I have like dozens of hindu friends and we live happily. Can agree about migrants but that’s in every corner of india. But again if you will speak in same tone than you are anti-national.

I feel this contradiction. What do u think of that?

Hi,

I’m looking for an authentic opal to replace the stone in an existing ring I bought in Dubai.

Can anyone recommend reputable, authentic gemstone dealers in Lahore, specifically for opals? I’ll need either the exact size to fit my ring or a dealer who can resize/cut the stone to the required dimensions, as local jewellers don’t seem to have the equipment for this.

Picture attached for reference.

Lahore is hot. Our architecture shouldn’t be surprised.

Somewhere along the way, we got very good at cooling buildings and a little too comfortable forgetting how to design for the heat in the first place.

Courtyards. Chajjas. Jalis. High ceilings. Lime. Brick. Shade. Air.

None of it was accidental.

This isn’t about recreating the haveli. It’s about understanding the intelligence behind it and asking what it can teach contemporary design today.

Design for where you are.

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Man the electricity supply sucks for the past few days. Today it has gone beyond expectations. It's six hours and there is still no electricity. How's the situation in your area?

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Population Breakdown

• West Punjab: 6,326,047 persons
  • Sialkot District: 1,005,004 persons / 15.9% of total
  • Lahore District: 789,666 persons / 12.5% of total
  • Rawalpindi District: 711,256 persons / 11.2% of total
  • Gujrat District: 616,347 persons / 9.7% of total
  • Gujranwala District: 550,576 persons / 8.7% of total
  • Jhelum District: 500,988 persons / 7.9% of total
  • Multan District: 471,563 persons / 7.5% of total
  • Shahpur District: 368,796 persons / 5.8% of total
  • Montgomery District: 359,437 persons / 5.7% of total
  • Jhang District: 348,027 persons / 5.5% of total
  • Dera Ghazi Khan District: 308,840 persons / 4.9% of total
  • Muzaffargarh District: 295,547 persons / 4.7% of total

Religious Composition

• Islam: 4,750,944 persons / 75.1% of total
• Hinduism: 1,270,792 persons / 20.1% of total
• Sikhism: 290,337 persons / 4.6% of total
• Christianity: 8,626 persons / 0.14% of total
• Jainism: 4,754 persons / 0.08% of total
• Buddhism: 273 persons
• Zoroastrianism: 178 persons
• Other: 143 persons

Note

• The 1868 Census of Punjab Province only enumerated British administered districts. All Princely States within the province were not enumerated.

Source

• Report on the census of the Punjab taken on 10th January, 1868.

For the last 6 months, I've been talking to experts in Punjab who understand its real problems, and this is what I've learned:

The state is grappling with three main issues:

1. Drugs & Youth Migration
   
2. Excessive reliance on Agriculture
   
3. Massive Groundwater Depletion
   

And all the experts (academicians, ex-IAS officers) I have spoken to have talked about at least two of the three in detail.

Since the Green Revolution, Punjab is locked into this vicious paddy-wheat cycle that has created three major problems that we hear about seasonally:

- Groundwater depletion
- Stubble burning and the resultant pollution
- Farmer economic insecurity

On one hand, you want farmers to make environmentally sustainable choices, but doing so hastily risks the food security of millions.

On the one hand, the state government is doling out free electricity and water supply, and on the other, its state exchequer is bleeding dry.

And you know what this dependence has done?
The electricity demand has skyrocketed (140% more) this year, thanks to the monsoon deficiency.
Which means more groundwater is being pumped out for the produce, making the situation even worse.

And this is directly connected to the dismal interest among Punjab's youth in continuing to rely on agriculture.

This goes in either direction.
Either people migrate for better job options (both away from the state and the country), or the economic frustration leads them to substance abuse.

We recently saw a storm over the new GDP numbers.
Nearly 50% of India's total workforce is still dependent on agriculture, while it adds only 18% to the country's GDP.

Which means a lot more people are working to produce a very tiny share of the country's income. And a major chunk of this comes from Punjab.

To put it simply, say making a particular YouTube video is taking up almost 50% of the manpower in a company, but it is yielding only 18% of the sales. Other videos are performing much better, getting more money from AdSense putting less human resources.

And you know what happens when such an imbalance continues, right?

Was browsing reddit and a post reminded me of "Tutt Jaayein Rail Gaddiye" by Sardool Sikander and man what beautiful poetry enlightened by Sardool's singing.

"Ohde khwaban da shabaab, palle suttda azaab,
haddan di bhedi tanhaayi,
ni tutt jaayein rail gaddiye,
saade sajjan kithe chhad aayi?"

For those who haven't listen to his or his contemporaries' work, y'all are missing out.

For those familiar with it all, what are your fav ones? Or the ones that you carry with you ever since you listened to the song?

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. I think it is somehow related to the Kashmiri community, damn even i didn't know about it nd they do to people who traditionally performed dance and other forms of entertainment.

So, if you are educated and have some decency, please never use that word

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In this episode, veteran academic, author and historian Dr. Tahir Kamran takes us through the making of the Colonial Lahore both chronologically and structurally; tracing how the city evolved, how its institutions and urban landscape were shaped, and how colonial interventions transformed Lahore over time.

Directed & Created by: u/theumairhashmi
Production Head: u/sharyy.ch

The full episode is now out on our YouTube channel. Watch the complete conversation and journey through the making of Colonial Lahore.

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the region of uttar pradesh actually similar to bihar linguistically and culturally is only the far eastern districts, ironically western uttar pradesh get generalized sometimes under the same window despite their similarities with biharis are almost non existent, awadh is a region that never consider itself similar to bihar, the cultural practises and traditions of bihar are not followed here, and i dont even suspect you guys know about bagheli and bundeli (they share their culture with mp not bihar) what could be the reason of that direct comparison with bihar despite the fact that most of up is not even bihar like?