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Done Deal !
hanji folks i am writing this over a cup pf tea and after this i shall not be seen here for a month, coz i seriosuly need to only focus on studying these days, but everyone please feel free to leave ur views here and i promise i will def get back to it next month or atleast know what ya'all think abt it.
Its a topic i was discussing with my roomie (we actually talk lot of intellectual stuff related to life, religion, politics, philosophy)....and out of those million discussions came this one....the topic is a bit weired so i didnt know what to name it.........anways here it goes...........
So we were talking and she goes, why is it that people leave their homelands and then brag abt things they cant do here in these western countries. At one point they made a choice of leaving their homelands, their hometowns, their culture, their values. yeah they can totally preserve their culture, their values, their religion living here but dont blame the country u are living in that their culture and lifestyle makes a bad influence on you. If it does its our fault and if we were that concerned why did we first come here, no one invited us here, it was a choice we made to live a better life with better opportunities or maybe even to get out of poverty. If we wanted to be soo good on what we are, then we cud have struggled in our countries and stayed there. Coming here, with better life, comes other things too and why is it that people deny to accept those changes.
Then we were talking about lot of indian christians in kuwait, mallu christians, infact we have a frnd who grew up there and told us that kuwaitess are chill to have christians in kuwait but they arent chill with churches. so these indian christians in kuwait had to make underground churches. I dont get one thing, there are freaking 192 other countires in the world , why cant u go somewhere, u wanna come to a place where u already know u cant practice fully, and u still wanna practice, so whose fault is it, obviosuly it isnt kuwait's , it urs that u made choice to come their to make more money (they have lots of nursing job there), so now with money learn how to worship at home too.
three, we talked abt how people leave their homelands and then demand what their homelands shud have living away from homeland. How valid is that? Would india ever have been free if bhagat singh, gandhi, and all the other freedom fighters had left india and demanded for it living away from india. Thats the same case with us asking for khalistan (no offense to any sikhs living outside punjab or these countries here, my own dad is a senior member of north american council of khalistan, same goes for him too)...punjab da sikh ta khalistan di gall vi nahi karda and here we have we go protest infront of UN, capitol hill(american parliament) every month. Fer eda lagda hai ki himmat hai ta koi india jaake awaaj kadd ke dikhave....How valid is it to demand for something that extreme in a country that is so diverse, so open, so free. maybe i am wrong here, its not even my point of view, i know we can make the world aware my holding confrences, protests here, but what difference is it making to our homeland? seriosuly......
and last thing, there's a video on youtube about a fight in a gurdwara, this I intend to write an article about and send it to indian newspapers and get it published, soo looking forward to it....just need sometime.....
so this video on youtube is abt a fight inside a gurdwara infront of guru granth sahib ji in bramton, CAnada. And then our parents brag that kids dont goto gurdwara sahib jis. Isnt gurdwara sahib ji supposed to be a symbol of peace, love, strength and bani. But seriosuly do our gurdwaras here in these countries portray that. There is always some fighting, politics and money business going in gurdwaras, so what exactly will attract our kids to come to gurudwaras. Our elders (bajurgs) need to learn this that this is no way to keep our kids connected to sikhi. Little kids come home and make fun of these uncle ji's who fight in gurdwaras and how wud those kids wanna go back. if a religious place is a symbol of love and peace, any kid wud wanna go their happily. Gurdwaras back home in punjab are so simple, so melllow, so sweeet that u go their and find peace, here u go and its like a buffet there. And it doesnt go for all the gurdwarsa in the world, please dont get me wrong, my mecca is a gurdwara sahib only i find the most peace there, but i m talking abt little kids and what they take from these fights, arguments and politics in the gurdwaras. We can understand it coz we are grown up and lot of us came from india already with our knowledge about gurbani, but our little kids growing up here what will develop their love towards sikhi.
i knows i have put 4 diff topics in one discussion or maybe even more, sorry for such a long essay....but please feel free to read at ur own convenience, and reply whenevea u want....
Thanks all
And sorry if i offended anyone anyways, i respect all with my heart.
God bless all
Its a topic i was discussing with my roomie (we actually talk lot of intellectual stuff related to life, religion, politics, philosophy)....and out of those million discussions came this one....the topic is a bit weired so i didnt know what to name it.........anways here it goes...........
