
 
Punjabi Music-
                               

Punjabi music is very rich and dynamic in its essence. Bhangra is regarded as one of the many Punjabi musical art

forms that is widely popular not only in India but across the world among the punjabi and non Punjabi audience. Punjabi music is used by western musicians in various ways.

Punjabi Cuisine -

Punjabi are famous or their taste of food and Tandoori chiken is regarded as the most popular dish in Punjabi Cuisine. Punjabi cuisine provides a wide array of dishes and is unique in its own sense.










Punjabi Poetry -

 Punjabi poetry is world famous for its amazing rendering and deep meaning words. If one needs to understand the Punjabi Culture, one should understand the Punjabi poetry as it reflects the mindest of Punjabi heartland.

Punjabi dances-

Punjabi Dances are very popular and they rich in their diversity and variations. Some of the highly famous dance forms Bhangra, Gidda, Luddi, Julli, Jhoomar and others. These dances are performed during times of celebrations such as harvests, festivals, and weddings. Some of these dances can be non religious and religious.







Punjabi wedding traditions -

Punjabi wedding traditions and ceremonies are a strong reflection of Punjabi Culture. The actual religious marriage ceremony differs from one religion to other; however these weddings have common resemblance in ritual, song, dance and dress

Mallika is an Indian Actress. “Mallika” is her stage name. She also played in a tele-serial called Anjali.  

Her actual name is Reeja Venugopal.  She was born in Johnson and Reetha at Thrissur in Kerala. They are three sisters. The elder sister is Roshni. She is married and is settled in Italy. The name of the younger sister is Rinku. She is still studying in school. 

Mallika has acted mainly in Tamil feature films. Her first film was a Malayam film Nizhalkuthu in the year 2002. Her role in that film was of Mallika. The next film where she acted was a Tamil film “Autograph”.  She played the role of ‘Kamala’ in this film. She won the Filmfare award for the Best Supporting Actress.  She also played in a tele-serial called Anjali.  In the year 2012 , she won “Special Mention from the Jury”  for the film  Byari where she played the role of Nadira. It was the first ever feature film which was made in Beary language. In the year 2013, she won “Kerala Film Critics Association Awards” for Second Best Actress.

She has mainly acted in Tamil and Malayalam Films. The name of some films where she acted is “ Nizalkuthu”, “Autograph”, “Mahanadigan”, “Naa Autograph”, “Nerkku Nere”, “Thirupaachi”, “Kundakka Mandakka” , “Thirupaachi”, “Unakkum Enakkum”, “Thotta” etc.

        Beautiful Navina Bole is an Indian television actress and also a model. She was born on October 30, 1983 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The talented 30 year old graduate received a degree in commerce and is a trained Bharat Natyam dancer. Navina started her career with modeling then appeared in a lot of television commercials for brands like Fair and lovely, Fair one, Chevrolet and Nokia. She’s also best known as playing the role Of Diya Bhushan in the college romance, Miley Jab Hum Tum. Navina was a runners up in Gladrags 2006 and won the Ms. Elegant title. On the other hand, Navina loves reading, solving crosswords, surfing the net, gym, Indian classical music, watching movies, dancing and occasionally partying.

         Bole came on television shows such as: Lucky, C.I.D. as Various characters, Na Bole Tum…Na Maine Kuch Kaha as Koyal and has also done music videos for Jagjit Singh, Ghulam Ali, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash and much more. However, the smart aggressive celebrity knows what’s best for her. Politically correct and to the point, she radiates positive energy to people around her. Therefore, she has the looks, talent and that special knack for making news at regular intervals and hence is referred to as the tabloid queen of South Indian cinema

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Puriyaamal Pirinthom is tamil television serial by Radaan Media and it is telecast on Sun Tv. Kollywood actresses Raadhika Sarathkumar and Renuka, alongside other Vasantham artistes. Two stories, two ladies... Priya and Dhivahar, they are a sweet, loving couple who love with one’s entire heart and with soul each other. Their happy marriage comes to a halt when their beloved daughter dies. Priya strongly blames Dhivahar for her daughter's death. Priya blamed that, because of Dhivahar’s careless behavior caught them their doughter. So, Priya makes a strong decision to divorce to Dhivahar. Dhivahar tries to prove her difficult times that their doughter’s death was the result of an unfortunate accident. Dhivahar doesn’t want divorce from Priya. He still loves Priya and wishes to live a happily with her. But he is not able to convince and change Priya’s mind. Now the story is focusing on Priya and Dhivahar will get divorce or not. But Priya strongly oppose his husband Dhivahar. Dhivahar always get chance to convey her wife, that all was happened is just an accident. But Priya doesn’t accept it. She always blamed to Dhivahar for their daughter’s accident. She wants divorce from his husband. The story is about whether they get divorce or not.

