Gurtej Singh Ji ,
I'm somewhat amazed to see that the language of Gujarati Hindus is Gujarati , Maharashtrian Hindus is Marathi , Kannada , Telugu , Tamil ,Malalyalam for Karnatka , Andhra , Tamil , Kerala respectively , Bengali Hindus for Bangali , Assamese for Assam Hindus , each states residents claim their regional language as their own then why in whole of India , only PUNJABI is singled out as the language of one community ie SIKHS , why not Punjabi Hindus claim it as the language of Punjabis as a whole . Why this discrimination reserved for Punjabi only . Recently I took a flight from Mumbai to Chandigarh , the passengers ( Punjabi Hindus ) in the flight while boarding from Mumbai were talking flawlessly in Punjabi even at the Airlines Check-In counter at the Mumbai Airport but immediately on reaching Chandigarh , all of them started conversing in Hindi . This was not the case of 4-5 persons but almost all the flight was full of TURNCOATS like them . Previously before 1947 it was the Muslims of Punjab who preferred to converse in Persian & Urdu now the Hindus of Punjab . To make the matters worse , the Sikhs have also adopted the ways of Hindus in HATING PUNJABI especially the urban Sikhs who have forgotton why they are Sikhs first of all , just following their Hindu brothers in rat race leaving each & everything behind . To compound it , the schools , colleges are all owned by Hindus who make it a point to make speaking Punjabi a crime in schools & colleges of Punjab , no matter how many times you converse with them in Punjabi , the reply will always come in HINDI . Whether it is just casually so or predetermined , I 'm not sure . But Sikhs have left Punjabi in the schools & colleges owned by them also where HINDI rules the roost . Sikhs need to wake up , if the young generation is not conversant in punjabi then it will not easily attach to Gurbani , also the community needs to open more & more schools , colleges instead of wasting thousands of crores in RAIN SABAI Kirtans , Roadside langars , chabeels , Kirtan darbars , nagar Kirtans , series of Akhand Paaths etc etc . Also make it a point to compulsarily speak Punjabi & hit back by persisting on Punjabi when ever confronted by Hindi .
