by SHIVAM VIJ
So on Facebook I saw a fellow Punjabi who lives in vilayat has listed his hometown as Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan, which I thought was very cool. Why didn’t I get this idea? Never mind, I thought, like all good ideas this must be stolen. My hometown on Facebook now is also Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan. It was only much after going mad over Manto’s story did I discover that Toba Tek Singh was a real place in west Punjab. Always wondered what its people thought about the story.
LMAO, said a Facebook friend from Isloo, in a private message. Do you know, he said, that Toba Tek Singh the real place in Pakistan is full of painDoo Jutts who are the butt of all jokes?
And I thought I was being profound by claiming to hail from Toba Tek Singh. (Better revert to Lahore now, whose resident I would have been had Radcliffe not drawn that line.)
So I asked my Isloo friend to give me a sample of painDoo jokes. His reply:
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(Thanks to Robin Khundkar)