My Beautiful Village Badbar

My Village Badbar Home    Winter Time - Wheat Time  My name is Preetmohan Singh. This is my village, this is your village, and this is our village Badbar. A village we all are proud of. This is the most beautiful village in the world, 'cause all-walk-of-life guys inhabitate this. They love to stay and enjoy the picturesque unexploited views at all times of the year. It has a treasure of countryside beauty which sparkles with its spectacular environment. The healthy and cool breeze is readymade freshener. My older Aunt would love to travel all the way from Metropolitan city like New Delhi just to get the very taste of awful water for drinking her never ending thirst. She often bet this water over Coca Cola. And all the children around will laugh majestically, knowing fully well that she was trying to save money. No matter where you are in any part of the world, you get attracted to come back again and again. This is what I do too. I live in San Francisco California and visit my Village Badbar once every year. The visit is religiously solemnized by all members of my family which includes my wife Harvinder, our son Shivpreet Singh, his wife Dashminder and their son Gobind - the newest member of our Badbar Family. Misty Morning In The Wheat Fields The village Badbar sits on Sangrur - Barnala Highway. My late father Sardar Vasdev Singh and his brother late Sardar Inderjit Singh Advocate Punjab And Haryana Highcourt were allotted about 100 Acres of aggricultural land as a compensation to our land left behind in the District of Muzzafarnagar, Multan and loyallpur, now a part of Pakistan. The other cousins of my Father were also allotted 700 Acres in this village. They are known as Multani Landlords. These people were also allotted homes in the Village in the 'Gaggapatti' parcel of land. The Technical Support  Familiar FACES in Badbar  Sardar Anandbir Singh Sardar Pritam Singh    Author With  Friend  and Cousin  Sardar Pritam Singh    Aarhti Lala Gopal Dass Sardar Brijbir Singh    A Young Khalsa  At The Tube-Well    With cousin and friend Sardar Anandbir Singh   Badbar Youth  Sardar Shivpreet Singh with Son Gobind Singh  Sardar Gobind Singh Getting Ready For Work Sardar Gobind Singh Knows The Badbar Tradition Of Working Hard   With Grand Son Gobind Singh We are the descendents of Bhai Nand Lal 'Goya' the poet laurette in the court of Guru Gobind Singh. Bhai Nand Lal came down to Multan from Ghazni Afghanistan at a young age. Multan was one of the biggest trade and business centers in the North of India. Due to geographical reasons, Multan developed itself to be a major trade disbursing center.  All the goods from West Asia will pass through the Great Himalayan Passes and get collected at this place. From here the goods will be further distributed to various parts of the country. Bhai Nand Lal liked this place. Multan was not only a mojor business center, but a very pious and religious place. It had the reputation of giving birth to top Hindu and Muslim Scholars of all times. Baba Farid and Bhagat Prahlad developed this part of the land with their utmost religious devotion in their field of adopted religious practices with modern scientific theories. This is the place where the Punjabi language was born  here and  the first written records of Punjabi are found. As the city of Multan was a walled city and had gates towards major cities of the country. Bhai Nand Lal purchased a parcel of land outside Delhi gate and constructed a house for himself. Slowly others Hindu Khashtries also started to live in this area. His two servants from Ghazni would call him 'Aaka' meaning Malik (Lord), the place came to be known as 'Agha Pura'. This is the place where he and his family continued to live for generations. Incidentally the Author was also born at the same place. All of this changed as the partition of the country took place in Aug 1947, and all of his family members settled in places like Amritsar, Patiala, Chandigarh, and New Delhi.  They have also settled in Canada and USA.