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Ponnunjal serial is aired on Sun TV. Ponnunjal is a story of a struggling woman who brings up girl child. She was also thrown from her husband's house. After throwing out of the house her struggling period has started. The story focuses on how she faces many difficulties and problems. She tried to work in construction, where her health condition weakened. Later Anushka came to her life; she gave her job in company as receptionist. She done very good job there. She made lot of friends. She tried new job after that, which worked really well for her. She fought against all these whatever troubles and problems she faces during her journey. But she alone faces all this troubles herself against society. Where ever she went trouble was following her. She tried to find solution for all her problem by her own.

She has raised her child Rupa very well. She tried to get her in good school but as Rupa’s father was not in her life, all opposed her. This serial completed its 200^th episodes recently. This show became very popular because of its story. People liked it very much and waiting for its second sessions arrival. The actor of this serial got many opportunities in many serials and in Tamil films also.

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The story is about between two cousions i.e. Revathy and Jyothy. Revathy who loses her parents when she is very young and then grows up in her uncles’s home. Revathy and her uncle’s daughter i.e. Jyothy grow up together and they are more like friends than relatives. Revathy’s uncle shows more affection towards her than his own daughter Jyothy. Revathy completing her college and gets a job offers from reputed industrialist Abirami. She starts the job and Abirami likes Revathy’s nature. Abirami has a son whose name was Prabhu who is ill and she decides to marry him to Revathy. But Revathy’s uncle doesn’t like this marriage proposal, but Revathy insists her uncle to accept it. So they get married after their marriage Prabhu starts to recover because of Revathy.

Jyothy is not beautiful as Revathy and hence her marriage keeps getting delayed. Abirami’s has one brother whose name is Karthik. At this time both of the Jyothy and Karthik talks unknowingly. They fall in love. They decide to meet each other. Jyothy’s father arranged her marriage with Arvind. After all tragedy Jyothy and Karthik get married and jyoth’s father died. The story takes a turn when their family distinguishes Revathy with her cousin sister, Jyothy who is not much pretty that the former. But, both the sisters have more affection for each other. The recent promo in Vijay TV of Pirivom Santhippom season 2 says that the launch of the serial will be coming soon.

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Paarijatham was a popular Malayalam serial which was broadcast on Asia Net. The first show was started on October 6, 2008. It ended in March 2011. This show received several nominations at the 2011 Asianet Television Awards. The serial has been remake in tamil with the same title.

Paarijatham tells the story of identical twin sisters, Aruna and Seema, the destiny and struggle between this twin sisters who may look similar but their attitude and approach to life is different. Aruna, the elder one is the simple & calm sister while Seema is ambitious and wants to achieve great things and enjoy the best in life. Seema is more educated than Aruna. Aruna dreams of a simple married life with a loving husband, but Seema wants an extremely rich husband who can provide her a luxurious life with all riches.

Jayapal is the son of a businessman Gangadhar. Jayapal is an arrogant who loves to spend time with women. Aruna works at a telephone booth in the town, while Seema is unemployed. Seema likes Jayapal because he is wealthy. But, Jayapal falls in love with Aruna. He does not know that Seema and Aruna are twins. Aruna becomes pregnant with Jayapal's child. Jayapal proposes to Aruna and they decide to marry. But, Jayapal's stepmother, Lalitha Bhai, poisons Jayapal's mind against Aruna and stops him from marrying her. Seema marries Mohanan, a friendly and nice man. Jayapal and Aruna are forced to marry each other. Aruna still loves Jayapal but he hates her. The story is about how Aruna wins back Jayapal's love and reforms him with the help of her sister Seema and father-in-law Gangadhara Menon. Lalitha Bai is thrown out of the house.

