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Bhagat Puran Singh: Pingalwara of Amritsar
A boy raised by a hardworking mother became one of Punjab's greatest servants. Solve the crossword on Bhagat Puran Singh and the Pingalwara of Amritsar.
Across
- 1The Government of India honour that he returned in 1984 to protest the attack on Sri Darbar Sahib — two words.
- 3The region in Punjab where Bhagat Puran Singh was born in the early 1900s, raised by his mother after his father's early death.
- 6Bhagat Puran Singh described Piara as 'like a ___ around my neck' — also the title of his best-known biography.
- 10The charitable home for the abandoned and disabled that he built in Amritsar, now with branches across India and the world.
- 11The honorary title given to Puran Singh by the Sikh community, reflecting the deep reverence they held for his life of service.
- 12The Sikh community whose small coin donations outside Sri Darbar Sahib sustained Pingalwara in its early years.
- 13The city where Bhagat Puran Singh first served at a Gurdwara, and where he found an abandoned child on a doorstep in 1934.
Down
- 2The city where Bhagat Puran Singh settled after Partition in 1947, collecting small donations outside Sri Darbar Sahib to build his home for the forgotten.
- 4The place that became his university — offering food, warmth, and dignity when poverty cut short his formal schooling.
- 5The community kitchen where Bhagat Puran Singh served food during his early seva at the Gurdwara in Lahore.
- 7One of the severe conditions suffered by patients at Pingalwara — people rejected by society and their own families.
- 8The disabled child left at a Gurdwara doorstep in 1934 whom Bhagat Puran Singh carried on his back for fourteen years.
- 9The 1947 division of Punjab that brought Bhagat Puran Singh — with Piara still on his back — from Lahore to Amritsar.
What you'll learn
- The life of Bhagat Puran Singh, one of Panjab's greatest servants
- The founding of Pingalwara in Amritsar
- How seva (selfless service) shapes Sikh life