Children's games: kikli, gulli-danda, pithu
The games of the Punjabi village: girls spinning in kikli, boys at gulli-danda and pithu, and kites on every roof at Basant.
In kikli two girls cross arms, hold hands and spin round and round, singing 'kikli kalir di'; it grew into a dance of its own at fairs and in giddha. Kokla chhapaki is played in a circle, one child creeping round with a knotted cloth to drop behind another.
Boys played gulli-danda, striking a small wooden peg with a stick, and pithu, knocking down a pile of seven stones with a ball and rebuilding it before being hit. In spring the roofs of Lahore and Amritsar filled with kite-flyers.
More dress, sayings and games
The turban, the Punjabi suit, the tehmat and the chadra, the parandi in the hair and the jutti on the feet.
The sayings that season every Punjabi conversation, and the riddles told round the fire on winter nights.
From roka to doli: the rituals of a Punjabi wedding, and the songs that go with each one.
The platform under the big tree in the village square, where the men sat, talked, played cards and settled quarrels.
The pointed leather shoe of the Punjab, embroidered in gold and silver thread for weddings.
The woven string bed carried into the courtyard by day and onto the roof at night, and the low stool beside it.