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My holiday sojourn is over after picking up the pieces of my life after a mumble-jumble hectic activity filled days w/ my boys and a magical trip to Hk. Well back to ground reality (unlike Ground Zero)and life which is orderly, disciplined minus the late night binges of chocolates, malteasers and trying to appease the calories by eating dark chocolate which is no match for sinful good ol’ basic chocolates.., and yes, must share with you all a new recipe courtesy Gobind, popcorns dipped in pizza pasta sauce. Enough of me and my bacchas …. Throughout the month I have been reading reports, notes, blogs, comments bemoaning Punjab, its infrastructure, the sheer moral break down of its cultural values and yes the lack of basic facilities in every sphere and the constant comparison with our elitist countries where we all have had the fortune to visit.

I agree to all our complaints, woes and all your arguments regarding our politicians, the problems which plague us year after year, with consistency of the lack of monsoons and our sheer dependence on them.
I wonder what gave us all the right to just crib. It’s in fashion to put your state down (started in all elitist drawing- rooms talked over a glass of the finest grey goose or is it wines, these days??)I t seems it is increasingly intellectual to put one’s own identity down.
Take stock , for a minute this is the state which gives us our identity, our existence, we are first class citizens here and not second class ones who even if they try to emulate the “white skin” would still always have a teeny-weeny brown somewhere. Whitening creams do a roaring business but trust me we have our own appeal this wheatish complexion is unique and is our USP (agriculturally speaking, too!!)Finding faults is like fashion and we all have our two bits of money on it, but I wish we would all do something about it collectively. It’s this WE which makes the society the state and so on... Do not at this pt. if you are reading nod your head and say this woman has lost it, and just because she has a cushioned life she is preaching, we all can give back to the society, or at least try aka Pargat singh.. Imagine if he didn’t even try for the elections for IHF president!! Suppose he took this stand that, I can’t fight because of the politics involved, where would we be? Resigning to fate is the worst crime, according to me.
Why don’t we take pride in being a Punajbi? We ape the west, we dress the way they do, and we follow whatever is trending in the streets of New York, Milan or London. The craze/ obsession for designer bags, glasses the newest pair of Tod’s or the Birkin is driving /fuelling their economy and not ours. When was the last time you decided to own something Indian except for the solitaires??
Any expat- Punjabi realises his value only and only when he can come back to his pind and builds a monstrosity of a house which is empty year after year and opened only during fleeting visits but which are tantamount , to his wealth there.
Independence Day is around the corner, there is this upcoming event in Chandigarh called “August Kranti”. It is my wish that this kranti takes place first in our minds about our identity, our ethos which is fast disappearing, when our mind is not held high how we can teach our children, escapism to the west is not the solution.
Punjab, has so much to offer. Be patriotic , if we are not going to be proud of it the next gen
is definitely going to walk out...Try changing yourself and your attitude and see the difference. Where else would be get the flavors? Do you think thi smitti can be replicated in a clinical germ-free atmosphere? Try the golgappas via a commercial chain or the nukkad rehri wala and you'll know what I'm talkin about
so, ppl stop condemning start appreciating