Eating Out at Lakshmi Chowk Lahore

Us friends having a custom made chicken karhaiee at Lakshmi Chowk Lahore. You can just feel the lahori life buzzing around you!

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[zanretsukenXII]

This deserting of our mother language Punjabi in Pakistan is a result of the highest form of ignorance (see: Jahil sooch) that ran rampant with our parents' generation thinking that speaking Urdu makes a person seem more educated, and speaking Punjabi is considered being educated. Such ironical ignorance and jahiliyat.

Such a big shame.

[imrangohar]

I fully agree with you zanretsukenXII. I believe we still have not been able to shun the legacy of our colonial past. Before maybe it was Urdu that people seemed to consider the language of the educated and these days it is English. Anyone who can speak good English today believes he is from the upper classes and has become a status symbol. I guess even India has the same problem.

Unfortunately this has become the norm among our current generation and a tragedy for us. Definitely a shame!!

[fropper]

do u guys even speak punjabi in Lahore ? I tried searching something on punjabis in pakistan, and all I could find was stage dramas ? is it dying language ?

[imrangohar]

Yes! we do speak Punjabi in Lahore but i agree that among the Lahori middle class Urdu and English is becoming the norm rather then Punjabi. Punjabi is becoming more of a rural language, spoken by villagers and the city's poor who weren't able to get a formal education. Thanks to our 'great' educational system Punjabi is definitely suffering but is not died yet.

[MAYOGARDENS]

English is the language of educated people. Panjabi is the language of Panjab. Each of the Pakistani languages are important. For Panjabis, it is of course Panjabi language and culture. You can even see it in the Bollywood movies, how it domonates everywhere. It is the time also to promote Pushto, Sindhi,Balouchi and other Pakistani languages. If we want pakistan to be united and strong we have to respect Pakistani languages. For education purposes we must learn English.

[waqarahmedkhan1]

@zanretsukenXII you made my day.

[alyjutt]

i love lahore man. Currently i am in UK. i want to fly and go back to Pakistan and to eat makhni karahi at Butt karahi in laxmi chowk ;(

[buttsahibjee]

english is language for english countries

[TheDesitexan]

I have lived in United States for 30 years and we still speak punjabi.Its not a dying language,whenever I go to Lahore,all I hear is punjabi,not sure what some of you are talking about.Sure urdu and english is common too but so is punjabi.By the way,defence and cantt area is not the real Lahore,its the newer Lahore.You want punjabi,go to the old and real Lahore.How many people do we hear sindhi in Karachi?

[pakimadarchod]

Lakshmi chowk? isnt that too much of an indian name there?

[pinkora]

mery jan lahore zindabad

[rosbuske66]

If Im talking to a person and I find out that this person know punjabi then I quickly change my talk into punjabi. I can simply not accept in my mind to talk in urdu to a person who knows punjabi, period!. If one is firm and love punjabi and use it often then this language dont have die.

[rosbuske66]

I have started to speak in punjabi with my kids. They understand me but they speak back in urdu..They are small now but when they are grown up I'll have them to speak only in punjabi to me or I wont answer thier talk.