SIKHS- THE SUPPLIERS OF THE BEST MEDICINE!

And, 87,30,000 results were available on Google while searching for Santa-Banta jokes particularly ,whilst 30,47,000 others, and still counting.......

To my utmost surprise there were millions and millions of jokes online and more than 90% of them were aimed at ‘SARDARS’. The above figures are just a sample of the total number of jokes  formulated on Sardars every next second!

Despite of being a highly spiritual person and simultaneously an ardent follower of all religions, this article of mine may sound a little more biased towards the Sikh Community. The term Sardar, to be very true means ‘king’ and that's the most apt reason why every single Sikh member in this world adds ‘Singh’ after his name (females add ‘Kaur’ meaning ‘queen’) and before the surname. Otherwise also the word ‘Sardar’ indicates leadership and commander-ship of a person. Even though the significance of the term being so clear and simple its upsetting to know that most of people associate sardars with ‘fools’. Just like an owl, the wisest bird of all is believed to be a symbol daftness , a Sardar , the representative of chiefs, is misunderstood to be reckless and preposterous! Alas!The Sardar jokes continue to fill the wall posts on facebook, people continue to circulate wacky jokes on Sardars over WhatsApp and find ways to scoff at them whenever possible ,thus making Sardars a prototype of fools! 

On the contrary, the Sardars, regardless of this caricature accept all the jokes  kindheartedly! Like Joginder Singh, the author of ‘President Giani Zail Singh’ states “ Who can enjoy a joke against himself or his tribe except a Punjabi and more particularly a Sikh?”Agreeably this denotes an affirmative approach for the above argument ,although there is also a nit –picking statement to this by Mr. Jawaharlal Handoo, a critique. He avers that “ In my opinion the success story of the Sikhs has taken form of a deep rooted anxiety in the collective minds of the non-sikh majorities which in turn seems to have taken form of various stereotypes resultant of the joke cycle.” Well I personally have a discrete outlook.  For me Sikhs or lets say the Sardars are the best inborn ‘doctors’ in the world since they provide the worlds best medicine to the society, laughter. The human race today is in great need of this medicine  and we the Sardars can proudly say that we play an enormous role in supplying it to the populace thus offering them a great deal of relief in this stressful and demanding world.

As a well known fact, doctors are considered as God on earth because they are life-savers. Just imagine the Sardars,  providers of the laughter medicine, who  save so many lives on earth each day from the tongs of stress and worries just by taking jokes on themselves. So aren’t they inborn doctors? They definitely are.

 I AM PROUD TO BE A SIKH!     

 Written By( Dr.) Pavleen Kaur Arora J

Qualifications- Degree of being a SIKH

Reference – Society ( introducers of the joke cycle)