Today, after 72 years since Partition, the Sikhs from Punjab can visit the beautiful Kartarpur Gurdwara Sahib. The importance of this occasion is historic not just because of the remarkable speed in which the corridor and the development of the entire Gurdwara complex was planned and completed but also the opening of the corridor will bring the two Punjabs together and hopefully brings peace between the two countries. Let us celebrate the 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and let us also thank the laborers, architects and engineers who have worked day and night to make this grand occasion possible.
In his autobiography Punjabi Century 1857-1947 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1961), the late scholar and neuroscientist Prakash Lal Tandon wrote about his Punjabi family's three generations that spanned from Maharaja Ranjit Singh's era to 1947. Book provides fascinating details about the rise of the Punjabi Khatris during the British rule of Punjab; their origins from Bhera, West Punjab to the expansion of their businesses across Punjab, their lifestyle in Lahore, and the abrupt end of his family's West Punjabi links in 1947. Excerpt: Today we have no one left in West Punjab. All the Hindus came away at partition. It is strange to think that in all the land between Ravi and
