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Oldies and punjabi folksongs 🫶🫶🫶
Ghulam Fatima of Bhera
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Monisha baita "salty fried pastry strips" kaho, namak paarey sounds too middle class.
Dad brought some salty fried pastry strips, why did I never know of this?
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Sammi meri waar 🧵🧵
All of you, must have heard this song "Sammi meri waar" being blasted at any Punjabi wedding, and maybe even danced to its beat, but have you wondered what the lyrics mean? And most importantly who the hell is this "Sammi"?
Maybe not cuz probably for you
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Hmm, seeing everyone cram their fridges and freezers with qurbani ka gosht, i was pretty curious as to how they preserved the gosht in a past not too far ago, only half a century before when no-one knew of a refrigerator.
So i asked my dado the desi way of meat preservation,
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Ok humanity, i take back my comments, there's still hope.
Today, after fajar prayers, the Moulvi sahab requested everyone in the village to pitch in everything that they can for the aid of people who have been displaced or affected by the flood. And for approximately three hours
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Lmao i saw this nine months pregnant lady climbing the mango tree to eat some mangoes all alone at fajr time, and then at two pm she went with her husband cuz she was having labour pains and at six pm she was back with her sixth son in her lap sitting behind her husband on his
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If one day i have to choose a piece of music to represent Pakistan, then by God i will choose this one. The simplicity, the melody, the beauty, the poetry. Absolutely hypnotic.
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Challa 🧵🧵
Like many folksongs from the land of Punjab, "Challa" also has a really fascinating backstory. You may have heard Challa sung by the folk music king, Shaukat Ali, or the much recent version by Gurdaas Maan, but have you ever wondered what is Challa?
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Lmao Punjabi naming is so random like,
There was a girl in the village "javeria" but her name was too exotic for the villagers so they called her "saabraan", but the oldies found even that difficult so they called her "saaben", and when she married her in-laws already had a
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Why do we need to focus on the Punjabi language? 🧵🧵
Punjabi being the language of at least ,at least 40% of country's population is one of the most neglected languages, and this is actually kind of government sponsored, as witnessed by the latest questionnaire released by
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Why are my uncles attacking eachother through poetry in the family group 😭😭😭
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Maybe many of you didn't know this but the festival of Holi is said to have originated in the ancient city of Multan, situated in modern day Punjab, Pakistan.
There are actually two legends that tell us the origin story of Holi:
One is the tale of Radha and Krishna's
What inclusivity & diversity looks like!
Kudos to the students of QAU for a number reasons:
-Keeping Jamiat out of the campus
-Organising events like this
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Chuhras; the local atheists 🧵🧵
One of the most explicit and commonly found yet enigmatic community of our Punjab is the chuhras or pakhi waas as they are known.
Tell me honestly that when passing by their tents, or wastelands, how many of you take a moment to think about
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My favourite part of pothohaar are these rock hewn houses. Especially when you go from hassan abdaal to attock, you see a few beautiful specimens alongside the track. People have told me these were the norm for pothohaar in the past.
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Straight, the residents of our village of approximately 6000 people, all of whom dependent on livestock and agriculture, ravaged by lumpy disease and crop diseases and continuous rains, kept on sending everything that they can.
From wheat to rice to corn to flour to lumber to
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Mera to mood fck hogya bhaisaab. Went to Centaurus today, and immediately upon entering came across a Pakistani couple communicating continuously to their 4 yr kiddo completely in English. And ew 🤢. I don't think I have ever been disgusted with slamabadis more.
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And upon Sammi's rejection abducted her and took her away far from her mother, never to be heard of ever again.
The poor old mother, hopeless and grief stricken, lost her mind. And wandered into cholistan searching for her precious daughter.
She would dance madly in the desert,
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Aj se no LUMS guy should dare to act superior in front of me here, maana you have good faculty and infrastructure but edi nikki jyi university le ke sharam nhi aundi NUST naal muqabla krdey o. Saadi ik department di maar o tusaan
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"Saaben" in the family, so she was called "SabbaaN" and when her id card was made, her official name was written "sabahat" mistakenly.
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Sugar to ghee to daals to clothes to shawls to cotton to utensils to crockery to everything that they could.
From the lady who only had 5 manns of wheat in her home, sending 1 mann for the flood affectees, to the old widow who only had 3 razais in her house sending 1 razai for
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Besides these methods for preserving meat, most qurbani da gosht was usually eaten and distributed immediately
On qurbani day, rotis weren't made and only meat was cooked with salt, yoghurt and imli and botyaaN eaten with bare hands.
That was the Eid before modernization.
