The Early Life of Punjab
O nce a flourished household, today's Punjab holds loneliness and grief in its village alleys. Gone are the days when small kids used to run pointless here and there in these lanes, often hitting an elderly person on their way. Now, we do not see the young chaps going to the fields very early morning to address water into their cultivations. A faded beam of light guides your way in these barren walkways. It seems like a curse in which everyone just vanished in thin air. No sound of children studying in the street schools, no smell of cow dung, no enquiring eyes following you from a distance, absolutely nothing at all. T he Punjab today is almost vacated by its inhabitants as these birds found other lands to exist and flourish. Blame the development or the corruption or the Government, now no one wishes to stay in this once a princely state of India. Two decades have gone by seeing people board planes to foreign countries, leaving their flocks and fields as it is. A silent a