SHAMEEL JASVIR
JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR
MY WORLD OF PUNJABI MEDIA, LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
Useful Links
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Punjabi is the 9th most-spoken language in India, 3rd most-spoken language in Canada, 4th most-spoken language in England and the most-spoken language in Pakistan ( and ironically, has no official status).
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Punjabi speaking population in India is only 2 percent in the country, but most of the academic, research, publication and institutional work on Punjabi is happening in India. Number of Punjabi publications in Pakistan is the lowest in the world.
Online Encyclopedia of Punjabi language and Culture
The most comprehensive Punjabi font-converter by Punjabi University Patiala
http://gurmukhifontconverter.com/
Sangam: Gurumukh-Shamukhi transliteration by Punjabi University Patiala
http://g2s.learnpunjabi.org/default.aspx
Punjabi OCR
http://www.tdil-dc.in/index.php?option=com_download&task=showresourceDetails&toolid=1825&lang=en
Punjabi designer fonts:
about me
Twenty years ago, when I was beginning my career in journalism, it was a different era. We would design newspaper pages with the old paste-up technique. Fast forward twenty years later, I recently learned languages of the internet—HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
My career has been a witness to the merging of an old era into a new one, that too only in the period of last one decade.
What an experience it has been! I had opportunities to experience and perform almost every role in my profession-- reporter, sub-editor, news editor, television reporter, television anchor, producer, news-coordinator, digital and social media coordinator, media entrepreneur and editor of a daily newspaper. To someone who seeks out challenges, this was the best that life could have offered
