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Punjabi Cuisine of More than 100 Dishes for
Vesakhi Day Celebration
KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) - Punjabi cuisine of more than 100 traditional dishes, including radish and dhall capati, will be offered to
guests at the Sikh temple, Gurdwara Sahib Sunway on Saturday in conjunction with Vesakhi Day celebration.
The organising secretary for the celebration, Sarjit Kaur said today this was the first time th temple was celebrating the birth anniversary of the
Sikh and Khalsa brotherhoods in a grand manner in conjunction with the relocation of the Gurdwara Sahib.
The celebration would start on Thursday evening with the recital of the holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib for 48 hours continuously, she told
Bernama here.
She said the session would end by Saturday evening and would be followed by a carnival to showcase the community tradition and culture,
including the Gidda dance that would be performed by Punjabi women and the famous bhangra dance as vesakhi day was also a celebration to
mark the harvest festival in northern India.
Our objective in organising this event is to connect and educate our current generation as well as other races to the Punjabi fine arts, festival,
food and its rich culture, she said.
Sarjit said the women would cook the various traditional dishes at the temple on Saturday, beginning as early as 7am, and there would be food
enough to feed about 1000 people.
Besides the different types of capati and curry, they would also cook ghee and briyani rice and various sweet dishes, among others the jelebi,
ladoo and gulabjamun.
The carnival is open to the public from 8.30pm to 11pm on Saturday, she said.
Meanwhile, temple president Jaswant Singh said that to commemorate Vasakhi Day, the temple would also fly a Sikh flag called Nishan Sahib
which carries the Sikh emblem, the Khanda on Friday.
The triangular flag with the emblem would be raised with protocol and accompanied by the performance of the Sri Dasmesh Band, a uniformed
bagpipe and drum band, he said adding that the Nishan Sahib was the symbol of sovereignty of Sikh ideology.
Meanwhile, a Khanda, a three-metre long hand-made double-edge sword made of brass and gold plated which was flown in from India, would
be placed on top of the 51 feet flag pole making it to be the tallest Khanda at a Gurdwara in Malaysia, he said.
The Gurdwara Sahib Sunway was relocated to its new venue near a housing area here last year and has been serving 300 Punjabi families in
the vicinity.
Vesakhi Day Celebration
KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) - Punjabi cuisine of more than 100 traditional dishes, including radish and dhall capati, will be offered to
guests at the Sikh temple, Gurdwara Sahib Sunway on Saturday in conjunction with Vesakhi Day celebration.
The organising secretary for the celebration, Sarjit Kaur said today this was the first time th temple was celebrating the birth anniversary of the
Sikh and Khalsa brotherhoods in a grand manner in conjunction with the relocation of the Gurdwara Sahib.
The celebration would start on Thursday evening with the recital of the holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib for 48 hours continuously, she told
Bernama here.
She said the session would end by Saturday evening and would be followed by a carnival to showcase the community tradition and culture,
including the Gidda dance that would be performed by Punjabi women and the famous bhangra dance as vesakhi day was also a celebration to
mark the harvest festival in northern India.
Our objective in organising this event is to connect and educate our current generation as well as other races to the Punjabi fine arts, festival,
food and its rich culture, she said.
Sarjit said the women would cook the various traditional dishes at the temple on Saturday, beginning as early as 7am, and there would be food
enough to feed about 1000 people.
Besides the different types of capati and curry, they would also cook ghee and briyani rice and various sweet dishes, among others the jelebi,
ladoo and gulabjamun.
The carnival is open to the public from 8.30pm to 11pm on Saturday, she said.
Meanwhile, temple president Jaswant Singh said that to commemorate Vasakhi Day, the temple would also fly a Sikh flag called Nishan Sahib
which carries the Sikh emblem, the Khanda on Friday.
The triangular flag with the emblem would be raised with protocol and accompanied by the performance of the Sri Dasmesh Band, a uniformed
bagpipe and drum band, he said adding that the Nishan Sahib was the symbol of sovereignty of Sikh ideology.
Meanwhile, a Khanda, a three-metre long hand-made double-edge sword made of brass and gold plated which was flown in from India, would
be placed on top of the 51 feet flag pole making it to be the tallest Khanda at a Gurdwara in Malaysia, he said.
The Gurdwara Sahib Sunway was relocated to its new venue near a housing area here last year and has been serving 300 Punjabi families in
the vicinity.