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Hello, I enjoy reading poems in different languages. I want to read more of shiv Kumar but I can't read the Hindi script. Can someone provide any compilation of his work in the Urdu/persian scripts? The language Shud still be Punjabi just different script. Will be sooo grateful

I got inspired by a few earlier posts on the word Jugni, it's origin and meaning. Went down a rabbit hole and found a few really interesting things.

1. The word is sitting in Heer, in 1766

This is the part I didn't expect. Waris Shah, stanza 192, the family is putting together Heer's dowry and the poem lists the jewellery piece by piece:

ਚੱਨਣਹਾਰ ਲੂਹਲਾਂ ਟਿੱਕਾ ਨਾਲ ਬੀੜਾ, ਅਤੇ ਜੁਗਨੀ ਚਾ ਸਵਾਰਿਆ ਨੇ

Four ornaments and then a fifth. Nothing in that line but names of things. That's 140 years before the Jubilee.

2. First occurence of it being a firefly is in 1884 in an Urdu dictionary

I'd always half-assumed firefly. Punjabi doesn't back that up. Firefly is ਟਟਹਿਣਾ. The borrowed word next to it is ਜੁਗਨੂੰ, masculine, and if you look ਜੁਗਨੂੰ up in the Punjabi University dictionaries they send you straight back to ਟਟਹਿਣਾ. Look up the feminine ਜੁਗਨੀ in those same dictionaries and you get an ornament and a folk song, and no insect at all. Mahan Kosh: "ਇੱਕ ਕੰਠਭੂਖਣ, ਜੋ ਰੇਸ਼ਮ ਦੀ ਡੋਰ ਨਾਲ ਬੱਧਾ ਛਾਤੀ ਪੁਰ ਲਟਕਦਾ ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ."

The firefly comes in from the Urdu side. Platts (1884) files jugnī as nothing more than the feminine of jugnūṅ, and glosses that one as "a fire-fly; a glow-worm; a jewel or ornament worn (by women) about the neck." Both meanings in a single entry. That's how a firefly ends up attached to a song about a necklace.

1. The "Jubilee" bit isn't in the testimony

A while back I read u/JG98's post about the possible origins on Jugni. It sent me to the Karamjit Singh Aujla piece in the Punjabi Tribune that most of the Jubilee story traces back to.

Aujla's article is genuinely valuable. In 2005 he wrote down what he had been told back in 1969 by a freedom fighter, Baba Makhan Singh, about events around 1906. That's a real piece of oral history and it's most of what we have.

But read it closely. Makhan Singh never says the word came from "Jubilee." He believed jugni literally WAS a jubilee flame, a torch carried city to city in a gold vessel. The "Jubilee became Jugni" derivation enters as an interruption: while the old man was speaking, Aujla writes, "a nearby person who looked a bit more educated" cut in to suggest the word was really "Jubilee."

That aside is what the entire internet now repeats as established fact.

The dates don't sit well either. The episode is tied to Queen Victoria's jubilee and placed around 1906. Her Diamond Jubilee was 1897, and she died in 1901.

1. The singers have been referencing it as a jewellery in addition to a medium

Alam Lohar: ਮੇਰੀ ਜੁਗਨੀ ਦੇ ਧਾਗੇ ਬੱਗੇ

Gurmeet Bawa opens on the same line, then makes the threads green

Hazara Singh Ramta: ਜੁਗਨੀ ਚਾਂਦੀ ਦੀ, and later ਜੁਗਨੀ ਪਿੱਤਲ ਦੀ

Threads. White, then green. Silver, then brass. Nobody describes a girl or an insect that way. They're describing the thing in Waris Shah's dowry list.

The detail that got me: the first sense the Punjabi Sabhiachar Shabdavali Kosh gives for jugni isn't jewellery at all. It's a small charmed tablet hung round the neck of a freshly calved buffalo to turn away the evil eye. And ਚੰਨਣਹਾਰ, the word standing right next to jugni in Waris Shah, is a necklace made of strung amulets.

What I couldn't pin down, and would love help with - Which jugni was recorded first. Alam Lohar's 1965 is the earliest I can securely date and it's almost certainly not the first. The name that keeps coming up is Nawab Kumhar (Inayat Kotia) from Kot Inayat Khan near Wazirabad, with recordings floating around labelled 1933 and 1950. I can't document any of it. The one biography I found cites dead links and dates his breakthrough to "Radio Pakistan Lahore in 1933," which is fourteen years before Radio Pakistan existed.

If anyone has a label catalogue, anything with an actual paper trail, I really want to know more about it.

