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The Indian Governments strategy over the past 20yrs on flushing alcohol into punjab, diverting river water, attacking economy resulting in farmer suicides, diverting youth with drug influx into punjab, increasing Hindu poulation making Sikhs minority, beurocratic corrution, scrupulous police and pubkab politicians, etc, etc, etc are all paying dividends for them. They have succeeding in taking the basket of India post green revolution and destroying it...

@proactive proactive wrote " West London Singh, I couldn't have put it better myself. Unfortunately people whose only claim to having any connection to rural Punjab is that they watched Putt Jattan De seem to think they know more than those who actually have family there and visit every year. I was watching NDTV this afternoon and they had a discussion about government subsidies." One Indian nonce had the nerve to say that free power shouldn't be provided to the rich Punjabi farmer! That numbnut thought that all Punjabi farmers are rich. DalSingh would add his own nugget to that fact by claiming that apart from being all rich the Punjabi farmers are also treating the lower castes like the Southern good ole boys used to treat the negros! Anyway that facts as you state are quite correct. The GOI treats the Punjab as a colony just as the British treated India as a colony which would provide the raw materials and then be a market for it's value added goods. GOI needs Punjab to remain an agricultural state which provide cheap foodstuffs to the rest of the country and which is then a market for goods which are produced outside of Punjab. Having looked at for example biscuits in the shops of even a small town, more than 60% are produced outside Punjab in states such as Gujarat and even Maharashtra. Why is in that the state that produces the raw materials yet value added products are produced outside? You make a valid point about Amritsar Airport. Why is it that there is now no direct flights to Amritsar. Even the Indian carrier Jet Airways stopped their direct flight and if you want to fly to Amritsar then you have to do so via Delhi Airport. This also entails a 10 hour wait for the connection from Delhi to Amritsar! If that's not discrimination against Punjab then I don't know what is.

I should add, the other week I tried to watch a Panjabi film by Babbu Maan called 'Hero Hitler in love'. Now occasionally I will enjoy a quality movie, even a foreign one with subtitles. Brothers and sisters should note that plenty of countries sell their 'arts' to massive global markets even if the language isn't English. Think of all the Hong Kong/Chinese martial arts films for a good example i.e. crouching dragon. The other day I saw a good film called Sin Nombre which again had no English. My point is that quality arts can also sell and they don't have to be in English. But when I try and watch Panjabi films they are generally so straight pendu and rubbish, I can rarely get to the end of them. That Hero Hitler in love for example was straight weird. Panjabi films in general are small minded, poorly acted affairs with no depth. Again, we can see other people make quality foreign films and sell them abroad - if we ever raised standards of films and made them relevant to more than some tiny demographic (like plenty of others seem to manage) this could also be a potential component of a robust and diverse economy. Maybe we should try and brainstorm and see what things could have potential for Panjab's economy, just as a mind widening exercise?

Punjabi word for alcohol = Sharab. Like alot of Punjabi words its origin lies in Persian, with the amalgamation of 2 seperate words, i.e the words 'Shar' and 'ab'. The 'shar' is 'shame' and the 'ab', as you know from the word 'Punjab' , is 'water'. Thus, Sharab literaly translates as 'Shame Water'. i.e....he or she who drinks it becomes besharm. You can paint it with all the rosy words you like, such as 'happy drunks' etc, but at the end of the day the literal translation applies : Besharm.

Farmers who jumped into green revolution resulted in today's depleted ground water tables. Once well known in education now the literacy rate is hovering at the record low bottom. Central government is at fault but larger fault is in our own people. Quality of education is extremely low that majority of engineering school quota stays vacant every year because punjabi students couldn't do good in entrance exams. Our people vote for a person who gives them free electricity but does not worry about loans that punjab is taking from outsiders. Our people both in punjab and NRI are thinking that having lavish tight space malls or having junk fast food outlets makes punjab prosper? Not really. That may look like good from outside but inside it is all junk and rusted. The only industry that i see is export material from Ludhiana but i don't see how that helps punjabis except in state revenue in taxes. Most of the worker force is from Bihar and their day pay rate is less than a one time meal. It may help country's GDP but i don't think state makes anything except the tax revenue which is probably given to central government for the interests on loans they took in 80's or 90's. However these such industries are fully to blame to dump toxic wastes in punjab river/streams and will cause health epidemic later on. EDUCATION is the only KEY ! Nobody can stop anyone in Punjab to get a proper education. Take an example of south India who does not worry about how good they look from outside. They extremely put very high value on education; a lot more than North indians. This is probably why we see south indians claiming the majority share of silicon valley work force.

Blaming it all on the government is lame and totally disempowers us from making change for the better. Panjabis themselves have as much a hand in this situation as anyone else. Apnay drink like fish outside of Panjab, so blaming the government for this habit is a cop out. Apnay aren't showing ANY creativity in terms of diversifying the economy of the state and don't even seem to know how to use fertilizer and pesticides properly - over using them. The state education system is a joke and besides many apnay seem to have an apathy to higher/further education in any case. As for drugs, let be honest, a lot of that comes from over the border. The smack anyway. Plus if there were ever a people ready and willing to get intoxicated, you'd find them amongst ours. The Panjab government is dominated by Sikhs, so if it is corrupt etc. our own people are a big part of the cause. Like our lot don't blow big money on needless ostentation, like weddings. It is sad that a state with some of the hardest working people IN THE WORLD NO LESS!, and advantage in terms of foreign money that gets pumped into it from diaspora Panjabis as well as the absolute fortune accumulated in Gurdwara donations - simply can't get its act together. This weak culture of blaming all of our woes on outsiders - a constant victim mentality that too many Sikhs exhibit sucks! The potential is more than there, what is needed is creativity.

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Going on from what Singh559 has written above, my original assertion regarding the bloodthirsty and over-zealous (an understatement) ways in which Islam was propagated by the Mughals throughout India can be read below. It was where I first discovered what exactly the Mughals did, outside of being told of their exploits in a theological sense from parcharaaks, kathavaachaks, etc. It's from McAuliffe's Sikh volumes -- if you don't mind a bit of light reading on a Saturday, lol.

Very nice excerpt from The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power by Joseph Murphy STEP THIS WAY FOR A HEALING 1. Man says it's impossible, but with God all things are possible. You can be healed by God, Who created you. 2. The healing principle flows through your mental patterns of thought and imagery, bringing all things you wish into manifestation. 3. If you believe something, it will be manifest -- whether or not you are consciously thinking of it. Believe only in that which heals, blesses, and inspires you. 4. Exalt the power of God in the midst of you, and you will stop the spread of any disease in your body. 5. The thankful heart is close to God. Let all your prayers be made known with praise and thanksgiving. 6. You are spiritually blind when you don't know that thoughts are things, that what you feel you attract, and that what you imagine, you become. 7. Vision is spiritual, eternal, and indestructible. A wondcrful prayer for the eyes is to affirm regularly: "I see better spiritually, mentally, and physically." Amazing truths revealed, as taught by Gurbani. To read in full, please see the attachment. The-Miraculous-Law-of-Healing.pdf

Please share... TO RAISE awareness...of the KHANPUR MASSACRE on 31st May 1991 #KhanpurMassacre

vjkkvjkf whats going on with the Boss Sikhi camp? this year , rumour has it there is no camp :O and theres no adverts,posters or anything out yet.... normaly its out by this time. does anybody knows the sevadars? and know whats going on!? thanks vjkkvjkf