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Migration from one place to the other is a universal aspect of a majority of creatures inhabiting this planet. All such creatures throng a particular region due to the diversity of opportunitiesmavailable to them in one form or the other. This has been the trend ever since life originated on this earth. Birds and animals flock to a region found cozy for survival. This tendency is found in Siberian cranes that travel about 5000 kilometers to reach India during winters. Coming on to
humanity, this trend of migration is more visible in regions where there are not sufficient facilities available for the Homo sapiens to grow in harmony with the environment around them. As and when they find a particular aspect of that region not suitable for their all-round development or growth, they find it better to embark on a search for still better avenues. Punjab, a state known as food bowl of India, underwent a holocaustic change in its nature
with Punjabis migrating to the Middle East, European nations and the U.S.A. to find what they could not get in their motherland. Incidentally, a majority of these Punjabis were from hardworking agriculturist families with a long lineage of farming as their chief occupation over the centuries.