ओह हो, ओह हो हो ओ लाल मेरी पट रखियो बल झूले लालन – २ सिन्ध्ड़ी दा सेहवन दा सखी शाबाज़ कलंदर दमा दम मस्त कलंदर, अली दम दम दे अंदर दमा दम मस्त कलंदर, अली दा पहला नंबर ओ लाल मेरी, ओ लाल मेरी चार चराग तेरे बलां हमेशा – ३ पंजवा में बलां आई आन बला झूले लालन …

देश नारों से घिरा, मैं हर सितम को सह रहा हूँ, आँख के आंसू मैं देखो अब खडा मैं बह रहा हूँ। और अत्त्याचार मुझसे देश मैं देखे न जाएं– आज शिव सा ही गरल मैं पान करके कह रहा हूँ॥ भावना बैठी कहाँ है आप भी मन को कुरेदो। आप के बस का ना हो तो, देश किन्नरों को …

Looking at everything Haryanvi that has been hitting the silver screen, right from the hallucinating Mr Mandola to the Haryanvi spewing Datto, it seems Haryana and its inimitable dialect is the new flavour of the Bollywood season. The rustic dialect and the original accent ensured that the adorable Tanu and Manu did Return, and that too with a bang. When …

Legendary sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s bonding with Punjab spans over 50 years and now he makes this bond stronger by playing for an album—Gurbani: Songs of Divine Wisdom It was in 1964, more than 50 years back, that Ustad Amjad Ali Khan stepped on the Punjab soil for his first-ever concert, a relationship that only grew with each …

Nanik Amarnath Bhardwaj (Lala Amarnath: 11 September 1911 – 5 August 2000) was an Indian Test cricketer. He was the first cricketer to score a Test century for the Indian cricket team, which he achieved on debut. He was also independent India’s first Test captain, leading the team on a tour of Australia in 1947-1948. Amarnath was born in Kapurthala, …

Paul Valthaty is the player of Kings XI Punjab who gave outstanding performance in the Indian Premier League against champions Chennai Super Kings. Paul Valthaty made 120 runs in 63 balls in 2011 IPL 4 and Kings XI Punjab defeated Chennai Super Kings by six wickets on Wednesday, 13th April, 2011 at Mohali, and this century is his first fastest …

In 2008, Lalit Modi was instrumental in launching the Indian Premier League (IPL), a league based around Twenty20 cricket, where each team is limited to batting for a maximum of 20 overs. he also engineered the Indian Premier League’s move to South Africa in 2009 after the dates of the tournament clashed with the Indian general election and the Union …

Our weddings may have become grander than life but the old marriage songs, associated with sangeet functions, have gone missing in the rising clamour of item numbers It is the evening before the wedding day of their daughter in Gupta household. Everyone is super excited. Almost all relatives and friends from far and wide have already arrived to give their …

A Rajput is a member of one of the landowning patrilineal clans of central and northern India. Rajputs consider themselves descendants of one of the major ruling warrior groups of the Hindu Kshatriya Varna (social order) in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India. However this claim has been contested by various historians and scholars, from the medieval era to the …

The Navratri festival is dedicated to the Mother Goddess. Known by other names such as Durga, Devi, she occupies a special place in the Hindu pantheon. She represents Shakti, the cosmic energy that animates all beings, and is also considered to be prakriti (nature), the counterpart of purusha. Together, they are responsible for the creation of the world according to …