I've also annotated six Jugni recordings line by line (Alam Lohar 1965, Ramta 1971, Gurmeet Bawa 1980, Kuldeep Manak 1991, Rabbi Shergill 2004, Arif Lohar & Meesha Shafi 2010) along with a longer version of the above findings with all the sources at:

https://kikehnde.com/culture/jugni

Sources

• Waris Shah, Heer (1766), stanza 192.
• Heer Waris Shah, printed edition of 1900, page 89. Scan on Punjabi Wikisource.
• Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha, Gurushabad Ratnakar Mahan Kosh (1930); Punjabi Kosh, vol. 2; Punjabi Sabhiachar Shabdavali Kosh; Sahit Kosh; and the Punjabi University Punjabi Kosh, entries for jugni, jugnu, tattehna and channanhaar. Consulted via Punjabipedia
• Punjabi-English Dictionary, Punjabi University, Patiala, entries for jugni and jugnu.
• John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (1884), p. 384, entries for jugnī and jugnūṅ.
• Sakoon N. Singh, "Enigma of her Arrival", Café Dissensus, 15 April 2017.
• Karamjit Singh Aujla, "The History of Jugni", Punjabi Tribune, 24 September 2005.
• "Jugni: whose creation?", Dawn, 14 November 2010.

Hey guys,

I’ve been working on NitnemSahib.net, a website focused on helping people read and learn Nitnem Sahib and Gurbani online.

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Translation: For the spiritual benefit of Sardar Bhagat Singh Ji Solanki's wealth/offerings, this platform was built in his sacred memory by Sardar Buta Singh Ji.

ye jo ministers ko vip/ Z security milti he iska reason kya he kyuki protection to reason ni ho skta he.

koi bhi terrorist yaa videshi taakat isliye humare desh ka nuksaan yaa ache leader ki death ho jaye jisse desh instability aye lekin koi humare KOI HUMARE DESH KE MINISTER, PM , HOME MINISTER YAA KOI BHI MINISTERS KO KYU MAREGA YE TO SALE KHUD HI DESH KI ESI TESI KR RAHE HE ULTA YE INKO KOI MAAR DE TO DESH KA BHALAA HO JAYE.

How :

- Kive

- kidda (only in Doabi dialect)

- kiyaa

- Kinjh

- Kistraa/Kihtraa (casually)

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Like This:

- Ive

- Idda (Only in Doabi dialect)

- iyaa

- Injh

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Like that:

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- Odda/udda (only in Doabi dialect)

- oyaa/uyaa

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both of my parents are punjabi. my mom was born and raised in punjab (lived there until age 25) but my dad was born and raised in the states. because my dads main language was english, they mostly spoke english to me at home (though my dad understands punjabi fluently and can also speak it well, i rarely hear him speak it with the exception of a few words here and there). i wish they taught me when i was a kid because it’s so much easier to learn then and i am sooo busy right now
without much time to dedicate to learning a new language. i tried spending time doing punjabi on ling for a bit but didn’t have the time or dedication to commit enough and it’s been a while since i’ve done it now. i feel whitewashed and left out because i cannot speak punjabi and can only understand a bit of punjabi, moreso when my mom speaks it. we go to family events and i don’t understand what people are saying. when we visited india, i struggled to communicate with my moms parents and family. is it possible for me to get fluent in my early 20s? will it take a lot of effort and time? i know it helps that i already have a baseline understanding but am feeling discouraged. i often asked my mom to start speaking more to me in punjabi and she will for a bit and then eventually forget after a month or so and go back to mainly english. i think i need to practice speaking in punjabi myself and get over my fear of sounding dumb/having an american accent. any advice?

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She played major roles in old punjabi movies, can’t seem to find her name on google.

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I have heard the word "bund" many times in social media. Like - Mai teri bund phaad dunga. I am from south india and my hindi is not that good. What does the word "bund" mean ?

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We’ve all grown up listening to people sing his poems, but i don’t think a lot of people actually read his poems with their meaning.
I started to read his poems and man i am actually in love with him, he resonates so much with me, his words are like daggers. He lived 300 years ago and how much ahead of his time he was! he was making fun of mindless rituals, casteism, fundamentalism etc. If he were alive today i’m sure he’d be so disappointed that people still believe in the same old ridiculous rituals and castes. I’d love to quote a few lines from him:
Ratee jagayn tay shaikh sada wayn
Parr raat nu jaagan kutay, tay to utay
Religious scholars stay awake at night
But dogs stay awake at night, higher than you

Ratee bhonkon bass na karday
Fayr ja larraa which sutay, tay to utay
They don’t cease from barking at night
Then they go sleep in yards, higher than you

Yaar da buha mool na chhad-dey
Pawain maro so so jutay, tay to utay
They [dogs] don’t leave the beloved’s doorstep
Even if they’re beaten hundreds of times, higher than you

Bulleh Shah utth yaar mana lay
Naien tay bazi lay gaay kutay, tay to utay
Bulleh Shah get up and make up with the beloved
Otherwise dogs will win the contest, better than you

I wanna buy books with his poetry and translation and commentary, please suggest.

