Maastarji · Crossword № 8

Bhagat Puran Singh & Pingalwara

17 × 12 · 7 across · 6 down · medium · Ages 10-14
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  1. 1 The Government of India honour that he returned in 1984 to protest the attack on Sri Darbar Sahib — two words.
  2. 3 The region in Punjab where Bhagat Puran Singh was born in the early 1900s, raised by his mother after his father's early death.
  3. 6 Bhagat Puran Singh described Piara as 'like a ___ around my neck' — also the title of his best-known biography.
  4. 10 The charitable home for the abandoned and disabled that he built in Amritsar, now with branches across India and the world.
  5. 11 The honorary title given to Puran Singh by the Sikh community, reflecting the deep reverence they held for his life of service.
  6. 12 The Sikh community whose small coin donations outside Sri Darbar Sahib sustained Pingalwara in its early years.
  7. 13 The city where Bhagat Puran Singh first served at a Gurdwara, and where he found an abandoned child on a doorstep in 1934.

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  1. 2 The city where Bhagat Puran Singh settled after Partition in 1947, collecting small donations outside Sri Darbar Sahib to build his home for the forgotten.
  2. 4 The place that became his university — offering food, warmth, and dignity when poverty cut short his formal schooling.
  3. 5 The community kitchen where Bhagat Puran Singh served food during his early seva at the Gurdwara in Lahore.
  4. 7 One of the severe conditions suffered by patients at Pingalwara — people rejected by society and their own families.
  5. 8 The disabled child left at a Gurdwara doorstep in 1934 whom Bhagat Puran Singh carried on his back for fourteen years.
  6. 9 The 1947 division of Punjab that brought Bhagat Puran Singh — with Piara still on his back — from Lahore to Amritsar.