So we were talking and she goes, why is it that people leave their homelands and then brag abt things they cant do here in these western countries. At one point they made a choice of leaving their homelands, their hometowns, their culture, their values. yeah they can totally preserve their culture, their values, their religion living here but dont blame the country u are living in that their culture and lifestyle makes a bad influence on you. If it does its our fault and if we were that concerned why did we first come here, no one invited us here, it was a choice we made to live a better life with better opportunities or maybe even to get out of poverty. If we wanted to be soo good on what we are, then we cud have struggled in our countries and stayed there. Coming here, with better life, comes other things too and why is it that people deny to accept those changes.
Then we were talking about lot of indian christians in kuwait, mallu christians, infact we have a frnd who grew up there and told us that kuwaitess are chill to have christians in kuwait but they arent chill with churches. so these indian christians in kuwait had to make underground churches. I dont get one thing, there are freaking 192 other countires in the world , why cant u go somewhere, u wanna come to a place where u already know u cant practice fully, and u still wanna practice, so whose fault is it, obviosuly it isnt kuwait's , it urs that u made choice to come their to make more money (they have lots of nursing job there), so now with money learn how to worship at home too.
three, we talked abt how people leave their homelands and then demand what their homelands shud have living away from homeland. How valid is that? Would india ever have been free if bhagat singh, gandhi, and all the other freedom fighters had left india and demanded for it living away from india. Thats the same case with us asking for khalistan (no offense to any sikhs living outside punjab or these countries here, my own dad is a senior member of north american council of khalistan, same goes for him too)...punjab da sikh ta khalistan di gall vi nahi karda and here we have we go protest infront of UN, capitol hill(american parliament) every month. Fer eda lagda hai ki himmat hai ta koi india jaake awaaj kadd ke dikhave....How valid is it to demand for something that extreme in a country that is so diverse, so open, so free. maybe i am wrong here, its not even my point of view, i know we can make the world aware my holding confrences, protests here, but what difference is it making to our homeland? seriosuly......
and last thing, there's a video on youtube about a fight in a gurdwara, this I intend to write an article about and send it to indian newspapers and get it published, soo looking forward to it....just need sometime.....
so this video on youtube is abt a fight inside a gurdwara infront of guru granth sahib ji in bramton, CAnada. And then our parents brag that kids dont goto gurdwara sahib jis. Isnt gurdwara sahib ji supposed to be a symbol of peace, love, strength and bani. But seriosuly do our gurdwaras here in these countries portray that. There is always some fighting, politics and money business going in gurdwaras, so what exactly will attract our kids to come to gurudwaras. Our elders (bajurgs) need to learn this that this is no way to keep our kids connected to sikhi. Little kids come home and make fun of these uncle ji's who fight in gurdwaras and how wud those kids wanna go back. if a religious place is a symbol of love and peace, any kid wud wanna go their happily. Gurdwaras back home in punjab are so simple, so melllow, so sweeet that u go their and find peace, here u go and its like a buffet there. And it doesnt go for all the gurdwarsa in the world, please dont get me wrong, my mecca is a gurdwara sahib only i find the most peace there, but i m talking abt little kids and what they take from these fights, arguments and politics in the gurdwaras. We can understand it coz we are grown up and lot of us came from india already with our knowledge about gurbani, but our little kids growing up here what will develop their love towards sikhi.
i knows i have put 4 diff topics in one discussion or maybe even more, sorry for such a long essay....but please feel free to read at ur own convenience, and reply whenevea u want....
Thanks all
And sorry if i offended anyone anyways, i respect all with my heart.
God bless all
je kise nu kiss karde dekh lain ta kehnde ne es mulk de loka da mara haal aa par aapi eho jehe moke bhalde rehnde 
. I've been born and brought up in a foreign country as well, but have been very lucky to see India almost every year 
. Moreover, I'll be moving to Canada soon, but actually if you ask me I dont feel like coming there, but have to come there for my higher studies. Meri mom te bilkul hi nahi jaane chande Canada, she says its better u all go there, I'll go back to India. But, what I've decided is to study in Canada, earn some money, and then come back not to Dubai but to India, with the economy booming, consumer spending rising, and a country which is on a verge of becoming a super power soon, who would like to stay away from such a country? 
