Click to play videoJalandhar: Amarjit Kaur of Jalandhar wants to settle down in Canada with her husband. This is exactly the reason for her to be at Talhan Gurudwara near Jalandhar to offer a toy aircraft, so that she will be able to live her dreams.
“I am offering a plane to God. I want to be with my husband. The family must be together,” says a devotee Amarjeet Kaur.
For Punjabis, especially those living in the Doaba region, to go abroad is in vogue. Instead of making huge payments to unscrupulous operators, people think there is no harm in making a wish at the holy shrine. But the Gurudwara management has a problem on hand in grounding hundreds of aircraft models that are offered at the shrine.
“If somebody’s son or relative is living abroad then believe that they can go to them by offering a plane here,” says Hymm reader at the gurudwara, Jaswinder Singh.
Delighted with the rituals are the shopkeepers who line the approach to the shrine. Every Sunday they sell 100 to 150 model aircraft to devotees.
One cannot say for sure how many manage to go abroad after making the offerings, but whatever the statistics say, hundreds of aircraft models continue to jostle for parking space at the Gurudwara Talhan Sahib.
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