The Continuation of The Story

Now we shall continue on with the story of Darbarra Singh. Where we had left of Kehar Singh had managed to kill the attacking lion. This is what happended afterwards, as the story continues:

He was well versed in Punjabi and was very regular in saying his prayers, attending the regimental Guardwara, giving discources on special religious days and organising and managing the religious activities as an ideal Sikh for the other Sikh soliders and Officers. His trhougt and his word was his action which enlightened, inspired and purified his life. He had served the army for twenty years but was still a bachelor. His days of retitrement to go on pension were approaching. He was still thirthy-nine but was in better health, greater happiness and bloom than many teenagers or his colleagues in early twenties. Something unexpected happended in the platoon. A halvidar died and his young widow was left behind who had no child. Many colleagues decided and made that young widow willing to marry Kehar Singh who was going on pension just after a few months. In those days, the widow remarriage was a social taboo. So, if left a widow, then her whole life was to be condomned to loneliness, negligance, inferior status and dehumanising drudgery in the house of her in-laws or in that of her parents. Kehar Singh accpected that proposal more as reformary action. Hence, his marriage to the widow, named Bibi Rattan Kaur was consummated according to Sikh rites. In 1909 some months after his marraige, Kehar Singh retired and came back to his native villiage of Jarg, getting a monthly pension of seven rupees. Bibi Rattan Kaur was a very wise women of religious ideas. Like her husband, she knew how to read the Guru Granth Sahib and often read book on Sikh Religion and history. Kehar Singh's mother, Harman Kaur was very happy to have a daughter-in-law, so beautiful, wise, humble,devoted good-natured and well versed in household affairs . Three happy years passed at Jarg and in 1912 a beautiful son was born to Rattan Kaur but unfortunetly his mother died when he was only 21 days old. What a tragedy! The grandmother Harman Kaur and father Kehar Singh humbly and quietly bowed to the will of God, with a spirit o resignation. Therefore, the grandmother took the entire responsability of brining up the motherless child who was to be named Darbarra Singh. A few moths after the birth of Darbarra Singh, Kehar Singh alongwith his mother, son and two brothers migrated to the village of Dalla Chanda Singh, Chak number 85, District Shiekhupur, where he bagan to cultivate land taken on lease.

The Story Continues...

Now, I shall continue with the story of Darbarra Singh. When we had left off, Kehar Singh had been on the ground with a lion. A event that had occurded due to the fact that he had gone hunting with the British and had not climbed on the tree. The following is the story:

Then what? The roaring tiger pounced upon Kehar Singh and the agile, fearless and resolute solider thrust his spear into the mouth of the tiger. The wounded and ferocious beast put his whole weight and force to reach the human combatant who did the same on his side. Lo, both the tigers, one called Sher and the other called Kehar, roared at each other. The spear pierced through the mouth, the wind-pipe and the neck of the tiger. The Englishman took a photo of the bout on his hand-camera, when the fight was still on. That photo is published in the famous and voluminious book, "Shaheedi Jiwan," by Sardar Gurbaskh Singh Shamsher Jhabalia, published in 1938. The tiger died writing like a fish. The British Army Officer came down from the tree, patted, embraced, and applauded Kehar Singh.

I do not understand why some people believe that Operation Bluestar is appropriate. The Indian Government is intent upon uprooting the lives of Sikhs as it has been proven time and time again. During the aftermath of the Air India bombing, the Indian government immediately blamed Sikhs and held them responsible. They were not satisfies with the innocent butchering of Sikhs in 1984 in India, now they were going world-wide. Sikhs were and are being blasted in the main stream main stream media because of this. Propaganda is even being spread about Sant Jarnail Ji Singh Khalsa Bhindrawale himself; about him murdering people and if the root of this propaganda is traced it will be the same people who are not happy with the success of Sikhs. I do not understand why Sikhs of my generation fall back upon propaganda about 1984 when eyewitness accounts have stated that it is all false. It really makes me sad to know this. Please if you do not know who to trust invest some time watching this documentary (It is only 10 minutes long) and the truth will be as clear as water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngnCl3PrU8&feature=youtube_gdata

Apologies about spelling mistakes.

To all of my fellow readers,

I would like to sincerly apologize for any spelling mistakes that I have made in any of my posts, I hope that they have not taken away from the blog. I will correct any that I see, please tell me if you see any. I shall post the story of Darbarra Singh in due course.

DARBARRA SINGH: THE STORY CONTINUES.

We had left of our srory of the of Darbarra Singh at just the introduction, now we shall continue it.