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Update this village, a small, poor, primitive or as people say jaangli village, has been able to gather 30 kilogrammes of male and female used and new clothes since the morning.
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Qissa Mirza Sahiban; the last epic romance of Punjab 🧵🧵
The land of punjab, hides numerous untold stories of love, which are hidden deep under the tumultuous waters of the five rivers.
But four of these stories, were able to emerge above regional folklore and become the
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Them, to the lady who didn't had anything on her, but rather bought a kilo of sugar on loan or udhaar from the shopkeeper, and donated it, to the children who toiled the entire morning in cotton fields, picking every single cotton bud by hand just for 20 RS per kg, donating their
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Man i hate what has been done to my country. Extremism and hate and fear and death.
This is what pakistan will always be for me, the smile of a bearded elder with a pagg as he dances away all his worries to the tune of a folk instrument.
This is what it should be.
@fitnashah
The always ecstatic Allan Faqeer grooving to the tunes of Alghoza (played by Khamiso Khan)
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Jaangli jhummer 🧵🧵
Among the numerous enchanting folk dances of western Punjab, jhummer also known as ghummer or dhrees, is one of the oldest and most magnificent dances, especially in its manifestation in the once desolate sandal bar located in between river Ravi and Chenab.
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Whenever a mother is about to send her daughter away from herself, to someone else's house, she sings this. For she is also about to lose her Sammi.
This is the tale of how Sammi became the song of the bride's family hiding their sorrows behind the jovial beats of dholki.
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Most of these Punjabi folksongs are just worth their beat n nostalgia. But no every single song has a history behind it, especially the folksongs, so let's see what and who is Sammi?
The lyrics go as,
ماپیاں دے گھر پلیے نی سمی اے
دکھ دے کے چھڈ چلیے نی سمی اے
سمی میری وار۔۔۔۔۔
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Hard earned money, to the mazdoors who planted the rice in that muddy, dirty water, donating their wages for the flood victims to the lady who couldn't donate anything else so she presented her Wooden spoon to the flood fund.
Kudos to these humans who have kept humanity alive.
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Many people here ignore the fact that punjabis and Bengalis suffered the most from partition.
The amount of punjabis that died and migrated is like five to six times more than the *muhajirs*.
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Quite ironic that growing up in a Punjabi family who spoke Urdu with their younger generation, the only instances when my parents spoke in punjabi to me was when they were angry or taunting me or i knew I was about to get a beating.
So now sometimes when someone speaks Punjabi
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And she told me the following methods by which meat was preserved:
>The meat was boiled with a hefty amount of salt and then hung in a cage (chhika) on some cord, covered in a cloth. Meat preserved by this method would last a week or so without rotting.
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Multani ta'ziyas 🧵🧵🧵
Ta'ziya means comfort, condolence or expression of grief. It comes from the roots "aza" which means mourning.
In Iranian culture, it is categorised as a condolence theatre inspired by the historical and religious events of Karbala.
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The story is much more tragic.
Long ago, on the banks of River Sutlej, there lived a mother and her daughter, Sammi. Sammi grew up to be the most beautiful woman the land had ever seen. But then came misfortune. The Raja of Shorkot became smitten with her beauty.
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@mfhusayn
Fgs, my family is from jhang and while in recent times some people have start claiming they are siraiki, we still consider ourselves Punjabi, specifically jatki Punjabis. Don't impose your identity onto us like Punjabi identity was imposed unto you.
As for heer's tribe, the Sials
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And scream at the top of her lungs,
"Sammi meri waar mn waari...."
"O sammi! I sacrifice my life for you, sacrifice for you..."
But alas, she never found her Sammi, and died dancing and screaming in the vast expanse of cholistan. But she was not forgotten.
And to this day,
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There are no words for how much i missed this place. Feels good to be home finally.
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Rock metal fans been really quiet since this folk song dropped.
(The vocal range is insane ngl, also the quintessentially Punjabi background, vivāhñ dā akaTh and all. The coke studio version can never beat it. Am just in love with these dhol geets.)
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Putting another one of my favs here for you. It's probably my favorite rendition of Heer. The grief in the voice is just palpable. The torment and agony of separation and longing, of birhuN and vichora and hijr, that taangh, that sikk of the beloved.
Close your eyes and enjoy.
If one day i have to choose a piece of music to represent Pakistan, then by God i will choose this one. The simplicity, the melody, the beauty, the poetry. Absolutely hypnotic.
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Well i was raised in a Sunni household, claiming descent from Hazrat Farid ud din ganjshakar, people would say that we are barelvis because of khatams and langars waghera, but dada would refute them saying that barelvis to kl ki baat hn, we are Chishtis, Sunni Chishtis.
