It’s about recovering the middle ground before the secularism debate swerves too far right or left, and becomes a lost cause. For years, I was convinced that religion was the great divide; now I have come to understand that faith can be the healer.
Amritsar, December 16, 2005
The older generation of the Singhs travel outside their home on the outskirts of Amritsar only to visit gurudwaras. The younger generation have been to Kasauli, Kulu Manali and other hill stations, but for the older lot - holiday=gurudwara. Now with a Lahore-Amritsar bus to roll in late Jan 2006, there's hope that crossing over into Pakistan to see the Nankana Sahib and Punja Sahib etc. might become easier. This, after all, is the bus that connects two arms of an earlier undivided Punjab and its people.
