Jalandhar Top 5 of 2008

Jalandhar was a happening place during 2008. It saw many ups and downs during the year. These are the Top 5 things that were in news and had will most likely affect Jalandharies for the time to come.
5. Crime : Let us start with the bad. This year crime was on high in Jalandhar. Apart from usual increase in crimes related to increase in drugs/smack proliferation and petty crimes such as bag/chain snatching cases. There were some kidnapping cases. In most of them Police did well and caught the culprits.The crime that shook Jalandhar was the murder of Ms. Rita Bawa. Rita Bawa was the principle of Kanya Maha Vidyalya, a pestigious girl college in Jalandhar. She was found murdered on Jan 05,2008 along with her cook and two security guards. This high profile quadruple shook the otherwise quite city as far as murders. There were so many rumors and suspicion was raised about the involvement of some high profile people. There were rumors of sex scandal and suspicion was that someone was there to recover some CDs from her residence. In the end few Bhaiyas from Bihar have been arrested and supposedly they murdered her and 3 others for her jewellery and money. Well case is in courst so not much can be said at this time.
4. Politics: There were many political news this year. The elections of youth congress were held. Jalandhar lost one of rising star of Jalandhar Politics; Ex-Punjab Youth Congress President Mr. Devinder Singh Babbu. Elections were held to many Panchayats and muni Councils. But one of big news was also related to crime. Sukhmit Singh Deputy,local councillor and a rising star of local politics confessed to the kidnapping of City youth Gagan Mickey and releasing him after getting a ransom of 1 crore. So basically case was cracked relatively quickly by local police and nabbed all of main accused. But rumors and conspiracy theories are still going around Jalandhar about involvement of other high profile people.
3. Entertainment: Jalandhar had produced many world class entertainers and they continued to rock and entertain the world. But this year we saw the rise of Sugandha Mishra to fame. We wish her success. Singh is King also rocked us Jalandharies and now we are loving Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.
2. Sports: Same as last year, our Jalandhari Bhajji continues to rule the hearts of Jalandharies. He achieved many new milestones in his career including the milestone of 300 test wickets in test cricket and becoming only the third Indian (after Kumble and Kapil Dev) to do so. He was also in the news for slapping Shreesanth , for his dance shows and "Mainu Ki" incident. Jalandharies always supported him and never doubted his ethics. We wish him in the coming year he breaks more and more records. In other big sports news, Jalandhar is hoping to have the renovation of Burlton Park completed soon so that Jalandhar can host the internationa ODIs and test. We are looking forward to it.
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1. Now we want to shamelessly. toot our own horn. Finally Jalandharies Got their own world class website. www.Jalandhari.com. We wish Jalandharies all over the world will support us in our effort. We wish all Jalandharies a very Happy New year and may the next year bring you a lot of happiness and joy.

Aadab From Across the Border followup...

Here are some more thoughts from respected Sheikh Sarwar Ji who sent his lovely memories of Jalandhar earlier and has been posted in the blog :
"You know - I believe - what happened! Families used to meet at marriage parties and other celebrations and used tointroduce afresh own children to elders of other families; and vis-versa; so, the relations and faces were imprinted inthe minds of youngsters. Elders used to pat and move hand over heads of known chilldren, ask for welfare of family.salam, dua, pyar. And, nobody expected families will be departed in so short time with unpleasant journey thatremoved the faces and memories about families and relatives from youngsters. Thereafter, everybody got busy inearning livelihood and lot contact with each other for some time if not for ever. Children grew older, got into theirown worries; nobody cared to look back. I have hurriedly put my memories on the net thinking someday sometimesomeone will find someone's name (at least) from family. In religion line as well as in families; people (I salute tothose people) who charted family trees; I took only one sheet of paper. Closer inter-family photographs were alsotaken and could be seen in houses. Now photographs of marriage/birthday parties are kept in albums and when some guest comes couple of albumsare thrown for them to see. Then unknown faces for the onlookers are pointed with finger; she is ??? he is......etc. etc. Another step over this with the younger generation; "why should I know, who is who - I have no time. I am busy..etc. Same generations travels a long way to see monuments; buildings by emperors, civilizations burried andunearthed. == There is always dark under the candle". Sachin, please put my feelings in my related blogs. Ashwani ji, aap se bhi pararthna hai to put it there soour children should known what I want they should have a feel of. Regards,Sheikh Sarwar"