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Allenwalla (talk | contribs) m (returned page, which was removed without any discussion, before doing so, I would like to know what is senseless about belittling others. Removed the joke, but your edit has disturbed me deeply.) |
Allenwalla (talk | contribs) m (never have I seen anyone remove a page--declaring a page senseless is senseless, when the page was meant to continue the effort to end and point out that telling such jokes is still going on in Pak) |
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==Definition== | ==Definition== | ||
‘Punga’ is not an easy Punjabi word to translate, but it roughly means to provoke somebody without good reason. | ‘Punga’ is not an easy Punjabi word to translate, but it roughly means to provoke somebody without good reason. | ||
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Revision as of 04:41, 21 June 2009
Sardarji jokes anger me, along with any joke told at the expense of some other group, tribe, caste, status or sect, even religion, of the person telling the joke. Growing up in the southern US where I can only remember Sikhs being portrayed in Gunga Din and one Shirley Temple movie (both positive portrayals), I was surprised at 60 to hear my first "Sardarji 'joke', told by a Muslim friend, given I had never known there was such a thing. So today I was slightly miffed to see a story in Dawn News that began with one.
The so called joke 'joke' was recounted in a news article written during the "Lawyers' long march (2009) in Pakistan titled A presidential ‘punga’ The story in Dawn News.[1] concerns the word 'punga'. My wife had noticed the word Punga in the margin and asked me what punga meant. I had no idea and clicked on the link.
To my surprise it started with a stupid, so called Sardarji joke. Apparently even though most Sikhs were forced to leave their ancestral homes with what little they could carry (those that weren't murdered during the pogrom, known as the Partition) it seems that such jokes, at another's expense, still linger across the border from Amritsar more than half a century later.
Definition
‘Punga’ is not an easy Punjabi word to translate, but it roughly means to provoke somebody without good reason.
Category: words