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Ramani vs Ramani is a situational comedy television series, first of Balachander’s serial, starring Prithvi Raj and Vasuki, which basically tackles a story of a newly-married couple and how they handle life together and as a family. Mr. Ramani and Mrs. Ramani seem to be a completely mismatched couple. They agree to disagree on everything and even went to a point of considering divorce.

Mr. Ramani is born with a silver spoon as the fourth child preceded by three tormenting sisters. His sisters hate him for being the much-wanted male child of the family. He dreams of fleeing away to the USA - away from his sisters, his army-major father who runs the house like a military academy, and his mother, a primary school teacher who is always moralizing However, fate has something else in store for him. His family decides to shackle him in holy matrimony to a girl sharing the same name - Ramany. She has briefly lived in the USA. So now, we have two neurotic individuals with very different dreams, thrown together by destiny. The episodes will leave you rolling on the floor with laughter and mirth

Some say life begins with marriage. Some say life ends with it. Whatever that may be, we have here, two neurotic urban individuals with very different dreams thrown together within the four walls of an apartment in Chennai leading to most hilarious situations.

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Ramani vs Ramani is a situational comedy television series, first of Balachander’s serial, starring Prithvi Raj and Vasuki, which basically tackles a story of a newly-married couple and how they handle life together and as a family. Mr. Ramani and Mrs. Ramani seem to be a completely mismatched couple. They agree to disagree on everything and even went to a point of considering divorce.

Mr. Ramani is born with a silver spoon as the fourth child preceded by three tormenting sisters. His sisters hate him for being the much-wanted male child of the family. He dreams of fleeing away to the USA - away from his sisters, his army-major father who runs the house like a military academy, and his mother, a primary school teacher who is always moralizing However, fate has something else in store for him. His family decides to shackle him in holy matrimony to a girl sharing the same name - Ramany. She has briefly lived in the USA. So now, we have two neurotic individuals with very different dreams, thrown together by destiny. The episodes will leave you rolling on the floor with laughter and mirth

Some say life begins with marriage. Some say life ends with it. Whatever that may be, we have here, two neurotic urban individuals with very different dreams thrown together within the four walls of an apartment in Chennai leading to most hilarious situations.

1.          Puriyaamal Pirinthom

         

Puriyaamal Pirinthom is tamil television serial by Radaan Media and it is telecast on Sun Tv. Kollywood actresses Raadhika Sarathkumar and Renuka, alongside other Vasantham artistes. Two stories, two ladies... Priya and Dhivahar, they are a sweet, loving couple who love with one’s entire heart and with soul each other. Their happy marriage comes to a halt when their beloved daughter dies. Priya strongly blames Dhivahar for her daughter's death. Priya blamed that, because of Dhivahar’s careless behavior caught them their doughter. So, Priya makes a strong decision to divorce to Dhivahar. Dhivahar tries to prove her difficult times that their doughter’s death was the result of an unfortunate accident. Dhivahar doesn’t want divorce from Priya. He still loves Priya and wishes to live a happily with her. But he is not able to convince and change Priya’s mind. Now the story is focusing on Priya and Dhivahar will get divorce or not. But Priya strongly oppose his husband Dhivahar. Dhivahar always get chance to convey her wife, that all was happened is just an accident. But Priya doesn’t accept it. She always blamed to Dhivahar for their daughter’s accident. She wants divorce from his husband. The story is about whether they get divorce or not.

Raadhika Sarathkumar: Raadhika Sarathkumar is an Indian television and film actress, entrepreneur and producer. She is the founder of Radaan Mediaworks India Limited. Raadhika was born 21 August 1962 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the eldest daughter of the late Tamil actor and comedian, M. R. Radha

Note: This serial aired on Sun TV from 5^th April 2004.

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Sandhana  kaadu is an indian television tamil show which was aired on Makkal tv. It is based on the life of the late forest bandit Veerapan. He was famous as the most fierce sandalwood smuggler of all times and reigned in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. The makers of the serial have tried to portray Veerapan as the Robinhood of south and focused on presenting a positive image of the brigand and have shown a modified version of Veerapan’s death by self-poisoning. They have tried to highlight various unknown facts about the life of Veerapan and have presented the soft side of the bandit by showing him as the savior of the poor who is always willing to help them and protect them.

Main cast and the makers:

Sandhanakaadu has been produced by Thanu , a famous South Indian film producer and directed by V.Gauthaman who is a South Indian director . He has directed several films and also directed the famous biography serial on Auto Shankar.