In 1887, he joined the army in platoon number 2, at Kohat in the North-West Frontier Provice of India. He was eighteen at the time. In 1897, within the service of ten years, he rose to the rank of a Havildar. He fought in the battles of Chitral, Bannu, Tonk, Bijore and Mullah Paiwand and won several medas of galantry. He was a brave hunter and dead shot. His smartness could beat the lightning attacks of leopeardsand lions and similairly his courage ould tower above theirs. That was the reason that his English Commanding Officers used to take him with them when they used to go for tiger-hunting. One of his accomplishments of his bravery, made him a legend in the army. His regiment was transferred to Asam. One day, his English Commanding Officer took him with him for huntinga tiger. They reached the tick of the jungle to climb on a tree from which the tiger was to be shot at, down on the ground. The Englishman climed on the tree from which the tiger was to be shot at, down on the ground. The Englishmen climed on the tree when Bhai Kehar Singh was still on the ground, relaxed and unprepared for any attack. All of a sudden a tiger roared like thunder and ran towards Kehar SIngh. The Commanding Officer cried, "Well, Kehar Singh, jaldi ooper charh jao, nahin to sher tum ko mar dega" (Well, Kehar Singh climb on the tree immediately, otherwise the tiger shall kill you). The tiger was too close. Kehar Singh firmly caught hold of his spear and replied back to the officer who was pearching on the tree, " Sahib, ab mujhey sher rukh te nahin charan dega. Main Kehar hoon aur yeh sheer hai, donno ikko baat hia. Main hamesha sheron ko rukh te char ke marta hoon, aaj isey jamin par maroon ga" (Sir, now the tiger will not let me climb on the tree. I'am a Kehar, he is a sher, both are the sam. Always I have been killing the tigers climbing on the tree. Today, I will kill when I'am also on the ground)

This is where the story ends for today. If you like the story or have any suggestions, please do not hesitate to leave a comment, I would really really apperciate it, you may also contact me by leaving a comment.

DARBARRA SINGH: THE FLAME OF FAITH

As promised, i will now continue the story of Darbarra Singh. Thought you may be wondering where the blog is headed in the future. For this reason I have a small video that you can watch about where I would like to take this blog. I unfortunetly could not embedded the video into this post but the video can be viewed from the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdb2GuZ3mMI. Now continuing with our story. Now, in this post we will learn a little bit more about the backround surrounding Darbarra Singh and about him as well.

FLAME OF FAITH: THE CHILD MARTYR DARBARRA SINGH:

Faith is the soul of religion and action is its body. Without the union of the soul and the body, nothing can be accomplished in the world. The teaching imparted by parents to their children, has most lasting effect inlife, bacause the things seen, heard, taught and expierenced at impressionable age are most impressive. It happended in a very exemplary way in the case of te child-martyr Bhai Darbarra Singh. His interesting and inspiring life, thoght short in years, yet imoortal in history, cannot be properly apperciated without knowing some important aspects and facts of the life of his father, Havildar Kaher Singh. They embraced martyrdom together, travelling step by step from the begining to te end of the journey,spirtually being fired with the same flame of faith and physically ending in te same flame of fire which they were at Nankana Sahib, the birth-place of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith. I mean the respective life stories of the martyr-child sonand the martyr father, are end to end twined together like the two strings on a string. Bhai Kehar Singh was born in 1869 A.D. at the village of Jarg in the former Sikh state of Patalia. His father S.Jiwan Singh and his mother, Bibi Harman Kaur, were deeply devoted to their Sikh religion. Their fait was the root of the fruits called noble deeds, which they did to their fellow-beings in all possible ways. This is what they practically taught their three sons, Kehar Singh, Harman Singh and Sewa Singh. Bhai Kehar Singh grew up as a very strong and stout youngman, having handsome feauturesand fair complexion. His name means double lion; Kehar means lion and Singh also mans lion. He earned great fame as a wrestler and a weight lifter. Alongwith his physical strenght and beauty, he was widely admired for his noble chracter and life of a true Sikh-loving all, hating none, serving fellow-beings without any sort of discriminationand ever prepared for scrificing his life for his faith.

This is where I shall end the stroy for today. The reason you might be wondering, on as to why I bolded a certain part of the text. I did it to demonstrate what I have been saying all along that once something is taught at a young age it is learned forever. That is why we should encourage our children to go to the guardwara,the camp at the guardwara etc. It is amazing tha te youth from the community do not look up to people such as Darbarra Singh but people such as

THANK-YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS!

I'm humbly sorry about the great difference of time beteewn the first and second post, I feel that I owe an apology as well an explination. Due to the fact that I'm a student I had exams recently and was compleatly focused upon them, my apologies. I would also like to say sorry to Mai for not responding to her comment, thought I do check for comments, I think I have overlooked this one. The explination that I have provided about Operation Bluestar raises a question which Mai has adressed, if we want to discontinue calling Operation Bluestar due to it's intentional naming, what should we call it? I agree with Mai that we should call it Bluestar Massacre because that was what it basically was, not an operation as much as a massacre or a genecoide, manufactured and initiated by the government of the world's so called largest democracy. I believe that calling Operation Bluestar the Bluestar Massacre is a good idea for many reasons, due to the fact that people still know what it is referred to and it will help to spread the knowledge about Dr.Amarjeet Singh's theory. In the next post, I want to share a picture with my readers on as to what I meant about the importance of teaching the children of our future generations about our religion and what happended in 1984. Once you see it, I'm sure you will fully understand the significance of me sharing this story. In the next post I shall continue the story of the 9 year old martyr Darbarra Singh.