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Birth of ShugliJugli from Santa Banta

by Gyanvitaranam

    Like the w o r s t j o k e s , we’ve become too predictable as a country, filing up punch lines Yet, I giggle out this today, when I read in newspaper Sikh woman gave the plea on Supreme Court seeking ban on Sardar jokes online. My own reactions to Sardar jokes are pretty different. As a normal person, you either ignore them or laugh them off.

   As a layman, I say “Same old thing, dude. Try something different.” After the petition filled in the Supreme Court, comedians and the vloggers have started taking precaution involving in adding Santa Banta jokes in their profession. Santa Banta has made way for ShugliJugli now. You got it right, Two Sikh Comedians who have been the stage under names of Santa Banta for the past eighteen years have announced to drop their stage names and adapt new ones. I was 7-8 years old, when I guess Sardar jokes happened on books by famous comedian Jaswant Singh, Khugi and Jaspal Bhatti on Doordarshan....

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