Bhagat Puran Singh — the saint of Pingalwara

Bhagat Puran Singh was born in 1904 and spent nearly ninety years doing the most unglamorous, invisible work imaginable — cleaning up after others, carrying the sick on his own back, collecting abandoned children from the streets. The organisation he built — Pingalwara, meaning “home for the crippled” — began with a single paralysed man he found abandoned on a pavement. He carried that man on his shoulders for years, begging for food to feed him. Guru Granth Sahib Ji was his guide, and sewa — selfless service — was his daily worship. He never sought fame or reward, only the chance to see Waheguru in the face of one more forgotten person.