Bhagat puran singh autobiography

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Rendered homeless and penniless after the Partition in , and with no help forthcoming from any quarter, he would sit begging outside the entrance of the Golden Temple, and use the money he collected to buy food and medicines for his patients. By , he had set up the first Pingalwara a community dedicated to the care of the disabled, the destitute and the diseased in Amritsar.

It was several years before the Punjab government became aware of Bhagat Puran Singh's selfless enterprise and the Pingalwara was sanctioned an annual grant from the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, enabling him to expand the institution. For his unmatched service to humanity, Bhagatji was awarded the Padma Shri in , which he returned in as a protest against Operation Blue Star.

His Sacred Burden is a well-researched and moving biography of this great man whose legacy continues to inspire some of India's best minds. Profusely illustrated and anecdotal, it also carries a compilation of Bhagatji's personal jottings and the letters the author shared with him.