the college.[3] By this time‚ he was fluent in Hindi‚ English‚ Urdu‚ Punjabi and Sanskrit languages.[3][26][27] In 1923‚ Singh won an essay competition set by the Punjab Hindi Sahitya Sammelan. In his essay on Punjab’s Language and Script‚ he quoted Punjabi literature and showed a deep understanding of the problems of afflicting Punjab.[3] He joined the Indian nationalist youth organisation Naujawan Bharat Sabha (Hindi: "Youth Society of India") along with his fellow revolutionaries‚ and became popular
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Do you know that Yamuna is another name for Yami‚ the sister of Yama‚ the god of death? Yami and Yama were born twins. Yama and Yami were Surya’s children. Although I have not come across any person called Yama‚ or Narada for that matter‚ we often remember these two characters in our day to day life! If anyone thwarts a serious activity of yours‚ you will complain to another: “That fellow turned up like a Yama..” And if someone creates a misunderstanding between you and a friend‚ you will
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(1) The decline of Harappan civilization The decline of Harappan culture is difficult to explain. During its late phase between 2000 and 1700 BC ’The Indus Valley Civilization as a distinct entity gradually ceased to exist’. Scholars have given different answers to the question as to why did the civilization end? Some scholars‚ believing in a dramatic collapse of the civilization‚ have looked for evidences of a calamity of catastrophic proportions‚ which wiped out the urban communities. Some of
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the main flag bearers of the company’s image. Nestlé Pakistan now operates the biggest milk collection operation in Pakistan‚ Currently; Nestlé Pakistan collects milk from an estimated 190‚000 farmers spread over 146‚000 sq Km’s in the province of Punjab and Sindh. “ Milk Pak” and “ Every Day” are the leading brands of Nestle in processed milk category “Nestlé Pure Life”‚ was initially launched for the first time by Nestle in Pakistan in 1998
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Shaheed Udham Singh (1899-1940) Udham Singh‚ a revolutionary nationalist‚ was born Sher Singh on 26 December 1899‚ at Sunam‚ in the then princely state of Patiala. His father‚ Tahal Singh‚ was at that time working as a watchman on a railway crossing in the neighbouring village of Upall. Sher Singh lost his parents before he was seven years and was admitted along with his brother Mukta Singh to the Central Khalsa Orphanage at Amritsar on 24 October 1907. As both brothers were administered the
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Dosanjh ’s song Lak 28 Kudi Da reached No 1 in BBC Asian Download Charts in May 2011. The song was released a promotional track for Diljit Dosanjh ’s film Lion of Punjab.[8] Honey Singh has received the ETC award for the Best sound in 2006 for his song Glassi and the PTC award for the Best Folk Pop Award 2009 for Rebirth and PTC Punjab Best Music Director 2011.[9] It has been reported that he has been paid the highest fee ever for a Bollywood song (as of 2012) of ₹7 million (US$120‚000) for a
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Bhagat Singh ( 28 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian nationalist considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh‚ the word Shaheed meaning "martyr" in a number of Indian languages. Born into a Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj‚ as a teenager Singh studied European revolutionary movements and was attracted to anarchist and marxist
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Talk about your hometown The first memory of my home town is a small peaceful town with reasonable population encircled by hills and mountains‚ a road slithering on the North East Mountains to join it to Peshawar. I used to watch traffic lights on this road at night. The sight of traffic lights on that road fascinated me and I took them for fire worms chasing each other. The sound of water stream called Kohat Toi‚ coming from the North West out skirt of city‚ and howling of wolves which scared
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Educational reforms are a significant reference point in the educational history of Pakistan in terms of their scale‚ the amount of money invested in them‚ the order of their urgency and their official/political ownership. The reforms are also important as their need was felt by the donor country (the US)‚ and the contours of the implementation process were drawn up by consultants who came as part of the grant package. Before we look at the politics of these educational reforms we need to understand
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River plain in Punjab and Sind. However‚ the country is still far from realizing the large potential yield that the well-irrigated and fertile soil from the Indus irrigation system could produce. About 60 percent is often classified as unusable for forestry or agriculture as it mainly consists mostly of deserts‚ mountain slopes‚ and urban settlements. The scant rainfall over most of the country makes about 80 percent of cropping dependent on irrigation. Lands largely in northern Punjab and the Khyber
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