Karate raja The lead role in Sandhanakaadu has been played by Karate raja who is a South Indian actor and is a part of movies like Pokkiri and Someone like you.

This show was aired on 9pm Saturday 26^th july 2008 and became very popular. The serial had to face a stay earlier in 2007 following an appeal made by Veerapan’s wife that the show will disturb the privacy and normal life of her family.

Murgi chug gyi khet

Want to sell kidney

Candy crush troll

मैं हूं बलात्कारी

Chandigarh : Yo Yo Honey Singh told media that i got a big achievement in little age thats why my oppositions are not satisfied with that and they make a fake song ‘मैं हूं बलात्कारी’ with my voice and video. He was disappointed with all this from last 6 months. Noe he is ready to fight against all this. He is preparing a rap song to insult all the oppositions to realize them.

Revised Master Plan Amritsar Approved

                                     

Went on a day long visit with Principal Secretaries of all 

Development related departments and visited every possible site 

of the project to plan future expansion of the roads besides 

reviewing the ongoing construction of the projects. Orders have 

been implemented on comprehensive road improvement plan and 

Amritsar to have 100% coverage of sewerage and water network 

in next two years.

Punjab generate 2720 MW by May 2014 - Sukhbir Badal

Today asked the Punjab State Power Corportation Limited to put the construction of Mukerian Thermal Plant to be constructed by the corporation on fast track as the Union Coal Ministry today allotted it a coal block in Deocha-Pachami in West Bengal with coal reserves of 229 metric tonnes. TALWANDI SABO THERMAL PLANT to be operational by Diwali this year and RAJPURA THERMAL PLANT to be dedicated to the people of Punjab on December 8. Punjab is all set to generate 2720 MW power by May 2014. Also orders regular monitoring of 8 hours power supply on agriculture feeders by remote metering methods.

Atta Daal Scheme

Punjab Government ordered the fresh survey of Blue Card holders (beneficiaries of Atta-Daal 

scheme) to include all eligible poor families within the ambit of this scheme. It was reported

certain eligible poor families were left out during the old survey of the scheme and were unable 

to get the benefit of the scheme. All deputy commissioners directed to include remaining 

eligible families in the scheme. Rs. 180 crore has been released for the Atta-Daal scheme.

Back to traditional crops...

A labourer shovels wheat grain at a wholesale market in Amritsar. In the rice wheat system, the wheat crop is traditional and not so ecologically unfriendly.

Allen Result- JEE Advanced 2013

The best rank from this college is AIR 27. Total selections from this institute are 990

Heartiest congratulation to all these students and to this inatitute

Preparations for the start of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London

A Topiary in shape of Television Camera operator is seen in a broadcast position 

Special exchange bonus on 8th birthday of Maruti Suzuki Swift and many more

Punjab Technical University Admission Notice 2013

SAY NEVER TO DRUGS

Largest and biggest moon of 2013

Lovely Professional University advertisement in The Tribune

Appeal for the rescue and relief of affected people

Our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh appeal all citizens to donate generously to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for the rescue and relief operations for the affected people due to cloud burst and floods in the State of Uttarkhand.

Patiala water unfit for consumption

Patiala 24% of sample water of patiala fails test. Of the total water sample collected this year between January and may , around 24% have been found to be unfit for consumption. The Health and Family deprtment collected total of 202 samples out of which 48 are unfit and results of around 10 is still awaited

A Dollar touches to just short of 60 mark

An Indian rupee is gradually weakening from the past month. Rupee falls almost 130 paisa in a day against dollar. Now the US Dollar$ touches to a new low of 59.95, just short of the 60 mark.
It weakens set to make crude oil, fertilizers, iron ore, electronic goods etc. making imported components costlier.
Sensex plugins over 526 points, its biggest single day fall in nearly two years.
Things will also become tougher for households as petrol price are going high and electronics prices are gone up due to weakness in the rupee. Its just a shy for us having value of single dollar equals to 60   rupees which are exactly same during the time of independence. i.e.

