So instead of writing meaningful ‘Oithe amla de hone ne nabade kisse ne teri jaat puchni’, there is undue emphasis on meaningless words. Today, there is little originality or creativity, only mediocrity, that too is recycled endlessly. “There is no denying that what we read or hear impacts us. Surjit Patar, poet and chairperson of the Punjab Arts Council, rues that nothing substantial or soulful is emanating from Punjabi music.
Not that he is suggesting that all is well with Punjabi music today he is only driving home the point that the criticism, earlier confined to a few, has snowballed into a huge number. As for the use of the word Jatt, way back Surinder Kaur and Harcharan Grewal sang Main Vi Jatt Ludhiane Da’. The stalwarts, the best, whom we hold in great esteem, have not only lent their voice to lachar songs, but even referred to relations which fall way off the sanctioned norms. An encyclopedia on Punjabi music, he talks about various genres and artistes of Punjabi music, including traditional folk ones, and asks, “The biggest names in the Punjabi music world have sung songs laced with double meaning. Shamsher Singh Sandhu, the lyricist who has given us many hit songs, can't understand what the fuss is all about. It is blamed for promoting violence and vulgarity, and now it is being indicted for overuse of the word ‘Jatt’ as well. Of all industries, the Punjabi music world gets maximum flak. If the rich and famous of the glamour world are at the receiving end, films are criticised for either being too virtuous or too amoral, or even for being not real enough.
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It is as if the moral and ethical code of society hinges upon celebrities alone.
If one didn’t know better, one would assume the entertainment industry is responsible for all that ails our society, and not people living in it. Applause follows brickbats, cheers equalise jeers. Ajay Devgn is called out by a fan suffering from cancer indirectly blaming him for endorsing a paan masala brand.Īs much as we adulate our celebrities, our response is equally acerbic to what we perceive are their misdemeanours. Twitterati scoffs at Sonam Kapoor for expressing her opinion on an incident involving the brutal murder of a toddler at Aligarh erroneously linking it with her views on Kathua rape. Akshay Kumar is trolled for not casting his vote. Luv Ranjan's superhit films are dismissed as outright misogynist.
Rabbi Shergill feels Jattisation of the Punjabi music is dangerous. This journal has appeared annually since 1935 except for five different years when the annual sessions of the Indian History Congress could not be held.Is the entertainment industry to be blamed for all that ails our society and not people living in it? Then why does the moral and ethical core of society hinges upon celebrities alone? Thus there has been a growth of papers on women’s history, environmental and regional history. The papers included in the Proceedings can be held to represent fairly well the current trends of historical research in India.
The journal has constantly taken the view that ‘India’ for its purpose is the country with its Pre-Partition boundaries, while treats Contemporary History as the history of Indian Union after 1947. The addresses of the General President and the Presidents of the six sections generally take up broad issues of interpretation and historical debate. The annual journal of the Indian History Congress, entitled The Proceedings of the Indian History Congress carries research papers selected out of papers presented at its annual sessions on all aspects and periods of Indian History from pre-history to contemporary times as well as the history of countries other than India.
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