This message was forwarded to me by a friend. An excellent response by a true Sardar:
In the diwali vacation a couple of his friends had gone to Delhi. They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old sardar, and boys being boys, the 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 course),''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."
That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find a single sardar begging on the streets of Delhi.
We all love sardar jokes. But the fact of matter is that sikhs are one of the most prosperous 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.
From India
24In the diwali vacation a couple of his friends had gone to Delhi. They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old sardar, and boys being boys, the 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 course),''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."
That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find a single sardar begging on the streets of Delhi.
We all love sardar jokes. But the fact of matter is that sikhs are one of the most prosperous 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.
From India
hi rajmore,
really nice one. I do also feel smewat bad when v see/heard jokes being cracked on sardarji's . that community has not done anythg bad with anyone bt why those people are targeted for some useless jokes......just for one laugh v people are insulting them in the way wat we wants.
really good effort........an eye opener and a hard and true fact you hav presented to all of us. Thnks a lot.
From India, Chandigarh
really nice one. I do also feel smewat bad when v see/heard jokes being cracked on sardarji's . that community has not done anythg bad with anyone bt why those people are targeted for some useless jokes......just for one laugh v people are insulting them in the way wat we wants.
really good effort........an eye opener and a hard and true fact you hav presented to all of us. Thnks a lot.
From India, Chandigarh
The jokes could be funny.. but even funnier is the "FACT" jokes are being cracked ON "Sardars".
Jokes on "Sardars" are made/cracked mostly by those who do not know Indian history (500 years old).
Here are few facts from Indian history:
a) Sikhs were popularly called Sardars (means Leader in English) because they volunteered as
Leaders (during the difficult times of Mughal oppression) -- Leaders who first Lead themselves
to be Universally "Empathetic" Human Beings & then Lead groups to defend against tyranny.
b) The Holy Book of Sikhs (which they regard as a Living Guru) contains Holy Hymns by
Sikh Gurus & by Enlightened Saints of different Sects including Hindus & Muslims.
c) 1st Sikh Guru (Guru Nanak) advocated that Hindu & Muslims should live in peace.
Guru Nanak advocated that -- just by calling a FLOWER by different NAMEs does not
change it's FRAGRANCE -- similarly, calling God with Different Names / Ideas / Ideologies
does not change God's Roles or Properties or Laws !
d) Two Sikh Gurus suffered tortures & sacrificed there lives to prevent Hindus from being forcibly
converted by some tyrant rulers. Gurus saw it as the suppression of "freedom to practice one's own religion".
e) The Sikhs took up to dress in unique "attires" (Hair, Beard, Bangle, Kirpan, Turban...) so that they
could be distinguished as defenders of humanity -- just as police "uniforms" today are meant to
distinguish persons who are defenders of law.
From India, Lucknow
Jokes on "Sardars" are made/cracked mostly by those who do not know Indian history (500 years old).
Here are few facts from Indian history:
a) Sikhs were popularly called Sardars (means Leader in English) because they volunteered as
Leaders (during the difficult times of Mughal oppression) -- Leaders who first Lead themselves
to be Universally "Empathetic" Human Beings & then Lead groups to defend against tyranny.
b) The Holy Book of Sikhs (which they regard as a Living Guru) contains Holy Hymns by
Sikh Gurus & by Enlightened Saints of different Sects including Hindus & Muslims.
c) 1st Sikh Guru (Guru Nanak) advocated that Hindu & Muslims should live in peace.
Guru Nanak advocated that -- just by calling a FLOWER by different NAMEs does not
change it's FRAGRANCE -- similarly, calling God with Different Names / Ideas / Ideologies
does not change God's Roles or Properties or Laws !
d) Two Sikh Gurus suffered tortures & sacrificed there lives to prevent Hindus from being forcibly
converted by some tyrant rulers. Gurus saw it as the suppression of "freedom to practice one's own religion".
e) The Sikhs took up to dress in unique "attires" (Hair, Beard, Bangle, Kirpan, Turban...) so that they
could be distinguished as defenders of humanity -- just as police "uniforms" today are meant to
distinguish persons who are defenders of law.
From India, Lucknow
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