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>The best and most common way of preserving meat was by boiling meat, and a small amount of daal maash, and then grinding them both together with a slight sprinkle of chickpea flour. The mix was then shaped into triangular forms, called "waRiyaaN" which were then sun-dried
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I don't have Spotify but I do have a random YouTube playlist full of folk songs, classical music, qawwalis, etc. So anyhow give me a number from 1-400 and I'll give you that song from my playlist.
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Guys it's my dada's twelfth death anniversary. Kindly pray fateha for him.
He was the chaddest guy i knew. Bro was a Punjabi poet, a musician, a horse rider, a kabbadi player, a hakeem, a pir sahab, a zameendar, a sarpanch and the basest dada anyone could have.
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Also androon pindi 🫶🫶🫶
Can't believe i spent four hours just roaming mindlessly among these timeless alleys. Worth every step and moment there.
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Multan; a city that might be the closest thing to "koh qaaf". So extensively documented but it still remains hidden, shrouded in a veil of mysticism. Hiding secrets from thousands of years ago, it waits to be known whilst also retaining her purdah, her mystery.
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>Small chunks of meat were hung on a rope and rubbed with salt and later on dried under sunlight. This was a sight to behold, old ladies with sticks sitting besides haars of drying meat scaring away birds and flies. Such dry meat would last a long time.
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Which can be translated as,
"O sammi! You were raised by your parents
But now you have left leaving them aggrieved.
O Sammi! I sacrifice my life for you, sacrifice for you"
You might think that it's just the parents getting sad over their daughter being someone's else bride but
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>Boiled meat was placed in an earthen bowl and placed in water under a tree, and the water was regularly replaced with fresh water from the well every few hours.
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And hung on a rope, and used the entire year round.
Cooking daal or vegetables or rice, it was common to add a waRhi to impart the meaty flavour to the dish.
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How tf did our ancestors find out that crushed roasted barley flour dissolved in cold sugary water is such an awesome summer drink??
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Lahore and Amritsar; tragedy of the twin cities
Lahore and Amritsar were in many ways like twin cities with numerous people commuting daily between the cities with Lahore being a educational hub and Amritsar being more of a residential and holy city.
These two cities were
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Ancient harrapans talking to each other when their very elaborate sewerage system gets clogged:
"Aih kehrey painchod dalli de bchey ne inni waddi tatti keeti hegi aa?"
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Punjabi is a language which was nurtured not by the great kings or originated in the huge palaces, but rather it originated from an old lady's humming, nurtured by the great five rivers.
Unlike many contemporary languages, whose literature and origins can be traced, Punjabi
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It's good once in a while purely for nostalgia or maybe seeing fireflies and stars while you are half asleep.
But don't underestimate the zalalat of waking up at four before sun and makhiyaan attack you, and hundreds of birds speak in your ear and macchar lahoo luhaan you,
اور تم اے سی میں رہنے والے تمھیں کیا پتا
میرے گاؤں میں ایسے رات کو سونے کا کیا مزہ ہے
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Folks i discovered something exceptional today. A grave in NUST hidden in the woods only exposed because of the recent grounds expansion. No one knows anything about it here except the old workers who only know it's a very very old darbar.
Anyone got any leads. Super intrigued.
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*Amma abba in middle of an argument*
Amma:"Tere baap ke mobile mn 2600 contacts saved hain, mgr majaal hai jo ek bhi kaam ka ho, mukhlis ho."
Abba:"Ek haina."
Amma:"Konsa?"
*Abba goes on to recite amma's number*
🫠🫠🫠🫠
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Jatki Dholey 🧵
When one thinks of Punjabi music, one instantly conjures up a picture of bhangra, dhamaal or music accompanied by dhol, but much different and aloof from all this is a genre of ancient Punjabi folk singing, the "jaangli dholey" enshrouded in mystery.
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From this mehndi picture, I remember asking Dado that before partition and the influx of both Eastern Punjabi and Urdu immigrants and culture into the bars, how were weddings like for jaanglis?
And the myriad of customs she told me were so so interesting and yet mostly replaced
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Amrita Pritam born in 1919 in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, in present-day Pakistan, is very well-known in modern punjabi literature and even more so for her famed affair with sahir ludhianvi.
Amrita's mother died when she was eleven. Soon after, she and her father moved to
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Nayyara Noor (3 November 1950 – 21 August 2022) 🧵🧵
Rightly known as "Bulbul e Pakistan", Nayyara Noor was a Pakistani playback singer who is considered one of Indian subcontinent's popular film songs playback singer and a stage performer. She performed in the live ghazal
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Saw a video of a distant family friend from quite an upper class family wearing a dhoti and a beautifully tied turrey aali pagg at his own baraat and ngl he slayed.
