Gajinder Singh Dal Khalsa

Jan 10, 2011

Fateh

Posted by Gajinder Singh at 8:36 AM

Gajinder Singh: I am in exile. For the last 29 years. Living in exile is a unique journey. Very few people hurdling through the passage of life are endowed with the privilege of living through this kind of existence. The journey of going "into exile" and the path from exile to freedom for any individual or nation has to be a long, painful and arduous one. It has been so for the Sikhs in the past and even today it is so. When I was very young, my father secured my Sikhi and my mother instilled the spirit and essence of Sikhi. My key inspiration was Sirdar Kapur Singh. In a sense, I went into exile the day my mother educated me about the concept of "sikhi khanneo tikhi- the path of Sikhi is razor-thin" and the importance and significance of "my own home". While I was still studying in Chandigarh, I went in search of "my own home". I went "into exile." Since then, I have lived life thus. During the course of the present phase of life, many a friend has posed this to me, "Don't you feel like "going home"? My reply has been, "which home –the one which has rendered me stateless and forced me into "living in exile"?

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