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My mum used to sing Punjabi folk songs while sewing. I still hear snippets of them in my head. Those snippets will be lost when I die. I’m 60, I can’t get a job in the industry I gave my life to, but that deep humiliation is nothing to the pain of knowing I failed to preserve my parents’ culture.

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Shahid Kamal Ahmad

@dancingmonkeys.net

23 May

Anyway, this is one song I do remember, newer, so YouTube has it. If you knew Punjabi, you’d understand just how poignant this is. We have a culture that goes back thousands of years. I was wrong to dismiss it in my youth. I’m paying the price for it now. youtu.be/Dyj4LSUZsWg

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Rhod

@rhodjp.bsky.social

24 May

A fundamental characteristic of all our cultures is change. Those songs helped you form thoughts, solve challenges, and share joy and love as you grew. You may not be able to playback the songs as they were, but you have widely shared and expanded their (and her) influence, in all that you do.