भारत और पाकिस्तान में सिख पूजा स्थल - वीज़ा के विकास के बिना करतारपुर क्यों इतना यादगार है 

Three kilometers from the Indian outskirt, in the serene green fields of the Narowal locale of Punjab in Pakistan is an unassuming sacrosanct place of worship: Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib. It's the last resting spot of Guru Nanak (1469-1539), originator of the Sikh confidence.

On the opposite side of the waterway Ravi, about a kilometer inside the outskirt in the Gurdaspur region of Punjab in India, is the clamoring sacred town of Dera Baba Nanak. Here stands Gurdwara Shri Darbar Sahib, related with the life and group of a similar first Sikh master.

On a sunny morning, both are noticeable to one another. In any case, the Radcliffe Line, attracted August 1947 among Pakistan and India, guarantees that movement for the normal Indian or Pakistani is unthinkable over this worldwide outskirt. India's Sikh people group is generally around 20m individuals – under 2% of India's populace of over a billion. The greater part of them live in the Punjab, India and are cut off from the most critical hallowed places related with the originator of their confidence, all situated in Punjab, Pakistan.

On November 28, the legislatures of India and Pakistan made a pivotal stride towards making a hallway between these two gurdwaras to empower sans visa travel for pioneers. An establishment stone-laying service denoted the start of its development on the Pakistani side and it's trusted that this Kartarpur passage will be prepared in 2019, when Sikhs mark the 550th commemoration of Guru Nanak's introduction to the world.

Slice off to most Sikh pioneers

Sikhs lost the most from the parcel of British India in 1947, as their otherworldly and material country got partitioned between India, a greater part Hindu nation, and Pakistan, dominant part Muslim. The Kartarpur hall, with an extension over the waterway, had been mooted for just about a fourth of a century prior to it developed officially in 1999. Be that as it may, because of two uncertain and threatening states, it never appeared.

As a Punjabi and as a scholastic of the Punjab, I've gone through the most recent 18 years dealing with the divided history of this separated locale and the implications of the full connection among India and Pakistan. I have crossed the Radcliffe Line at the Wagha-Attari checkpoint – made notorious by its every day banner bringing down custom joined by the sounds and sights of a manly, jingoistic display – various occasions. Amusingly, as a British resident, I'm advantaged enough to cross this checkpoint – the main open outskirt crossing – paying little mind to the political atmosphere between the two countries.It torments me to see this separated inheritance and biased nationalistic appendages spread over the social, social and financial milieu of this noteworthy area. As a Sikh, I'm surrendered to the way that most Sikhs will always be unable to visit the origin of Guru Nanak and where he settled, lectured and died. He went through the most recent 18 years of his life living in Kartarpur, setting up the first Gurdwara and building up the primary Sikh people group. It was here that langar (mutual cooking and feasting, without cost or partiality), a vital, famous piece of the Sikh confidence, started.

In April 2017, I visited Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan just because. What's striking once you move beyond the security is a feeling of quiet that overruns the spot. The first, sixteenth century place of worship was on the banks of the stream Ravi and was attacked by floods. The present structure was worked from 1920 to 1929 with a royal gift from the Maharaja of Patiala.

Since August 1947, the site has remained generally shut to the general population. During the 1980s, it was connected to the Sikh dissenter Khalistan development (a Sikh patriot development needing a different state). Notwithstanding further fixes and reclamation during the 1990s and mid 2000s, it has remained to a great extent off the typical Sikh pioneer circuit of Lahore-Nankana Sahib-Hasan Abdul, which are the spots Sikhs are ordinarily allowed to visit in Pakistan.

An entrancing, and befitting, part of Kartarpur is its obvious intrigue to non-Sikh people group. Master Nanak is loved by Hindus and Muslims just as Sikhs. During my visit, I saw just a little stream of neighborhood, generally Muslim travelers who'd come to give proper respect to Baba Nanak. It is these lovers who guaranteed that the sanctum was rarely relinquished.

An act of pure trust

The without visa passage exhibits genuine open doors for the Sikh people group and for India-Pakistan relations. However the quick reaction has been Janus-confronted: then again euphoric and vigilant. While Pakistan's PM, Imran Khan, went to the ongoing service and established the framework stone, India's head administrator, remote clergyman, and the central pastor of Indian Punjab, remained away, refering to Pakistan's supposed contribution in late occurrences of fear based oppression in India.

It is anything but difficult to be pessimistic about the essentialness of the new hall, on the grounds that the two India and Pakistan have neglected to locate a quiet method for living respectively for as far back as 71 years. Numerous open doors for harmony have been wasted before. This most recent activity, while welcome, stays a neighborhood undertaking and is probably not going to affect on the strained governmental issues of the connection between the two nations.

It may well demonstrate to just be a vanity venture for Khan, yet at the same time it presents Pakistan with a chance to offer a tranquil fig leaf to India. Maybe India is glad to have along for the time being as influence of a procedure to improve its remaining in Punjab in front of decisions due in 2019. Be that as it may, for the Sikh people group this may even now be a foreboding minute, promising some customary, whenever restricted, association with the dirt of Guru Nanak.