Khushwant Singh writes about an incident a friend narrated to him...
"During vacations
some college boys from South India came to Delhi and rented a taxi for
sightseeing.The taxi driver was an old sardarji and boys being boys began
cracking Sardarji jokes just to tease him.To their surprise he remained
unperturbed. At the end of the sightseeing they paid the cab hire charges.The
Sardar returned the change and he gave each one of them a ten rupee note extra
and said- Sons since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes.I listened to
them all and let me tell you,some of them were in bad taste.Still,I dont
mind.But I have one request.I am giving you ten rupees each.Give it to the
first Sardar beggar you come across in this or any other city.The friend
continued-The ten rupee note is still lying with me.I COULD NOT FIND A SINGLE
SARDAR BEGGING ANYWHERE!"
Sikh contribute
- 33% of total income tax
- 67% of total charities
- 45% of Indian Army
- 59,000+ Gurudwaras serve 'langar' free of charge to
over 60 lac people everyday
and all this when they
are only 1.4% of the total Indian population!! surprising but true....!
The Punjabi culture is spreading all across the
globe spanning all spheres be it food, dress,lifestyle or for that matter even
marriage rituals!! An executive in a multinational firm in Mumbai,Ankita
Mehadiya,a marwadi married to a bengali, proudly shows off her
"chuda".According to her its "cool" to wear at office
making people know that you are newly married! The big fat Punjabi wedding
(read ad FUNJABI!) is gaining popularity among people of all strata of society
irrespective of their cultures.People are ready to spend heavily on weddings on
the condition that they have a great time and what other than a Punjabi wedding
could be a better guarantee. The movie 'Band Baaja Baarat' appropriately
displays the wide range of applause a DHINCHAK JANAKPURI style wedding gets
even in the aristocratic class.
One easily notices that all the DJ parties are
virtually incomplete without a Punjabi songs hour! All the popular party tracks
have at least a line of Punjabi in them! Be it the mouth watering dishes or the
immensely energetic rituals punjabi style weddings are so in! You have all the
right to eat to your hearts content, dance till you can stand no more and the
best part is you can actually give a smile wider than the socially acceptable
only half an inch one!How can we forget Kareena Kapoor's famous Jab We Met
harrom pants.? On a closer observation one notices that they are actually a
typical Punjabi patiala salwar!
On a personal note,i vividly remember the night before my board
exams, it was my neighbor's wedding and there were two huge "dhols"
pumping up the spirit. you wonder whats surprising? Its this-my neighbor is a
konkanasth brahmin,a maharashtrian!! I also remember my friend Afreen telling
me that in the morning when she came to school it was the quietest around the
Kamptee Road Gurudwara! Many of my friends keep asking me to take them yo a
Punjabi wedding in my family! Its kind of a small joke among our non Punjabi
acquaintances.When any one of them visits us they actually request us to serve
coffee or tea or meals of the non Punjabi size! Nobody is unaware of the
benevolence and large heartedness of the Punjabis.
Punjabis are famous for their great dressing and even
greater eating and are the only ''species'' in my view who have the heart to
crack and enjoy jokes on themselves. I have been to a church, a mosque, a
buddhist temple, a hindu temple and a gurudwara but a gurudwara is the only
religious place where you would never find a beggar because Punjabis believe in
living off what they earn out of their hard work but at the same time are miser
in no way! Also despite being a place with a great number of visitors the Golden
Temple,Amritsar is a religious place where nobody pushes you or persuades you
to hurry and move forward.Life is a race for people but it is a party for the
Punjabis.
A
Bollywood song rightly describes us-
"yaari hai jaan ainadi,
vakhri hai shaan ainadi,
hasna pehchan ainadi,taiyyon ae
duniya kehndi
SINGH IS KING!!!"
LIVE LIFE KING SIZE WITH THE
KINGS!
here's a cheer to all
the Punjabis! We make the world a better place to live in!
"SOME PEOPLE SPEND
ALL THEIR LIVES TRYING TO BE PERFECT AND THE OTHERS................................................
ARE JUST BORN
PUNJABIS!!"
