Well there are many things which make me special and distinct and one of them is I am a JAAT.
Yes i belong to that specie. I used the word specie because of two reasons, first that the caste is distinct, although Jaats are originated from the Asian part of the world but this caste prevails in three religions i.e. Hindus, Muslims and the Sikhs. The manner of pronouncing this caste may change but the characteristics are almost similar and so fascinating that one should write a research paper on it, so i am just making an effort and only i can do it, not because i am a jaat and i know the specie better but for the reason that only i being a fellow-jaat can write and survive.
The second reason why i called jaats a specie is that man is a social animal, and in our case if a man is a jaat he is an anti-social animal. Yeah i mean we are born hardcore, we always like that rough look, the brutality can be experienced when if you are in a jaat dominated area like U.P , Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan (God! We are everywhere) and you are riding on the road and you see a biker passing by, he looks at you, you look at him to find out what is he looking at you for, he stops you and says “tu mane dekh reha say?” which means “you are looking at me?” and you don’t want to know what happens next. Another example is the world famous one, you go to a jaat and politely ask him “sir!! Aapko thodi takleef de sakta hun?” and the most obvious reply from a jaat playing with his moustaches will be “Beta de ke do dekh!!”. We even have a community on jaats on orkut by the name JAT WORLD, i obviously joined it and guess what were the intellect polls and forums present there ........ ” Who is a jaats biggest enemy”....options a)Sindhi b)Thakur c)Punjabi d)Bihari.......i was shocked, i mean why would we fight them and why would they fight us. And is it written in Ramayana or some other granth that we have a certain enemy.
Another myth about the jaats is they are insensitive, that is wrong, we are very emotional people , yeah i can tell you that with my own experience, in my village a family had a big fight with another family , on the day of holi the people from the other family shot one of the man from the jaat family. People from the jaat family did nothing. Now comes the emotional part, they shot the whole family, next year on the same day of holi, yes i mean this is emotions personified, they were so emotionally attached to the day, and who said emotions are always good, but they are emotional.
There is another myth which is rather insulting to our community is that Jaats are very clever and cunning, this is the most insulting thing that i have heard i mean we are a dumb race of people, haven’t you heard the saying “solah duni aath wo hai jaat ”......which means according to a jaat sixteen multiplied by two gives eight, we are slow, believe me, have you in your whole life had a jaat boy or girl be the topper of your class...NO.....you can never see that, and we feel proud of it, my uncle Chaudhary used to gift a bike to every kid in the house who used to clear tenth grade after flunking once and the prize was not for clearing, it was for flunking. Now you must be confused that how do we go to colleges and complete higher studies? The answer is we keep the economy rolling, we donate.....for the upliftment of the colleges and i don’t think that is bad, another question in your mind....where do we get the money from? And the answer is CHAUDHARY TRANSPORT....this doesn’t belong to a single person, every jaat keeps this name and no one charges the other for copyright, thats brotherhood for you.
Talking of brotherhood, i must admit we aint that aggressive, infact we love people .......but the condition is the person a jaat guy would love would either be a hot girl or another jaat. I mean we love our race i’ll tell you another incident when one of my jaat brother rushed into the library looking for someone and i asked him why is he here and he said he was looking for a guy who eve-teased his girl friend, i being a loyal jaat brother joined him and charged towards the guy in his classroom, we were so fearless or dumb i should say that we called the whole gang out and as the two parties started heating up they realized that they belong to the same community, yes even the eve-teaser was a jaat (we should have known) and then met Ram and Bharat, they hugged each other and apologized to each other. There goes our award for being a good boy friend.
Now the most important question, how do you recognize a jaat......well its easy, a jaat by built is very strong, specially his back, his back is so broad as if his ancestors weren’t monkeys but horses. They wear very tight fitting clothes, body hugging, extremely tight, usually they have a good body naturally as if they were working out even before they were born. They prefer keeping very short hair and moustaches, the young ones like me can afford to be clean shaven and have long hair but as you get older you need to buy a DUNALI of your own that you can carry along with you to make people envy you as if every person around doesn’t dream of a Ferrari but a dunalli. They have messages written behind their bike/cars for eg. “JAAT BLOOD”, “JAAT BOY”, “ROYAL JAT” ,”JAT RISKY AFTER WHISKEY” and there is a new version of it in town now which is extreme of their creativity “JAAT RISKY WITHOUT WHISKY”. They sport it behind their rides, don’t know why may be they expect the signals to go green when the traffic guy sees the tag of a jaat on the ride or may be all the other cars and bikes start clearing up the road and make way for the ride. We can think of anything, remember we are a smart community.
But no matter what i am proud to be a jaat, i love the brotherhood and the will to die for the fellow mate in me, the fearlessness, the stubbornness to do something which people think cannot be done, the dumbness of never counting the odds in front of you, the pride one takes of his individuality and not turning into a wanna-be.
Yes i am proud of everything and i have planned to buy a HONDA CRV soon but i wont disappoint as i’ll get “JAAT BLOOD PRINCE” written on the back of it or may be even get a tattoo done which says the same.
Friday, July 31, 2009
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its v rivetting Adi.. Love this one too..
ReplyDeletebtw.. after reading this, im thinkin u shud call ur blog JAAT-GIRI instead of HERO-GIRI.. ;)
Keep up the good work...!!
Remember it might just pay us sometime soon.. he he.. :)