Literature & Movies

My translations (14 Leo Tolstoy stories) English to Punjabi

1. Three Questions (ਤਿੰਨ ਸਵਾਲ)

2. Grain as big as egg (ਅੰਡੇ ਜਿੰਨਾ ਵੱਡਾ ਦਾਣਾ)

3. Esardon: King of Syria (ਐਸਾਰਡਨ: ਸੀਰੀਆ ਦਾ ਰਾਜਾ)

4. God is where love is (ਜਿਥੇ ਪਿਆਰ ਓਥੇ ਰੱਬ)

5. God is not in hurry (ਰੱਬ ਨੂੰ ਕਾਹਲ ਨਹੀਂ) 

6. How much land a man need (ਕਿੰਨੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਨ ਚਾਹੀਦੀ ਹੈ) 

7. Candle (ਮੋਮਬੱਤੀ)

8. Coffee house (ਕੌਫੀ ਹਾਊਸ)

9. Spark (ਚੰਗਿਆੜੀ)

10. Three hermits (ਤਿੰਨ ਸਾਧ)

11. Too dear (ਮਹਿੰਗਾ ਸੌਦਾ)

12. Two brothers (ਦੋ ਭਰਾ)

13. What a man lives for (ਮਨੁੱਖ ਕਿਸ ਲਈ ਜਿਓੰਦਾ ਹੈ)

14. Little girls wiser than old men (ਨਿੱਕੀਆਂ ਕੁੜੀਆਂ ਬੁਢਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਸਿਆਣੀਆ)  

Next book for translation in Punjabi - Conquest of happiness (Prof Bertrand Russell nobel laureate, british professor of mathematics and philosophy)

Conquest of happiness (working on it)

Non-commercial and non-popular (art) movies I loved:

1. Life Stinks (1991) - A CEO who shows little regard to other people becomes sensitive to life after spending 1 month in the slum area of Los Angeles. This movie will make you laugh and cry at the same time.

2. Simple life of noah dearborn (1999) - An anonymous rural carpentar 90 years old but looks like 40 since he is away from all the materials of the world (even without electricity) and just loves his work. A psychologist comesto fix him but he fixes the psychologist.

3. The last stand (2013) - Arnold is a simple sheriff in a small town, but takes down a vicious crime lord who even escaped from FBI custody. Simple people doing big things.

4. Gods must be crazy (1980)

5. Mittar Pyare Nu (1975) based on Novel by Boota Singh Shad.

6. Madi Da Deeva (1987) based on Novel by Gurdial Singh

Useful research videos:

Three minutes research presentation

https://youtu.be/D_1MK3Ub9QM?si=TA667segoevFWJNX - for guidance

https://youtu.be/Q-0os7z7aJ4?si=WUlz2AYQMwAZHlmo - as a sample

Literature still to read:

Alberto Moravia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Moravia

Franz Kafka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka