Songs — Best Punjabi

Gippy never did decide on a single “best” Punjabi song. But driving back to Surrey after the wedding, he built a playlist he titled Highway to Punjab .

It started with (the energy of a new beginning). It moved through “So High” (the confidence of the diaspora). It paused on “Ikk Kudi” (the one that got away). It ended with “Mithi Mithi” (the sweetness of coming home). Best Punjabi songs

Gippy had left his village near Ludhiana two years prior, following his father’s footsteps into the long-haul trucking business. The Canadian highways were vast and lonely. His only companion was a binder of scratched CDs and a USB stick dangling from the stereo of his Volvo truck. Every night, parked at a rest stop near Hope, he would scroll through the same folders. He was searching for the perfect song—not just a beat to tap the steering wheel to, but a song that could collapse the 11,000 kilometers between his truck’s cab and the brick-walled courtyard of his pind (village). Gippy never did decide on a single “best” Punjabi song

Then, late at night on the Coquihalla Highway—a stretch of road famous for its deadly curves—he scrolled to a sad song he usually skipped. . But the real knife in the heart was “Titliaan” by Harvy Sandhu (2021) —a song that sounds upbeat but hides a lyric about a love that flies away like a butterfly. It moved through “So High” (the confidence of

The year was 2012, and for , a 19-year-old truck driver in Surrey, British Columbia, the phrase “Best Punjabi Songs” wasn’t a playlist—it was a lifeline.

Then, at his cousin’s wedding in Brampton, the DJ dropped . The floor exploded. Gippy saw an old friend, a girl named Simran who worked at the same depot. She pulled him onto the floor. As “High Rated Gabru” by Guru Randhawa transitioned into “Lemonade” by Diljit , Gippy forgot the highway. He forgot the broken engagement.

Six months later, Gippy’s fiancée back in Ludhiana called off the engagement. She said he was “too Canadian” now. He was too quiet, too serious. The news broke him. For two weeks, he drove in silence.