Markgateshead

I had a rough idea and often wondered why would they use it to this extent when it meant bad.

Hi there! Thank you. I couldn't help joining the hot debate!

This is a very popular word in usage by Sikhs born abroad, particularly, in Canada. I have hear it many times from my wife's side of the relatives. I thought Sikhs use this word to differentiate between the educated and not so educated segments of society.

You guessed it right! No, I am only joking! I spent six months in India during my gap year when I was only 18. I visited Amritsar with some friends, had a very spiritually uplifting experience while there. I decided this is what I wanted to follow and immediately spoke to some amritdhari people there. To my astonishment, I discovered that I have always been a sikh at heart even though I was not born as one. I was already into sikhi five years before I married. My main objective was to pass on what I had been blessed with to my children, my next generation, so there was no point in my marrying a non-sikh. The message of sikhi had to be passed on and I am happy to say our children are sikhs too. They are very lucky.

That's what made me change my religion to sikhi!

Thanks.

My wife is a 'brown sardarni' as you put it, and she is a very beautiful lady. You should ignore the person who initiated this topic. It was a stupid thing to do with equally stupid (burlesque) message for the desi ladies to learn from the picture.

It is a way of promoting racism. The person should not have posted the picture and added comments for the 'desi' ladies to learn something from it. This is very insulting thing to do for the desi ladies. I am married to a desi lady and she is very clever and stunning looking. She does not need to be told to learn something from this picture depicting a gorie lady. She is a bright person.

Majority are 3HO sikhs sorry to say. Harbajan does not represent what you call your normal sikhi. I abhor people that try to put 3HO sikhs on the pedestal just becaus they happen to be gorehs. This is done mostly by those that have their roots in punjab sadly! In fact, if you study them properly they are not sikhs but hindus in the disguise of sikh bana, because they don't do anything which resembles your normal day to day sikhi who are amritharies. I became a amrithari sikh by going to my local gurudwareh where I lived 20 years ago and I see the difference. The person that started this topic should have had some sense before starting this debate. People are bound to interpret or react to his or her motive for doing so in different ways.

I agree. Nice one.