An excellent response by a true Sardaar:
Well, jayant , my friend, told me the following
incident which i wish to share with you. It has had a
deep impact on my thinking. In the diwali vacation,
Jayant and his couple of friends had gone to
They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver
was a old sardar, and boys being boys, Jayant and his
pals began cracking sardarji jokes, just to insinuate
the old man. But to their surprise, the fellow
remained unperturbed. At the end of the sight-seeing,
they paid up the hire-charges. The sardar returned the
change. Moreover, he gave each one of them one rupee
extra and said,( in Hindi , of ourse) ,''son, since
morning you have been telling sardarji jokes. I
listened to them all and let me tell you, some of
them were in a very bad taste. Still, I don't mind coz
I know that you are young blood and are yet to see
the world. But I have just one request. Here I am
giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first sardar
beggar that you come across in this city."
Jayant continued," That one rupee coin is still with
me. I couldn't find a single sardar begging on the
streets of
But the fact of matter is that sikhs are one of the
mostprosperous and diversified communities in the
world.
The secret behind their universal success, according
to me , is their willingness to do any job with utmost
dedication. A sardar will drive a truck or set up a
roadside garage or a dhaba, but he will never beg on
the streets.
Are we just going to pass on long forwarded mails of
sardar jokes, or are we going to try and bring our own
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