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The Punjab ( Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, پنجاب, Urdu: پنجاب, Hindi: पंजाब),
also spelled
Panjab (Persian: پنجاب, panj-āb, "five waters"),
is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India.
The name of the region is Persian in origin and means "(The Land of) Five Waters" referring to the following rivers: the
Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Sutlej, and the Beas. All are tributaries of the Indus River, the Jhelum being the largest. Punjab has a long history and rich cultural heritage. The people of the Punjab are called Punjabis and their language is called Punjabi.
The main religions of the Punjab region are Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism.
The area now known as the Greater Punjab comprises what were once vast territories of West Pakistan and northern western India.
The Punjabi region of North India, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, has a historical and cultural link to Indo-Iranian (Aryan) heritage identity. As a result of numerous invasions, many ethnic groups and religions make up the cultural heritage of Punjab.
In 326 BCE, Alexander the Great invaded the Punjab from the north and incorporated it into his empire.
The British Raj had political, cultural, philosophical and literary consequences in the Punjab, including the establishment of a new system of education.
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quoteClimate of Punjab Punjab is situated in the North-Eastern part of India.
The Punjab Climate is determined by the extreme hot and extreme cold conditions. The region lying near the foot hills of Himalayas receive heavy rainfall whereas the region lying at a distant from the hills, the rainfall is scanty and the temperature is high.
Punjab Climate comprises of
three seasons. They are the summer months that spans from mid April to the end of June.
The rainy season in Punjab is from the months of early July to end of September.
The winter season in Punjab is experienced during the months of early December to the end of February.
The transitional Seasons in Punjab are the post monsoon season and the post winter season.
Summer in Punjab actually commences from mid April. But the temperature starts rising from February onwards. The summer months are followed by the rainy seasons. Generally, the rainy season in Punjab begins in the first weeks of July. It ranges from 250mm to 1000mm. The agriculture of the state highly depends on the rains. The monsoon is brought by the monsoonal winds blowing over the Bay of Bengal. The winter season in Punjab is mostly experienced in the month of January, when the temperature falls to 5 degree in the night and it is around 12 degree in the morning.
The post monsoonal transitional season remains quite fair and dry. In the post winter transitional season, hail storms and brief showers occur which causes damage to the crops. During the end of the March, the wind becomes dry.
The Punjab Climate has been a great factor in contributing to the economy of the state.
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Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ in Gurmukhi script and
پنجابی in Shahmukhi/Perso-Arabic script)
is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region (north western India and in north eastern Pakistan). For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language. Punjabi can be subdivided into two varieties, known as Eastern Punjabi and Western Punjabi.
The Punjabi language has many different dialects, spoken in the different sub-regions of greater Punjab.
Modern Punjabi is not the predominant language of the Sikh scriptures (which though in Gurmukhi script are written in several languages).
Punjabi is spoken as a native language by over 2.85% of Indians.
Punjabi is the official language of the Indian state of Punjab.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !Gurmukhi (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ, IPA: [ɡʊɾmʊkʰi])
is the most common script used for writing the Punjabi language.
An abugida derived from the Landa script and ultimately descended from Brahmi, Gurmukhi was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad Dev Ji, in the 16th century. The whole of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji's 1430 pages are written in this script. The name Gurmukhi is derived from the Old Punjabi term
"guramukhī", meaning "from the mouth of the Guru".
The 10 Sikh Gurus adopted the Proto-Gurmukhi script to write the Guru Granth Sahib, the religious scriptures of the Sikhs.
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Sat Siri Akal (Truth is God) - Namaste !by Dr. Sandip Sital Chauhan
A Sikh place of worship is called Gurdwara.
The Golden Temple, in Amritsar is the most sacred place of the Sikh religion.
Barah Maha (ਬਾਰਹ ਮਾਹਾ) / Twelve Months1) Chyet / ਚੇਤ
Chyet (March-April)The season of Chayet when the birds sing in quiet harmony, the serene waters flow, the flowers have bloomed to their full glory…and now, seeds are forming…the seeds that may pave the way for another season.
2) Waisaakh ਵਿਸਾਖ
Waisakh (April- May)A season where life and death are simultaneous. The seeds of Chaitra have died to give birth to a new awareness…with a sense of waiting…of hope…of expectation…when life all around is slowly wilting. The trees are beginning to shed, the waters are receding, the birds have quietened down and so has the sky…quiet and somber, and, all around is the sheer brilliance of gold reflected in the golden grain of wheat in the fields.
3) Jeth/ਜੇਠ
Jaith (May-June) literally means ‘Bigger’. the Sun at the peak of its glory, its heat…for the sun has inched its way closer to the earth, the days are stretching and burning…like the heart and the soul of an ambitious worldly human scorching desires…money…power… heat …there is restlessness all around- …harsh and ruthless…tormented skies and burning souls on earth.
4) Assad/ਹਾੜ੍ਹ
Asaad (June- July)means ‘hope arises’. Just as the heat reaches its peak in the month of Jaith, and burns up the earth…what survives is one that’s firmly rooted to the earth…leaving nothing but a vacuum as storms rage in with all their fury …the thunderstorms, dark ominous clouds, raging waters…but there is a hope that soon the Gods above will relent and shower this earth with their blessings for the life to flower again soon.