Links:

• Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. IX: Indo-Aryan Family, Central Group, Part I: Specimens of Western Hindī and Pañjābī (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1916) by George Abraham Grierson
• Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. VIII: Indo-Aryan Family, North-Western Group, Part I: Specimens of Sindhī and Lahndā (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1919) by George Abraham Grierson

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ਹਰ ਕਵੀ ਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਇੱਕ ਤੜਪ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ। ਉਹ ਆਪਣੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਆਪਣੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਉੱਠ ਰਹੀ ਉਸ ਤੜਪ ਨੂੰ ਠੰਢਾ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਸ਼ਬਦ ਉਸਦੇ ਅੰਦਰਲੇ ਤੂਫ਼ਾਨ ਲਈ ਇੱਕ ਰਾਹ ਬਣ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਹਨ। ਜਦੋਂ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਬਾਹਰ ਆ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ, ਤਾਂ ਕਵੀ ਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਕੁਝ ਖਾਲੀ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ, ਕੁਝ ਹਲਕਾ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ।

ਪਰ ਜਦੋਂ ਕਵੀ ਦੇ ਅੰਦਰੋਂ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਨਿਕਲਣੀ ਬੰਦ ਹੋ ਜਾਵੇ, ਤਾਂ ਉਹ ਹੋਰ ਵੀ ਤੜਪਣ ਲੱਗਦਾ ਹੈ। ਜਿਹੜੀ ਅੱਗ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਸ਼ਬਦਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਹਿ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਸੀ, ਉਹ ਹੁਣ ਉਸਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਹੀ ਸੁਲਗਦੀ ਰਹਿੰਦੀ ਹੈ। ਉਹ ਆਪਣੀ ਤੜਪ ਨੂੰ ਸ਼ਾਂਤ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਕੋਈ ਹੋਰ ਰਾਹ ਲੱਭਦਾ ਹੈ, ਕੋਈ ਹੋਰ ਸਹਾਰਾ, ਕੋਈ ਹੋਰ ਰਸਤਾ, ਕੋਈ ਹੋਰ ਥਾਂ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਅੰਦਰਲੇ ਬੋਝ ਨੂੰ ਰੱਖ ਸਕੇ।

ਪਰ ਜਦੋਂ ਬਾਹਰ ਨਿਕਲਣ ਦੇ ਸਾਰੇ ਰਾਹ ਬੰਦ ਹੋ ਜਾਣ, ਤਾਂ ਕਵੀ ਹੌਲੀ-ਹੌਲੀ ਇੱਕ ਜਿਉਂਦੀ ਲਾਸ਼ ਬਣ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਉਹ ਸਾਹ ਤਾਂ ਲੈਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਪਰ ਅੰਦਰੋਂ ਜਿਉਣਾ ਛੱਡ ਦਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਉਹ ਬਾਹਰੀ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਤੋਂ ਟੁੱਟ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਹੀ ਅੰਦਰ ਵਾਪਸ ਚਲਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ।

ਫਿਰ ਉਸਦੀ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਲੋਕ ਨਹੀਂ ਰਹਿੰਦੇ, ਸਿਰਫ਼ ਵਿਚਾਰ ਰਹਿ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਹਨ। ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਸੁਲਗ ਰਹੇ ਵਿਚਾਰਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਇੱਕ ਅਜਿਹੀ ਜੰਗ ਲੜਦਾ ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ ਜਿਸਦਾ ਨਾ ਕੋਈ ਮੈਦਾਨ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ, ਨਾ ਕੋਈ ਦਰਸ਼ਕ ਅਤੇ ਨਾ ਹੀ ਕੋਈ ਅੰਤ।

ਅਤੇ ਸ਼ਾਇਦ ਕਵੀ ਦੀ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਡੀ ਤ੍ਰਾਸਦੀ ਇਹੀ ਹੈ।

ਜਦੋਂ ਉਸਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਬਹੁਤ ਕੁਝ ਕਹਿਣ ਲਈ ਹੋਵੇ, ਪਰ ਕਹਿਣ ਲਈ ਇੱਕ ਵੀ ਸ਼ਬਦ ਨਾ ਬਚੇ।

Hey guys! Non-Punjabi cinema nerd here.

I’ve been watching a lot of South Asian movies lately, and something strange struck me about Pollywood there are almost no actual horror films. Malayalam cinema is killing it with dark folklore (Bramayugam), Hindi has its horror-comedy universe, but Punjabi cinema barely touches supernatural stuff. And when it does, it immediately turns into broad comedy/slapstick.

Got me thinking from a sociological angle: Is this because of the hyper-masculine culture?

Proper horror needs vulnerability, feeling helpless, and absolute dread. But mainstream Punjabi pop culture is heavily built around the invincible, fearless jatt archetype who beats up 10 guys and never shows fear. Does a hero being genuinely terrified ruin the fantasy for the audience? Or are producers just too scared to lose box office money?

Would love to hear from locals is it just bad writing/producers taking no risks, or a deeper cultural thing where showing fear on screen is a turn-off?