Now, Chinese LED pots illuminate Jago in state

Varinder Singh

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 20

After Chinese kirpans (swords) flooded the Indian market, Chinese pots are now becoming very popular with these pots being used in Punjabi wedding ceremony Jago.

Jago is an important part of Punjabi culture and is held to welcome the bride to her husband’s home with women dancing and singing folk songs a night before the wedding.

Earlier, the groom’s ‘maami’ (aunt) would go around the neigbourhood carrying a big bright brass jug or a huge pot decorated with oil-filled earthen lamps to ask everyone to join the wedding celebrations.

However, nowadays the old pot has been replaced by a plastic pot decorated with colourful and blinking LED lights that are powered by batteries.

“These Chinese ‘Jago’ pots are available for Rs 300-500,” says Jalandhar-based electric goods dealer TS Bedi. “People now prefer LED studded Jago pots. These are also rented out in the markets.” He further said some local electricians also converted stainless steel pots into Jago pots and rented these out for weddings.

Paramjit Singh Janjua, who hired new Chinese-made Jago pots for the his son’s wedding, said these pots were very convenient as the old earthen lamps needed to be filled with mustard oil repeatedly.