Tharike is a village in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, India.
Tharike is located on the outskirts of Ludhiana city. It's approximately centered at 30°52′01″N 75°46′52″E / 30.86694°N 75.78111°E. Jhande (1.5 km), Lalton Khurd and Lalton are the nearby villages.
Punjabi is the mother tongue as well as official language of the village. The people mostly are Sikhs with other minorities.
As of 2001 census, the village has the total population of 8884 with 4773 males and 4111 females thus males constitutes 54% and females 46% of population with the sex ratio of 861 females per thousand males.
A well known Punjabi writer and songwriter/lyricist, Dev Tharike Wala, belongs to this village.
It took time, took time to develop a concept
A new me
based upon the traits from which I could not flee
It took time, took time to embrace the nature
All my dreams
All this time just turned into a sad long wait
This sad long tale of moments passé
must come to an end before it is too late
Wasn't born to hate, I was made to love
but I never knew it was so hard
It took time, took time to accept the fact
that one must lose
everything except what you do not choose
It's taken time, long time and yet more time
it will take
before my heart is free and brave enough to break
This sad long tale of moments passé
must come to an end before it is too late
Wasn't born to hate, I was made to love
but I never knew it was so hard
This sad bouquet of forget-me-not
that I threw away is growing scars and dots
In this weary heart where there's a bird, so shy
but one of these days that bird will learn to fly