I spoke to 3AW as to why I was peacefully protesting One Nation. They have a right to hold their events, as we live in a democracy and we as Melburnians have the right to peacefully protest them to send a message that we welcome migrants & refugees & reject the politics of hate
@digital_heer Wish you a good trip . Just get into any book store . These days Punjabi book store keep a large variety of books. My personal choice is poetry , you can check with them according to your taste . Get Heer , mirza, sassi punnu, shiv are forever
A newspaper which is no longer a newspaper but a billionaire funded pamphlet for far right insurgency, built on fear and division and the votes of people being duped into thinking she is “on their side”!
Every election, Maharaja Ranjit Singh is resurrected for speeches, rallies and garlands. Once the votes are counted, he is returned to the grave—until someone needs a villain, when the garlands are quietly replaced with a thorny mala. Such is afterlife.
The first currency, legal and court-related term in Heer Waris Shah is ਵੱਢੀ (bribe). It was familiar enough in 18th-century Punjab to appear naturally in literature. Heer preserves not just language, but a snapshot of society and its institutions.
#HWSQUIZ
Sexism just has no place in our political debate, full stop.
A billboard truck using sexist language has been driving around Melbourne as part of a secret and well-funded political campaign.
People are entitled to disagree with me. That’s democracy.
But I care that this attacks women.
And I care about who’s next.
The political debate in this country has become corrosive over the last few years.
So much so that behaviour which would once have been condemned is now just another part of life.
Media don’t call it out.
They report on this like it’s fair game, like it’s normal.
But nothing about this is normal.
If you don’t take a stand against this creeping culture, it has a tendency of taking over.
You only have to look at America to know that.
I cannot stand back and let Victoria become a place where this sort of language is fair game against any woman at work - or any woman in leadership.
If we don’t draw a line, the line will keep moving.
At the end of the day, I just want my kids to grow up knowing that women deserve the same respect as men.
I want girls to know that they should never need to aim lower just to feel safer.
And I want boys to know that they don’t have to put women ‘in their place’ to make their own way in the world.
Sexism hurts everyone.
If the media won’t call out it, I will.
Must be something truly special about this combo!
In Punjabi we still call it ਚੌਲ whether raw or cooked, while ਭਾਤ is the cooked rice in many other languages
The very first food mentioned? Classic ਦੁੱਧ ਚਾਵਲ — milk & rice! Punjab’s deep love for milk & milk products shines through every text.
On a lighter note, even in Gurbani there’s a beautiful mention of Krishna enjoying ਦਹੀ ਭਾਤੁ (yogurt rice).
In Waris Shah’s Heer, the first non-agricultural tool to appear is the cobbler’s last kalbūt (ਕਲਬੂਤ), likely from Greek kalópous (“wooden foot”). Punjabi may contain more Greek-derived vocabulary than we realize. Unfortunately, we don’t have searchable, robust Punjabi corpus.
Available on the public domain (https://t.co/2tCsNdXSoP). I’ve also added a cleaned text file version after 3–4 iterations, since their OCR engine (Tesseract) is not efficient for Punjabi script. Another lightly edited and coloured pdf is also available for easy read.
In Waris Shah’s Heer, the first non-agricultural tool to appear is the cobbler’s last kalbūt (ਕਲਬੂਤ), likely from Greek kalópous (“wooden foot”). Punjabi may contain more Greek-derived vocabulary than we realize. Unfortunately, we don’t have searchable, robust Punjabi corpus.