A Sneezy Snippet from the Buffalo Land

 

He comes from the Jat stock. The arms working quicker than the brain, the culture being the agriculture, the government services generally meaning the police and the military—well these are some of the fundamental traits of the Jats. Oh just forgot the Haryanvi dialect that literally sums up the Jat attitude of being on top of this world in wisdom, knowledge, strength, stamina, guts, looks, sacrifice, etc., etc. There is one more historical element that qualifies as the defining element in the proud definition of being a Jat: love for the water buffaloes. Even a historian during the time of Alexander the Great notified that ‘these (Jats) people have a special affection for water buffaloes’. The Jat does not feel the pinch when some bruised city dweller dubs him as a ‘buffalo mind’ from the ‘buffalo land’. That’s true at least literally. Now coming to the time-tested fact of these people’s love for the water buffaloes! Sometimes back his mother sold her buffalo to a tough farmer. Now this one had been brought up by his mom like it was her daughter. Pampered to the hilt I tell you. But then taking care of this pampered one, whose requirements were seriously reaching human levels, was proving to be too tiresome for her. So she was forced to sell the spoilt animal. The buyer, a rough and rowdy farmer, was famous as the number one wife-beater in the village. While handing over the rope to this work brute, his teary-eyed mother said, ‘Son, hope you won’t mistreat this gudiya of mine!' 'I never beat buffaloes.....', prompt came the reply, 'I just.....', he stopped a bit embarrassed. He just stopped himself from saying that he beat his wife only. Well that shows the Jat’s respect for the animal. You can say it is more or less equal to their womenfolk. The menfolk are male buffaloes anyway!