Browsing Tag: Punjabi

UCSC receives $247,000 gift to support Sikh and Punjabi Studies program

UC Santa Cruz has received $247,000 to establish an endowed fund in support of the Humanities Division’s Sikh and Punjabi Studies program.
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Ugandan Sikh MP, whose family was spared by Idi Amin, woos Punjabi farmers

The first African Sikh MP, whose family was among a very few who did not leave Uganda, and was considered a favourite of despot Idi Amin during 1970s, wants Punjabi farmers to cultivate land in the east African country that is now becoming a passage to entire east Africa after South Sudan became a new country recently.
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Juno-winner Kiran Ahluwalia collaborates with legendary Malian band Tinariwen - Album Release

Having previously merged her music with sounds as diverse as Portuguese fado and Celtic fiddle, on this captivating new recording, award-winning Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia embraces her love of Saharan desert blues and collaborates with two Tuareg groups; the legendary Tinariwen and up-and-coming fellow tribesmen, Terakaft.
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English version of Punjabi storybook released in Canada

A collection of Punjabi short stories written by Dr Harshinder Kaur, deputy medical superintendent of Government Rajindera Hospital in Patiala, have been rewritten in English by a Canadian writer, Ajmer Rode.
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You can now text in Gurmukhi on your mobile phone

Panini Keypad uses artificial intelligence to accurately estimate the characters that the user could be typing and places them to his fingertips. This approach is completely new and unique and results in sensationally simple usability to type on the phone for complex languages.
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Digital diaries

Not long back, research meant trudging down to the library, searching for journals through musty stacks and queuing up for the photocopier. But not anymore. Digital books will play a vital role since people today are more tech-savvy and time-conscious. Taking a cue from the trend, Punjab has acquired its first digital library, providing an access to swathes of information.
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Punjabiyat, Sikhi and Films

The need of the hour is to come up with an industry that can synergize the Punjabism and Sikhism and such industry should focus on the projects centered around realistic subjects addressing the issues of the modern and post-modern society.
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Say 'haan ji' to the Punjabi tee

"We believed that people from the community were moving away from their roots. Punjabi is hardly spoken nowadays, and that's sad because our culture is rich," says Kirandeep Kaur, product development manager at 1469, a novel T-shirt manufacturing firm that relies on Punjabi symbols, slogans and graphics.
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IK CHOTA BACHA & OTHER RHYMES ~ Book and Sing-Along CD Set ~ Review

The book and CD are the result of a collaboration between Ujjaldidar Singh Memorial Foundation and Kikli, two organizations committed to the education of Sikh children in Sikh values and Punjabi culture. The kavitas were inspired by the long-standing traditions of music and learning in Sikhi.
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Holding on to the Sikh heritage in the U.S.

Sikhs live by core principles that put more of an emphasis on spirituality in daily life — being constantly meditative of God, giving to others and earning a living through honest means. That less-didactic approach made it hard to instill the religion in a Sikh generation growing up in the West...
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