punjabi

No argument against the fact that Sikhs are a hard-working people, but its a stretch to say Indian cuisine found in most Indian restaurants in the West is Punjabi cuisine.

For instance you almost never find Sarson da Saag or Makki di roti in any restaurant, so cannot really call it Punjabi food.

The Indian cusine that is found outside India is predominantly a Punjabi cusine.

If they had Indian, you'd get a Punjabi first name, an Urdu surname, and a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird in your New Delhi driveway.

Based on the applicant pool it'll probably be me and 3 Punjabi males assuming I hire purely based on ability [1].

Most Punjabi Sikh first names are applicable to both genders.

It's is the common conception of Indian food based on what is usually available in the States, but that's usually only Punjabi food, and even for Punjabi food it's the sort of cuisine that you'd cater for a wedding.

Saying that Sindhi is Naskh based language while Punjabi is Nastaleeq based language is like saying English is Arial based language while French is Times New Roman based.

I'm a native Urdu (Hindi hehe) speaker and though I can understand the gist of a fast-paced Punjabi conversation, jumping in to participate is whole different matter.

I suspect most of our modern eating habits are blameable on the Victorians - although having said that, Queen Victoria had her own Punjabi chef to make her curries!

Great observation--came here to say the same, but I have to disagree that jumping from Hindi to Punjabi (for example), even with a little bit of practice, is simple.

Based on what I know of Indian cuisine(north India Punjabi though it is one of the most popular that has been exported outside), these three ingredients are used very often.

India most definitely did not "provoke" this; that was all Pakistan's doing because the Punjabi-elite refused to accept a democratic verdict.

The term "gehri" has a punjabi slang attached to it.

I also don't know why it would be the "right thing to do" to hire a Maharashtrian relative over a Punjabi - but that might be because I don't believe in group rights.

But Hindi has sort of the same issues as "Chinese"; Hindi is but one of many "Indian" languages and members of your outsource group might be native Punjabi or Gujarati speakers.

Punjabi, which my parents spoke, on the other hand, prefers nastaliq, and regionally the two places are adjacet.

We have a large South Asian population, many of whom are Punjabi.

There are also more widely used regional languages recognized by state governments, such as Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, and the author's native Bengali.