Jan 18, 2011

Queue (pangat)in day to day life

I wish to relate something more about a pangat(queue).I was standing in a queue at Chanakya cinema in Delhi during my college days.An upto date oversmart,stylishly dressed gursikh young man came and went straight to the first place at the ticket window.The less smart guys in the queue raised an objection.He silenced them by his smart dialogue ''Ticket nahi leh raha hoon''(I am not buying the ticket).And the next second he walked away buying two tickets with a style rarely seen.Before the fools standing in the queue could grasp,he was in the theatre.
A few years ago outside a government office in Jagraon I asked a Gursikh in his seventies if he had got his job done by standing in a queue.He said in style 'je line vich kharge tan sardari kahdi hoi'(of what use is being a sardar if one has to just stand in a queue)
Moral of the story is that despite being Gursikhs we may fail in the practical exam of Pangat(queue) lesson that we ought to learn at our Gurudwara langar hall.
A frog in a well knows not much about the outside world.However I perceive that the sangat in the outer world (Holland,Uk,Canada,Us etc) adhere to having langar in a pangat(queue).Farther from church nearer to God seems to be an adage in the making.