Thursday, July 31, 2008

Travel, 20 July

It was a long day of travel today. We went to Paonta Sahib, on the West bank of the river Yamuna in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

It was here that the tenth guru, having been forced out of Anandpur by the Mughals, settled for some three years and patronized Sikh art and literature.

On the way back to Chandigarh, the car I was riding in had some excitement as a passing motorist scraped along the right side, tearing off the driver’s mirror and denting in the front panel. Were it not for the quick reaction of our driver, sliding to a stop and turning to the left, the oncoming driver would have clipped the front-right side of our car and either spun us off the road or worse.

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