                                                     In 1947

1 Dollar = 1 Rupee

                                                      Today 

1 Dollar = 59.95 Rupees

Punjabi Women Clothing

 Punjabi Women's Clothing

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The Clothing Style of Punjabi Girl or woman is as normal as possible. Punjabi Woman wear salwar kameez with a colorful duppta wear around their neck. Dupatta in Punjab has its own importance A salwar kameez consists of two pieces of clothes: the kameez or the shirt or the top piece, and the salwar or pants or the bottom piece. Salwar, kameez and duptta comes in variety of colors and designs. Women also wear shawls instead of dupatta in winter seasons. 

                     

   

The main accessories for Punjabi Woman is Ornaments that may be either of Gold or silver or even may be of diamond. the woman adorn themselves with necklaces, ear rings, bangles, rings and many more...

However with modernization women are adopting western trends. Traditional trends of wearing is changing to western trends. Woman wearing a variety of western wears like Jeans, Jackets, Mini Skirts, trousers and other more form of western outfits.

                     

English words translated in Punjabi

WORDS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATED TO PUNJABI

PUNJABI	ENGLISH
Hello	Sat sri akal
Goodbye	Sat sri akal
See you again	Fir milaan ge Alweeda  [informal]
Thanks	Sukriya
Please	Kirpa karke Meherbani karke
Good	Acha
bad	bura
God bless	Rab rakha
See you later	Fer milde aa
What’s up?	Kidda?
What’s new?	Koi navi  taji?
How’s the family?	Sare theek tak ne?
Everything good?	Chardikala?
You make me happy	Tusi mainu kush kar dene aa
I love you	Mainu tuhanu pyaar kardi haa
In English please	English wich gal karo
Stop talking about me	Bas karo, meriyan gallan na karo
Happy birthday	Janam din diyan vadhaiyan

*Punjabi and Hindi language are similar. Except for a couple of words and the style of using them such as Punjabi uses TUSI whereas Hindi uses AAP both of the word has the same meaning which is YOU. Punjabi tend to be more aggressive and upbeat about their language while Hindi tend to speak on a politer note.

Are Punjabi's more culturally similar 2 Pakistani's than South Indians?

It is a completely different culture and Language between Punjabi ‘s and South Indians  whereas my Pakistani people speak Urdu and Punjabi and they have the same looks with the Punjabi's. Punjabi and South Indian's seem completely different in comparison with their culture,  mannerisms and looks.  There really is no such thing as a true Pakistanian. When the country was formed in the 1940's the name is just an acronym for Punjabi, Afghanistan, Kashmir, India. They added stan to it and you get Pakistan. Whereas South Indians r culturally closer to Sri Lankans, as already pointed out geographical reasons.

Punjabi Dance BHANGRA

Bhangra is a special type of dance style performed by Punjabis on any festival, occasion like to celebrate the harvesting or any time when the Punjabi is in happy mood. Though the existence of may precede historical record, it can be traced as far as 500 years, originating in the fertile region of Punjab. A participatory community dance called bhangra is attested since the 1980's in northern areas of Punjab region. Bhangra was a seasonal dance practised ia a month leading to the month of Vaisakhi  

 

Musical Instruments

 

 

Bhangra dance is based on the music from a barrel size drum called DHOL accompanied with single string instrument called the TUMBI , folk singing and Chimta. The accompaning songs are small couplets written in Punjabi language called bolis. Bangra singers employ a high, energetic tone of voice. Singing with great pride, the typically add nonsensical, random noises to their singings.



Dresses
Traditionally men wear chaadra while doing bangra. A chadra is a type of piece of cloth that wrapped around the waist. Men also wear kurta which is a long shirt. In addition men wear pagri (turban) to cover their heads.
In modern times, men also wear turla, fan attached to pagri. Colorful vests are also worn above the kurta. Phummans are also worn on each arm.
Women wear traditional dress called salwar kamiz. Women also wear chunnis colorful pieces of cloth wrapped around the neck.

Besides above, bhangra dress has different parts which are listed below:
Pag
Kurta 
Lumbi
Rumal

Bhangra music is well known in UK as that's where a large population of Punjabi's migrated. Over the last 10 to 15 years, it has gained more recognisation in North America and as up and DJ's and producers have started playing this sound to a wider audience. Now Bhangra has become a synergistic blend of it's traditional origins and contemporary musical styles ranging from Reggae, Hip Hop, to Drum N Bass. Bhangra continues to reach the masses, emerging as a popular global sound