Sir: Culture and language are directly related to each other. When one is lost the other is hard to find as well. Historically culture had been abandoned as was done during the Renaissance movement by the west to make inroads to a new modern path of progress and development on the back of scientific knowledge and secular adaptations. What came out of that movement were progressive nations that depended on the ethics of hard work, honesty and self-discipline to become successful. Therefore the transition in culture did not take them into the wilderness; it in fact lashed them into a unity of purpose. But in our country the leaving out of culture is being done without vision or purpose. We are following different models of success to become successful ourselves, resultantly we are neither here nor there. The desire to aspire to the western culture has made Urdu almost a taboo. In fact it is considered a matter of pride to show indifference to the language. The domino effect of this mental suffering could not have been escaped by other languages, such as Punjabi. As a corollary, with languages thrown on the backburner, history, folklores and tradition have all been allowed to rot. Ali Khan Lahore