{"id":129430,"date":"2018-02-13T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=129430"},"modified":"2018-02-13T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:45:13","slug":"dont-glorify-gunsliquor-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/dont-glorify-gunsliquor-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dont glorify guns,liquor &drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Switch on the TV, tune into the radio, or just Google \u2014 the relationship of Punjabi pop music with guns, liquor, drugs, and lately gangsterism, is everywhere. The police in Punjab are seeking to pull the plug now, by talking to singers.<\/p>\n

As part of a plan by the force\u2019s state chief, director general of police Suresh Arora, senior superintendents of police (SSPs) have been told to hold meetings and urge singers not to fan this culture.
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\nOne such meeting was held on February 9 by the Batala SSP, Opinderjit Singh Ghuman, with singer Ranjit Bawa.<\/p>\n

Bawa appeared encouraged, if one goes by his Facebook post the next day. Sharing a photo with the SSP at the latter\u2019s office, he praised the action against \u201csangeetak (musical) pollution\u201d; and further wrote: \u201cBahut changa uprala hon jaa rehae; aas karda haan ki Punjabi sangeet aun wale samey vich kafi changa hovega (Very good initiative being carried out;<\/p>\n

I hope Punjabi music in future will be much better),\u201d adding, \u201cI hope that songs without guns and liquor are sung; and the audience too listens to good music and that lyricists too write good lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Switch on the TV, tune into the radio, or just Google \u2014 the relationship of Punjabi pop music with guns, liquor, drugs, and lately gangsterism, is everywhere. The police in Punjab are seeking to pull the plug now, by talking to singers. As part of a plan by the force\u2019s state chief, director general of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66151,66149,11321,17225,56367,66150,10215,18572],"class_list":["post-129430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-batala-ssp","tag-dont-glorify-guns","tag-drugs","tag-guns","tag-liquor","tag-liquor-drugs","tag-punjabi","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/e3-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}