Kuch Palan Di Saanjh (Composition)
Shares a fellow blogger’s guitar and vocal musical composition set to the author’s earlier poem about caste prejudice in relationships.
ਆਜ਼ਾਦੀ ਦਾ ਡਰਾਮਾ/Freedom Show
A poem satirizing hollow patriotism and political hypocrisy amid terror attacks and turmoil across South Asia, translated from Punjabi to English.
Brilliante Award
The author announces receiving the Brilliante blog award and passes it on to five favorite Punjabi-language and culture blogs.
ਥੈਲਾ ਬੋਰੀ / Bag
A poem imagining wishing to be a gunny sack instead of a man, so one could be turned inside out and freed of pent-up burdens.
Kujh Palan Dee Saanjh/ਕੁਝ ਪਲਾਂ ਦੀ ਸਾਂਝ
A poem reflecting on how a brief romantic bond was reduced to a fleeting acquaintance because of caste differences.
Daily Links 12/01/09
A roundup of daily links on GPS devices in India, a feminism debate around the Noida rape case, a Punjabi typing tool, and a Punjabi word of the day.
ਕਾਕੂ ਤੇ ਕਾਟੋ/kaakoo te kaato
A nostalgic poem recalling a simple village shepherd boy, Kaku, whose innocent world was later lost to modernization.
ਜਨੀਨ ਪਿੰਡ ਦੀ ਮਾਂ / zaneen pind dee maaN
A poem about a Palestinian mother standing amid the rubble of her bombed home, and the world’s willful blindness to her suffering.
ਮਿੱਟੀ ਦੀ ਢੇਰੀ/mitti di dheri
A poem likening life and love to a heap of dust scattered by successive storms, evoking loss and uncertain belonging.
ਜ਼ੀਰੋ/Zero
A poem using the mathematical zero as a metaphor for a civilization that has lost its own path and merely follows others, invoking Guru Nanak’s legacy.