Vote, Note and Cancer

There has been a substantial change in the government policy pertaining to advertisements of socially harmful substances. For the last several years our televisions were free from Ads  that promoted the consumption of cancer causing materials. Have you noted that these Ads have emerged once again?

Do not be surprised if the kids of your house get attracted towards carcinogenic things like Paan Masaalas. Somewhere in the corridors of power there has been a serious compromise with the welfare of the society. Aajtak channel, in particular is full of such Ads during Prime Time.

Your vote in favour of the corrupt politicians can surely affect the health and moral of the next generation. These far reaching consequences must be borne in mind before one goes to the polling booth. It is better to bring forward people who believe in honesty and humanity rather han those who are corrupt and communally biased. They would take VOTES from you and NOTES from the businessmen who popularise POISON and  give two hoots to the victims of CANCER.

E Coaching

A lot of technology is used in the modern day coaching.
First of all, exercises are prepared on plane sheets. All these exercises, along with some from help books, are scanned. A pdf file is made and uploaded to the Cloud storage. The student is provided with the down loading link on Whatsapp. He finishes the work sheets and takes a picture of each page. He sends them through Whatsapp. He sends audio files either through Gmail or Whatsapp. His work is checked by using various applications on the tablet PC. The checked work is sent back to him via Whatsapp. Thus a student who is doing MTech from Patiala is able to learn English from a teacher in Jagraon. A sample of the checked page is posted below.

Lohri Song

Sunder mundriye ho!
Tera kaun vicharaa ho!
Dullah Bhatti walla ho!
Dullhe di dhee vyayae ho!
Ser shakkar payee ho!
Kudi da laal pathaka ho!
Kudi da saalu paata ho!
Salu kaun samete!
Chache choori kutti! zamidara lutti!
Zamindaar sudhaye!
Bade bhole aaye!
Ek bhola reh gaya!
Sipahee far ke lai gaya!
Sipahee ne mari itt!
Bhaanvey ro te bhaanvey pitt!

It appears a bit difficult to comprehend the meaning of this poem written in Punjabi of the olden times. Despite being Punjabi myself only a little can be deciphered out of it. What ever little comes to my mind after reading it is as follows-

The people and their honour was at the mercy of the powerful in the so called 'Good old times'. Beautiful and innocent girls could not count on anyone except someone with a name called 'Abdulla Bhatti' or 'Dulla Bhatti'. A daughter could be married just by giving her a red Shawl even though it is quite a torn one. For sweets one Kg raw sugar was sufficient over the bonfire made in the woods. Still the big landlords find reason enough to summon the poor guys. And then his Sepoys have the cheek to beat these poor things with bricks because one of them could not turn up.
Quite chilly,Isn't it? But a marriage is a marriage and should be celebrated!
May be there is some other better translation. 
HAPPY LOHRI TO ALL