Sardar Jokes

Teja Singh Bhambra

Mumtaz Jahan

Now that the Lok Sabha polls are over, Mumtaz Jahan made an appearance today. She is an ardent supporter of Sharad Pawar and his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Sardar Teja Singh Bhambra was also back, after a short holiday at Alibaug. Yesterday, Arun Patil returned after a two-month hiatus. Tomorrow, Hari Singh Shekhawat is likely to return from his village in Rajasthan…
But more than these homing pigeons, what seemed to have caught the imagination of the Club today was a brand of humour that passes for ‘sardar jokes’. Never before had so many jokes of this variety been narrated, starting with Jagmohan Papneja’s account of a sardar who stumbled upon his wife sitting on her boss’s lap in office. “Had I known there were not enough chairs in your office, I would never have allowed you to work here,” he quipped.
Another sardar, according to Dilip Babani, was spotted distributing sweets to ‘celebrate’ his scooter getting stolen. “Thank God, I was not on that scooter,” he explained. “Else, I too would have been stolen!”

Nahid Khan narrates her ghost story!

Santosh Tyagi came up with a variant of the same joke, again involving a sardar. Here, the sardar was seen distributing sweets after losing an expensive mobile phone. “Why should I worry, when the mobile’s charger is still with me?” was the simpleton’s explanation.
The best, as they say, was reserved for the last and it came from Nahid Khan. She did not bring up a sardar (or any other community) because it was about a conversation between two ghosts. They had been friends and were naturally shocked to find one another in a disembodied state in the other world.
“What happened?” one ghost asked the other.
“What to say… I had all along suspected my wife of having an affair behind my back. When I found she was actually innocent, I couldn’t believe it. I died of shock and guilt. But how did you get here?”
“Arrey, if only you had opened the fridge – neither would you have died of guilt nor would I have frozen to death!” Convoluted though, it was zany enough to raise a big laaf.
Jagmohan Papneja:
Sometimes a joke is not intended to make you laugh. It may be intended to make you think.
Harish Wadhwa:
Nice jokes on sardars. You may hear many such jokes which they will themselves share; but they are men with a 56-inch chest and an elephant's heart. Look at our dear Teja Singh-ji. He is the most handsome sardar I have met in recent times. Look at the glow on his face, that signature blue turban, the killer smile (ambushed by a mature grin) and the humility with which he conducts himself. There is so much to learn from him. God bless this Sardar of Faridabad with a long and very happy life.