5) Sawan/ਸਾਉਣ
Sawan (July-August) The earth is blessed again. The divine rains have given life to nature and habitat all around to the trees, the waters, the mountains, the skies. Life is young and green again bringing with it a sense of energy and fulfillment
6) Bhadon/ਭਾਦੋਂ
Bhadon(August-September)depicts a duality of the season’s characteristics. The second month of Sawan on the one hand brings excitement; life and abundance while on the other there are thundering skies and somewhere, a lurking fear of the past…of over abundance
7) Aasun/ਅੱਸੂ
Aasun (September-October)come, listen, quietly. Its quiet and calm outside…try and find it within you too. Hold on to your restless spirit and listen. Listen to the quiet harmony of nature, to the song of your own spirit. A time to listen and imbibe the stability and the stillness …the sthirta
8) Katke/ਕੱਤਕ
Katake(October-November)a month when the skies have cleared, all insects and reptiles prepare to move in to their holes. Kartik brings with it soft, pleasant and cool air. A time to clean up your home, to decorate it and prepare to welcome Ram, to welcome your own self and your soul…a season of correction.
9) Manghar/ਮੱਘਰ
Manghar(November-December)time to come home. A time for fairytales, of story telling…searching…a time to be with one’s own self. When the birds are on their way home and the skies are beginning to get cold. This is the time to remain inside ones own space.
10) Poukh/ਪੌਹ
Poukh (December -January) A time for hibernation. A time when it so cold that the birds have all flown away and the animals choose to sleep in, when the waters have frozen and the mountains hidden themselves under a blanket of snow
11) Maagh/ਮਾਘ
Maagh (January-February) the seeds that were sown have now sprouted…a new beginning as life is born again…
12) Falgun/ਫੱਗਣ
Falgun (February March) Life blooms all around full of color, music, hope and ecstasy. The trees, the flowers, the singing waters, the dancing skies, suggest a celebration of life, an awakening of the soul.
Routed…a new beginning as life is awaken from the sleep again
The above information was originally composed by Sidharth Artist.
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quoteBARAH MAHA or BARAH MASA (in Hindi),is a form of folk poetry in which the emotions and yearnings of the human heart are expressed in terms of the changing moods of Nature over the twelve months of the year. In this form of poetry, the mood of Nature in each particular month (of the Indian calendar) depicts the inner agony of the human heart which in most cases happens to be a woman separated from her spouse or lover.
In other words, the separated woman finds her own agony reflected in the different faces of Nature. The tradition of Barah Maha poetry is traceable to classical epochs. In Sanskrit, the Barah Maha had the form of shad ritu varnan, i.e. description of the six seasons (shad = six; ritu = season; varnan = description), the most wellknown example being Kalidasa's Ritu Sanhar. The mode was commonly employed to depict the moods of the love stricken woman in separation, and it became an established vogue in medieval Indian poetry. Modern languages of northern India claim several distinguished models. In Hindi, the first instance of this poetic form occurs in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's Padmavat.
In Punjabi, Guru Nanak's Barah Maha in the measure Tukhari is not only the oldest composition belonging to this genre but also the first in which the theme of love poetry has been transformed into that of spiritual import. He made the human soul the protagonist which suffers in the cesspool of transmigration as a result of its separation from the Supreme Soul. This is followed by Guru Arjan's Barah Maha.
Later some Sufi poets such as 'Ali Haider, Bulleh Shah, Hasham and Shah Murad also wrote barah mahas. Haflz Barkhurdar was the first poet in the Punjabi romantic tradition to compose a barah maha as an independent work. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were a number of barah mahas and siharffs written in Punjabi. Poetry in this class can be broadly divided into various types religious, farmers' narrative (included in an epic poem), viraha (separation) and 'trial of chastity* variety. Guru Arjan's Barah Maha falls in the viraha category, depicting through the twelve months the pangs of the bride, i.e. the human soul separated from her Divine Essence.
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Haiku in PunjabIn Punjab, haiku was introduced by
Parminder Sodhi who lives in Japan around 2001. Greatly influenced by Sodhi’s book “Japani Haiku Shairi”, Amarjit Sathi started writing and promoting Punjabi haiku in 2003.
In 2008 he published his first Haiku book under the title “Nimakh”, which means the time it takes to blink an eye. Sathi has an immense love for the genre and see it as a possible form of poetic expression in Punjabi.
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The Tea Room -- MultiLingual HaikuThe main focus of 'The Tea Room - MultiLingual Haiku'
is to promote genuine Haiku poetry,
in Punjabi as well as other languages . . .
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Things found on the way
パンジャブ - パンジャーブ州
パンジャブの俳句 - Haiku from Punjab
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HAIKUfor the haiku friends of the Punjabspring festival -
a new beginning
a new awakening
ਰੁੱਤ ਬਹਾਰ
ਇੱਕ ਨਵੀਂ ਸ਼ੁਰੁਆਤ
ਇੱਕ ਨਵੀਂ ਜਾਗ੍ਰਤੀ Gabi Greve
January 2012The translation is by Jugnu Seth.
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Village in PunjabPhoto and Haiku by
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