Trip to India

some pictures from trip this year

Pictures taken from outside of my village facing Pakistan...you can see the barbed wire fence built in last 15 years...this wall follows the zig zag border line marked by primid shaped boundary markers in white color spaced few hundred meters from each other....barbed wire fence is on Indian side of this real border line so one can’t go and see these without getting permission from BSF post...I remember from childhood when we used to see it and touch in person...one side of it had Pakistan and other India written on it.



There is a small tract of land lying between border markers and barbed wire fence...farmers need daily permit to cross the fence to look after their crops...but it is usually small patches of land only.



Many years ago...land on Pakistan used to be uncultivated and barren facing our village...in 80’s our side was fully cultivated and was irrigated by electric tubewells...but this is the first time I saw Pakistani side of the farms also cultivated and green upto the border...I could see electric poles on that side also coming to the tubewells.



View from above the rooftop of newly built gurdwara is mroe clear. These pictures are taken on two different days I visited my pinD.


really poor condition of a rural road.


chickens being taken to slaughter house.


Golden temple


stone frescos on the floor of Darbar Sahib gurdwara in Tarn Taran.







My brother inlaw drinking water from the tubewell in front of our almost abandoned home....this water tub was rebuilt by care takers many years after our family moved to North America but they engraved my and my brothers name on the tub. whenever I look at these names feels like a graveyard of our memories...memory that once we lived here.


Amritsar airport..freshly built portion..built after my trip last year.



Passengers leaving the airplane and moving towards the building housing immigration etc.


Following used to be a canal flowing to the top only 20 years ago. Now it sees only occassional rain water. Kids are using it as play ground for cricket.


Scenes from Cultural museum in Haveli complex near Jalandhar. (Haveli pictures are from last year)