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Punjabi cinema
Punjabi cinema, or Pollywood, is the Punjabi-language film industry centered in Indian Punjab with a large diaspora audience. It began in Lahore with Daughters of Today (1929) and the first talkie Ishq-e-Punjab (1935), and now spans India, Pakistan, and overseas markets.
Punjabi clothing
Punjabi clothing (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪਹਿਰਾਵਾ), traditional dress of the Punjab: salwar kameez and Patiala salwar, kurta with tehmat and dastar, phulkari and bagh embroidery, and the jutti.
Punjabi cuisine
Punjabi cuisine, the food of the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, is a wheat-and-dairy tradition defined by tandoor cooking, ghee and butter, dishes like butter chicken, dal makhani, and sarson da saag, and the Sikh langar community meal.
Punjabi culture
Culture of the Punjabi people of Punjab (land of five rivers), spanning Indian and Pakistani Punjab; bhangra and giddha dance, Punjabi language in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts, rich cuisine, festivals like Baisakhi, and the shared cross-religious heritage called Punjabiyat, reshaped by the 1947 Partition.
Punjabi Duniya
Punjabi Duniya (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਦੁਨੀਆ) is a weekly Punjabi-language newspaper published from New York since April 2005, edited by Sharanjit Singh Thind and covering Punjab, diaspora, and international news.
Punjabi film music
Punjabi film music is the soundtrack industry of Punjabi cinema (Pollywood), where singers star in the films, labels finance both, and soundtracks are promoted months before release.
Punjabi ghazal
The Punjabi ghazal (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਗ਼ਜ਼ਲ) is the ghazal, a poem of self-contained rhyming couplets, written in Punjabi rather than Persian or Urdu, its popularity shaped by Urdu poetry.
Punjabi Hindus
Punjabi Hindus, also called Hindu Punjabis, are the Hindus of the Punjab region, about 38% of Indian Punjab in 2011, second to Sikhs, with a history shaped by the Arya Samaj and the 1947 Partition.
Punjabi kafi
Punjabi kafi (ਕਾਫ਼ੀ, کافی) is a short Sufi lyric poem of the Punjab, written to be sung, carried by poets from Shah Hussain to Bulleh Shah.
Punjabi language
Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), also spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab with over 100 million speakers, written in Gurmukhi in India and Shahmukhi in Pakistan, official in Indian Punjab but without official status in Pakistan.
Punjabi language movement
The Punjabi language movement was a series of intellectual and literary campaigns in Pakistani Punjab, beginning after independence in 1947, that defended Punjabi against the state's imposition of Urdu.
Punjabi literary criticism
Punjabi literary criticism is evaluative, interpretive, and historical writing on Punjabi-language literature across India, Pakistan, and the diaspora, with formal foundations laid by Ahmad Yar and modern historiography established by Mohan Singh Dewana in 1933.
Punjabi modernist poetry
Punjabi modernist poetry is poetry in Punjabi from around 1850 onward that broke with devotional and Sufi verse, pioneered by Bhai Vir Singh and Dhani Ram Chatrik.
Punjabi Nazm
Punjabi Nazm (پنجابی نظم) is the non-ghazal category of Punjabi poetry, adopted from the Urdu tradition, treating a single subject in stanzas; Surjit Patar popularized it.
Punjabi novel
The Punjabi novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in the Punjabi language, written in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts across Indian and Pakistani Punjab since 1898.
Punjabi Sahitya Akademi
The Punjabi Sahitya Akademi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਾਹਿਤ ਅਕਾਦਮੀ) is an association of Punjabi writers based at Punjabi Bhavan in Ludhiana, founded in 1954, that promotes Punjabi literature and book reading.
Punjabi short story
The Punjabi short story is a prose fiction genre in the Punjabi language, written in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts, that emerged in the twentieth century.
Punjabi Suba movement (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸੂਬਾ ਲਹਿਰ)
Punjabi Suba movement (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸੂਬਾ ਲਹਿਰ), 1947–1966 agitation led by the Akali Dal under Master Tara Singh and Sant Fateh Singh for a Punjabi-speaking state; achieved by the Punjab Reorganisation Act 1966, creating Haryana and Chandigarh.
Punjabi Sufi poetry
Punjabi Sufi poetry is mystical verse in Punjabi by Muslim Sufi poets, beginning with Baba Farid and carried to its peak in the kafis of Bulleh Shah (1680–1757).
Punjabi trap
Punjabi trap is a music genre blending trap production, marked by 808 sub-bass and triplet hi-hats, with Punjabi vocals, emerging in the mid-2010s in Punjab and the diaspora.
Punjabi wedding traditions
Punjabi wedding traditions (viah, ਵਿਆਹ) are the week-long sequence of Punjabi marriage customs: roka, maiyan, mehndi, jaggo, chooda, baraat, milni, doli, capped by the Sikh Anand Karaj, Hindu pheras, or Muslim nikah.
Punjabis (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ)
Punjabis (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) are the ethnolinguistic people of the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, speaking Punjabi in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts, following Islam, Sikhism, and Hinduism, and reshaped by the 1947 partition and a global diaspora.
Punji stick
The punji stick, or punji stake, is a sharpened, often poisoned bamboo or steel stake set in hidden traps, most associated with Viet Cong tactics in the Vietnam War.
Punk fashion
Punk fashion: the mid-1970s anti-fashion dress style of the punk subculture, centered on Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's SEX/Seditionaries shop at 430 King's Road, defined by ripped clothes, safety pins, bondage trousers, dyed hair, and DIY customization.
Punk ideologies
Punk ideologies: the political outlooks of punk subculture, chiefly anarchism, anti-authoritarianism, and DIY ethics, from 1970s shock-tactic anarchy through 1980s anarcho-punk, Crass, Class War, CrimethInc., and far-right strands.
Punk rock
Punk rock, also known as punk music, is a rapid rock style that emerged in the mid-1970s in the UK and US. It is defined by DIY culture.
Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival (festival)
Punk Rock Bowling, or Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival, is an annual punk rock festival held on Memorial Day weekend in downtown Las Vegas, founded in 1999.
Punk rock in California
Punk rock in California: the state's punk tradition from 1977, spanning the Hollywood scene (X, Germs), Orange County hardcore (Black Flag, Social Distortion), Bay Area punk (Dead Kennedys, SST, Lookout), and the 1990s Green Day-led mainstream boom.
Punk Rocky
Punk Rocky (PUNK ROCKY) is a January 5, 2026 single by A$AP Rocky and lead single of Don't Be Dumb, his first album in eight years; it interpolates Blink-182's All the Small Things, with a Winona Ryder video co-directed by Rocky, Verdoorn, and Becks.
Punk subculture
Punk subculture: a DIY youth culture built around punk rock, zines, small labels, and fashion, emerging in 1970s New York and London and spanning hardcore, post-punk, riot grrrl, and emo offshoots.