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Takht Sri Damdama Sahib at Talwandi Sabo is one of the five Takhts of Sikhism, the place where Guru Gobind Singh prepared the definitive recension of the Guru…
Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib rises in white marble over the site of Sikhism's most heart-rending sacrifice — where in 1704 the two youngest sons of Guru Gobind…
The largest wetland in northern India is a man-made one. The Harike Barrage sits just below the point where the Beas meets the Sutlej, and the water held…
The crossing into Pakistan here is closed, but both armies still hold a joint beating retreat every day, and that is what draws most people to this village on…
Chhatbir, as everyone actually calls it, lies 20 km from Chandigarh on the Zirakpur-Patiala route, and it is the largest zoo in Punjab: 369 mammals, 400 birds…
A trading town that drew shoppers from both Amritsar and Lahore is now a tiny village 35 km down the old Amritsar-Lahore road, and the compression of that…
Qila Mubarak at Bathinda is counted among the oldest surviving forts in India, its enormous weathered brick bastions rising from foundations associated with…
Punjab's largest hydroelectric dam, also called the Thein Dam, holds back the Ravi 30 km from Pathankot and exactly the same distance from Kathua, because the…
Be honest with yourself before driving out here: the tourism that once existed is gone.
Nobody comes here to sightsee. Tharial is a farming village of around 10,000 on the Pathankot-Jammu road, the last one before Punjab ends, and it is known…
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