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Punjab is important but it shouldn't be the be all end all. How many Muslims throughout the world know Arabic? Or Catholics know Latin and Italian? Buddhists who know Pali?

Yes, which is quite pathetic on our behalf.

Do the Italians go on about Julius Caesar, the French about William The Conqueror, the Muslims about Aurangzeb anywhere near the amount as we do about Maharaja Ranjit Singh?

He was a drunk and serial fornicator.

He was really good at Maths, Physics and Chemistry. He was able to help me all the way up to GCSE level. In fact I ended up taking those three subjects for my A Levels. I will definitely put in the same effort with my son.

No but my father was a teacher in India, so he was able to help a lot. I remember we bought pretty much every practice test pack available in WH Smith and I must have gone through them several times.

She is the Congress version of Arnab Goswami and very pro Muslim. If anyone asks you to say Bhindranwale was a terrorist ask them to first say Indira Gandhi was a terrorist.

What a silly girl. Having a live in relationship with a Gujarati. If her identity gets leaked out no apna will want anything to do with her. The boyfriend and his parents lived up to the stereotype of being stingy businessness minded gurus, they think of relationships as business transactions. In fact both families seem like fools. I guarantee you both are from Kenya.

To be honest hard work is the most important thing. There were some people who I used to wonder how on earth they managed to pass their test at all and a lot of them would have done no preparation either. The goreh did will until Year 9 or so but after that they got into the typical habits that working class kids were known for. Their parents did not push them into further education, not a single one of them stayed on for A Levels. In a town that has grammar schools, the other schools tend to have students who are not academically minded and that causes their unruly behaviour. There were enough of these idiots in our school, I can imagine it being far worse at the other schools. You even see this in Universities. You don't get chavvy rudeboy wannabes at Redbrick Universities.

No, even in the 90s there were lots of kids from Southall and Hounslow going to both Langley and Slough Grammar, at Herschel they were importing goreh from outside Slough. If you out the hard-work in your kids will pass, if they are somewhat gifted academically.

That is very true. How many apne become doctors, dentists, IT professionals because they are truly passionate about it? Very few, I think most do it for material gain and for a better standing in society. I'm not saying goreh don't do this but the majority of them who go into professional careers do have a great passion for what they choose to do. This passion then leads them to research and innovation whereas apne just keep the ball rolling. The heads of Microsoft and Google may be Indian but who actually formed those companies?

I thought my post contained valuable information. I went to the worst ranked primary school in the whole country. The only reason I passed was due to my parents insistence and perseverance. Learn from this. I've seen a lot of apne professionals whose kids are failing this test due to them being more lax and softer than their own parents.

I've got 3 downvotes for this comment. Either due to lots of suls on this website or a bunch of duffers.

Back in the 90s my mum scared me saying if I didn't pass my 12 plus I would go to sul infested Slough and Eton. Even Herschel had its fair share of idiotic suls, I can only imagine how bad Slough and Eton would be. I passed with flying colours! The 11 plus/12 plus really isn't that hard. You just have to practice a lot and you will be ok. Primary schools do not prepare you for it. In the summer holidays before my 12 plus my parents made me do 3 practice papers a day and also one on every school day. Back then we didn't even know which day the tests would be.

Why not leave and go to Punjab?

Yes but they would at least find fossils of our bodies. There is no evidence of modern humans from millions of years ago. We really are a very new species in the grand scheme of life on Earth.

I prefer to believe the scientists. Scientists at least admit when they get things wrong.

The scientific evidence clearly doesn't support this. In fact humans have only been farming for 12,000 years. So settlements are only that long. Before that we were just hunter gatherers with no civilisation. Hinduism whixh first mentioned the yugs is only around 6000 years old.

So Sikhi is the only path to salvation? There are 7.8 Billion people in the world and Sikhs are just 30 million. So those other 7.77 Billion have to be reincarnated as Sikhs to end the cycle of rebirth? And that is just human lives. If you include animals and insects it is even more. It would take a ridiculously long time for every person to have the chance to be born a Sikh. In fact the world would probably have ended by that time. What about prehistoric animals like Dinosaurs that were around hundreds of millions of years before humans, what was happening to their souls? Were they waiting for humans to be created? Modern humans have only been around 200,000 years and ones that are like us just around 30,000. What happens to the soul of a mentally disabled person born into an Amritdhari family, who has no possibility to understand Sikhi or God? He has waited all of this time to be born into a Sikh family but cannot do anything now because he is disabled. These are things I often wonder about.

What happens to all of the atheists in Western Europe whose countries we are desperate to immigrate to?

Yes but why not have such gatherings during Guru Nanak's Gurpurab which is a far more significant event. Buddhists don't celebrate or get together on Diwali.

So why celebrate in a very similar way to the way Hindus celebrate Diwali, with fireworks, lighting candles etc. And in terms of importance is it up there with Vaisakhi and Guru Nanak's Gurpurab? The celebrations certainly make it look so.

The vast majority of Hindus do not know this. I would say over 90% don't know. I reckon around 50% of western Sikhs don't know the reason we celebrate it either.

What I meant in my original post was if Sikhs give too much importance to Diwali/Bandi Chorr Diwas. Is it really a big important event in Sikh history? There are more significant events in my opinion. It seems that someone just decided to tie in Bandi Chorr Diwas and Diwali together so that we Sikhs didn't feel left out when the Hindus were celebrating. It's a bit like how the European Christians replaced their pagan winter solstice festival with Christmas. They felt guilty to celebrate their old pre-Christian festival so decided to give it a different meaning that fit their new religion but the dates do not match.

Thankfully things are better in Punjab. Sikhi really did civilise people. I have seen countless dirty comments and rape threats online from Indians, they have all been from Hindus. The reasons for India's shocking rape statistics are: 1. Sexual frustration and Indians getting married later in life. Previously people used to get married as teenagers or in their early 20s, nowadays it's late 20s or early 30s. 2. India in general is a very conservative country which leads to a lot of sexual repression and when Indians see highly sexuallised scenes in Bollywood movies this makes them act out. 3. Law and order is pathetic, in a lot of states the higher caste people can do whatever they please with lower castes and the police won't do anything about it. 4. Women are seen as objects, second class citizens by a lot of the male populace. I'm sure things are even worse in Pakistan but they probably don't report it as much over there and I've heard in Sharia Law another man has to witness the rape for it to be believable, <banned word filter activated>!