In the market at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan Administered Kashmir, as we were parking the car, a man had approached and asked in Punjabi, “Sardar ji, what brings you to Muzaffarabad?” Through our conversation, I had gathered that he hailed from a nearby village. Being aware of the vibrant Sikh community...
Excerpts from the brochure on ‘THE SIKH LEGACY IN PAKISTAN’, hosted by ‘Pama Peel Art Gallery Museum Archives’ in Toronto from April – July 2018.
In the map are pinpointed, the 126 cities/villages across Kashmir, Baltistan, North-West Frontier Province, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan that are covered in the two books entitled “LOST HERITAGE The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan” and “THE QUEST CONTINUES: LOST HERITAGE The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan”.
Indian subcontinent gained Independence in 1947 from the colonial rule, leading to the annihilation of Nanak’s appreciators from the Indus basin. Yet, in the hall of the abandoned Arambagh Gurdwara in Karachi (Pakistan), in a framed canvas picture, Guru Nanak sits awaiting! Photographed in Feb 2017, during the research for...
During a visit to the ‘Gurdwara Gali’ in Abbottabad (Pakistan), at a toy shop, peering at the decrepit Gurmukhi panel above the gate, I could read ‘Gurdwara Shri Guru Singh Sabha’. In that moment of intense gaze, I imagined my maternal grandparents visiting this site for their spiritual fulfilment. Since...
