Lahnda
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Pakistan Has a Dosa and Nobody Told You
“We Saraiki people make dosa,” my Urdu teacher told me. “We have a name for it: chilla.” A rice batter spread on a tawa and eaten with winter saag, in…
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How Pakistan Punjabified Lahnda and Urdufied Punjab
As Pakistan prepares to debate new provinces, X.T.M asks what Punjab is. He argues that colonial canals, Partition and the census folded Grierson’s Lahnda continuum into “Punjabi”, while the south…
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Suno Punjab
Watching the Pakistani drama Suno Chanda, the author hears Punjabi at length for the first time and asks why it is treated as a rustic Urdu, then explores the Lahnda-Eastern…
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The Siraiki question
Arguing the Siraiki language is the key question, the author sees Punjabi as a Hindawi pushback into the Lahnda-speaking West, notes Hindko and Siraiki as Lahnda remnants, and says a…
