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.
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). Best Punjabi songs
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. Then, late at night on the Coquihalla Highway—a
When the DJ played —a song from 2011 that everyone knew the words to—Simran leaned in and shouted over the bass: “This is the best one. It never gets old.” Gippy had left his village near Ludhiana two