do not take them always as a fool

[meghu_kulkarni]

hello everyone

we always read , tell , hear jokes on sardar. sometimes i really feel what they (sardars) must be thinking of it .

i got a email one day and that was telling about very unique strength of this community.
pls read that story ( email i received) and think before u laugh on those jokes made on sardar


In the diwali vacation, my couple of friends had gone to Delhi.
They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing.

The driver was an old sardar, and boys being boys, they 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."

After several days, my friends still had that one rupee coin with
them. They couldn't find a single sardar begging on the streets of
Delhi."

Friends, 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.
Now we must decide whether - are we just going to pass on long
forwarded mails of sardar jokes, or are we going to try and bring our
own community on par with theirs?


Pls send your openion on this

regards
-meghana