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Research by Teesside University shows that the British Punjabi community is one of the most highly educated and successful in the UK. [24] Notable businesspeople include Surinder Arora who ranks amongst the wealthiest Britons. [25] [26] Other Punjabis have achieved notability in the theatres of British politics, sports and entertainment. [27]
Jassi Sidhu – bhangra singer and the former lead singer of British Indian bhangra band B21; Jay Sean – R&B artist; Juggy D – bhangra, Punjabi music, R&B; Malkit Singh – Punjabi bhangra]] singer; Manj Musik – music composer, singer; Manni Sandhu – music director; Ms Scandalous – bhangra/rap artist; Naughty Boy – rapper, musician ...
Harjeet Atwal (Punjabi: ਹਾਰਜੀਤ ਅਤਵਾਲ, born 8 August 1952) is a British Punjabi writer and novelist. [1] He has written more than 20 books and he is also the editor of Punjabi magazine Shabad. [2] He is also known as a storyteller and poet. Now he lives in London with his wife and three children.
Shardha Ram Phillauri (September 1837 [2] – 24 June 1881) was an Indian writer, poet and social reformer, known for his contributions to Hindi and Punjabi literature.He is best known for his Hindu religious hymn Om Jai Jagdish Hare and Bhagyawati, one of the first novels in Hindi.
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, [g] is an Indo-Aryan language natively spoken by the Punjabi people. Punjabi is the most popular first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 million native speakers as per the 2017 census, and the 11th most popular in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, as per the 2011 census.
Sharma is a British-Indian, a British-Punjabi and a British-Hindu. He has been married to Nirmala Sharma since 1968. They have a son and daughter and three grandchildren. [22] He has been the vice-chair of APPG for British-Hindus. [3] In addition to English, Sharma is fluent in his native Indian languages of Hindi and Punjabi.
In Punjab, instead of religion, the Akalis launched the Punjabi Suba movement aimed at creation of a Punjabi-majority subah ("province") in the erstwhile East Punjab state of India in the 1950s.In 1966, it resulted in the formation of the Punjabi speaking -majority Punjab state, the Haryanvi-Hindi-majority Haryana state and the Union Territory ...
Punjabipedia aims to promote the Punjabi language worldwide and make it one of the most popular languages of world as a part of "Mission Punjabi 2020". [2] On February 26, 2014, Devinder Singh, director, planning and monitoring head of Punjabi University and coordinator of the Punjabipedia said that Punjabipedia will be available in Gurmukhi script and will be more reliable and authentic in ...