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-----Original Message-----

From: mymail Sent: 25 March 2004 11:25

To: Letters Worldservice

Subject:

To BBC World Service

Name Singh

Email myemail

Comments I was astonished to find that BBC is not available in

Punjabi/Gurmukhi Language despite there being very high no. of Punjabi

speakers(2nd highest after English) in Uk itself.

Also ur website is widely accessed from people of India, US and Pakistan

which also has a large Punjabi population

[Guest rsingh]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

I wondered why they didnt do it in panjabi aswell.

why is it Panjabi/Gurmukhi, sikhs in general are discrimated against in allmost everything, eastern/western/north/south watever. @

we can blame leadershi, etc but maybe we need to take a more active role ourselfs.

any one have any suggentions on what could be done

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

[Deep Singh]

so what do we do now?

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The problem lies within us. Sikhs in India are learning Hindi and most can't speak Punjabi, forget about reading or writing.

The Sikh Schools in India are at their worst.....and most parents send their Children to other schools....where they cant learn Punjabi

Western Sikhs learn English,French but not Punjabi

So where will the audiences come from????

As the BBC says that they need audience and their research shows that there isn't enough.

Do u expect the British Govt. to spend pounds and pounds for small number of people?

The fault doesn't lie with them.....it's with us

Actually we have failed to preserve and promote our language

Second thing we can do is contact Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government which controls and funds the language program of BBC. Anybody from UK??????

[DhadiMania]

get the bbc, or other channels 2 start showin punjabi stuff, half 4 in the morning they show japanese, chinese, french n other languages, so y cant they hav punjabi stuff 4 the kids? or programmes about preservin sikhii, doin parchaar?