Do Sikhs over celebrate Bandi Chorr Diwas/Diwali?

[ChardikalaUK]

We want to be seen as seperate from Hindus but we celebrate Diwali with great gusto, more than even Vaisakhi.

There are many great significant events in Sikh history but we choose to celebrate the release of Rajas as if it is one of the most important things in our history. Most western Sikhs don't even know the jail story.

Did we correlate this event with Diwali like the Europeans did with their winter festival with Christmas?

[puzzled]

Diwali for "Sikhs" is what Christmas is for British "Christians" 

The British Diwali is a party.

A lot of patake today? A lot more than I thought there would have been. 

 

[puzzled]

When we were kids we used have huge Diwali parties. Dad would spend around £500 on fireworks, have many bottles of alcohol lined up on the kitchen worktop , have chicken curry made, all his rowdy mates would come around and everyone would party till 1 am in the morning. Us kids used to be running around in the garden watching the fireworks, while the women would sit inside munching on pakore, samosa, jalebi etc. And then drive their drunk husbands home after the party was over. Obviously got all the gurdwara stuff out of the way in the morning. 

My mums cousins Diwali parties were legendary, they nearly burnt the house down one year with dodgy old fireworks they got for free from a Punjabi "business man" who owned a "factory" we luckily all ran inside when it exploded.

The good old Punjabi Diwali right there. 

Having to clean up the mess next morning was the worst thing.

[MisterrSingh]

15 minutes ago, puzzled said:

A lot of patake today? A lot more that I though there would of been.

I'm surprised there hasn't been anyone in the media saying stuff like, "Fireworks spread Covid. The firework explosion releases Covid particle into the atmosphere, which ends up being inhaled by people" or something equally daft.

[puzzled]

Diwali parties like any other Punjabi party has a lot of bad breath in the air, people panting out a mixture of alcohol and Chicken/masala, having that breated on you is foul. 

[puzzled]

26 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

I'm surprised there hasn't been anyone in the media saying stuff like, "Fireworks spread Covid. The firework explosion releases Covid particle into the atmosphere, which ends up being inhaled by people" or something equally daft.

lol I wouldn't be surprised, next its gnna be cows and sheeps farting out Covid. 

[Kaurr]

For us we normally go to the gurdwara in the evenings and play with fulcharhia and the diva, whilst stuffing ourselves with pakore and samose and sweets with our mates. If we were in Punjab at that time we would go crazy with the fireworks. I've cut back on the fireworks recently, becoming more environmentally sustainble. Still use the fireworks in Punjab, just not as much.

[Shaheed4life]

On 11/15/2020 at 6:49 AM, puzzled said:

When we were kids we used have huge Diwali parties. Dad would spend £500 on fireworks, 

Wow,in my place we don't have a single firework during diwali,vaisakhi or any Gurpurabs.No Nagar kirtan even.We just go to Gurudwara Sahib,hear the kirtan and have langar then we go back home.

 

2 hours ago, Kaurr said:

For us we normally go to the gurdwara in the evenings and play with fulcharhia and the diva, whilst stuffing ourselves with pakore and samose and sweets with our mates. If we were in Punjab at that time we would go crazy with the fireworks. I've cut back on the fireworks recently, becoming more environmentally sustainble. Still use the fireworks in Punjab, just not as much.

What is a fulcharhia?We never had that in my country ever.Not even in Vaisakhi or Gurpurabs,probably cause the population of sikhs here are so little.Only about 8000 out of which about half are mona.And when I say mona I mean like extreme not into sikhi.They drink alcohol, get involved in gangs and smoke.Most of them dont even come Gurudwara.Then out of the other half who keep their kesh and turban, about 40% of them drink as well.So theres only like 900 or 1000 people who come to Gurudwara.Super sad.In my Punjabi school theres only 50 students my age.Out of which only 2 or 3 Amritdhari or at least following sikhi but haven't got the chance to take Amrit yet.The rest of them are either trying to act like gunde. Alot of sikhs in my country left and migrated to Australia or Canada.

[Kaurr]

5 minutes ago, Shaheed4life said:

What is a fulcharhia?We never had that in my country ever.Not even in Vaisakhi or Gurpurabs.

Something like this. 

[Shaheed4life]

1 minute ago, Kaurr said:

Something like this. 

Ohhh.Ok ya we had that like once or twice.