We need to start to decolonize every aspect of our life and get rid of looking down at our own culture.
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Ngl Pakistan might lag behind the world in every aspect but our biscuits slay. Candi, sooper, lemon sandwich, rio, gluco, cafe, khatai, chocolatto, gala. They all are the best.
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May no mum ever experience her child dying.
This lady's son died suddenly cuz of a heart attack, a young man of twenty years and now every time i pass by the qabristaan i see her hugging the dusty grave and crying and if she ever sees someone passing by, stops them to tell them
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Bruh pakpattan is surely gonna be a wahabbi's nightmare ngl.
Not a single gali without a centuries old darbar, not a single muhalla without some unnamed old grave full of flowers and mannat ke dhaagey, not a single street without malangs.
Baba sahbb, badr dewan, khwaja sahb, ....
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Guys! A bit of good news, our bakri gave birth to two kiddos. AHHHHHHHH, i miss home sm after these pics ngl.
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This video always leaves me in tears. The pallbearers even when being brutally beaten, didn't let the coffin hit the ground. That's coviction, that's resistance. That's Palestine.
Till the day I die, I will never forget this scene. From the procession of the late Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral, on May 12, 2022, in Ramallah, one day after her assistantion by IDF forced in Jenin Camp.
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Particularly this door. Ufffff, the floral motifs 🔥
Also the breathtaking woodwork on these jharokas and doors. Simply marvellous.
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Man I can't believe there are some people who only have experienced smog growing up, or who are only going to experience the winter as a blanket of smog growing up.
They would never know the crisp freshness of a Punjabi morning shrouded in mysterious blanket of pure white dhundh.
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guys i cant afford a house in F7 in my 5 lac per month job, im clearly at the poverty line 😔
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Nothing just madhubala is here to brighten your TL with her smile.
P.S. she had a hundred wounds hidden underneath.
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Haji Sher: The oldest shrine of the Subcontinent?
Near River Sutlej, in tehsil Burewala, District Vehari about 75 km from pakpattan and about 125 km from multan is situated a rather ignored and small shrine but one whose history and tradition predates many others.
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Since today is the Urs of Pir Waris Shah, one of the greatest Punjabis ever, I would like to share this page from his "Heer Waris Shah", one of my favourite ones there.
All the rhyming words at the end of each verse ending in -āTiyey are gaaliyaan by Heer's mum for her.
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Later on his younger brother Shaukat Ali recorded and immortalised Challa in his enchanting voice. And till date Challa echoes throughout Punjab as the lamentations of Jhalla Malah for his Challa.
او گل سن چھلیا چھورا
او دل نوں لایا اے جھورا!
او چھلا مڑ کے نہی آیا۔۔۔۔
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I am not a religious person at all, but I jus love the vibes of shrines. So many stories there and obv the history and culture.
I wanna visit all of these again sm especially pakpattan one
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On one side you are crying about Pakistani Urban elites giving up on their culture, language and tradition and on the other side you are saying every festival except Eid should be prohibited like just pick a side?
Arab culture is also not the indigenous culture of this land.
These people who sit in the power corridors pick up ideas from the West, mostly degenerate ones and try to impose it on the country
Also celebrating any festival apart from Eid in Pakistan should not be acceptable, it is time they stop normalising that stuff
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Ranjit Singh literally named his sons Multana Singh, Peshora Singh and Kashmira Singh 💀💀💀💀
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Damnnnnnn my village is so pretty fr, may it always remain free from the shar of urbanism.
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Why in most of these discussions people from Eastern Punjab aren't considered as muhajirs also? Even though their death count was much higher compared to the Urdu speaking muhajirs, atleast twice or thrice as much. Didn't they also lay their lives for Pak?
@TheDonnieDarko1
It failed Muhajirs - the one who laid their lives and made Pak what it it's too.
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Ok finally i can remember all the desi months purely from memory. Yayyyy
Chaitr
Visaakh
JeTh
HaaR
Saavan
BhaaduN
Assu
Katey
Maghur
Poh
MaaNh
Phaggun
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Hamlet was originally written in Jatki Punjabi by Fitna Shah. Shakespeare's English version is corrupted by original. Twt user Sassri also wrote Hamlet in siraiki, a dialect of Jatki. It is indeed a Jatki folktale, regardless of how many other languages it has been written in.
Heer was originally written in Saraiki by Damodar Das. Waris Shah's Punjabi version is corrupted by original. Sachal Sarmast also wrote Heer in pure Saraiki. It is indeed a Saraiki folktale, regardless of how many other languages it has been written in.
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