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Here, childless couples offer liquor to seek blessings
Minister to engage experts in framing state’s cultural policy
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Six booked for assault
Youth kills self
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Here, childless couples offer liquor to seek blessings
Bhoma Wadala (Fatehgarh Churian), March 25 This non-descript township on the Fatehgarh Churian-Majhita road remains quiet throughout the year except for three days when the hamlet throbs with life on the occasion of Baba Rode Shah mela. Saturday was the last day of this popular fair and besides childless couple, there were others, including NRIs, who paid obeisance at the shrine to get their wishes fulfilled. Sikandar Kaur (31), who had come from a village 90 km away from the shrine, said she had come to thank the baba as she was able to conceive after six years of her marriage”. “I have been paying obeisance here for the past five years. The tomb indeed has supernatural powers,” she said. If scores of poor people descended at the venue, so did affluent NRIs. “I have come from New York. My wish of owing a parking lot near Manhattan has been fulfilled,” said Sukhdarshan Singh, who had brought a carton of Scotch whisky as an offering. Principal SS Randhawa, a regular at the mela, disclosed, “This is the only shrine in the country where liquor is offered and later distributed among devotees who get to enjoy some of the choicest delicacies like tandoori chicken, Amritsari fish and mutton tikka at stalls dotting the road. Here, people who believe in logic and rationality are often proved wrong”. What history says
It is believed that Baba Rode Shah, who hailed from Dhiman village in Gurdaspur, moved to Bhoma village in 1896 where his sister was married. He underwent austere penance following which he was endowed with mystical powers and started helping people. Once, with his blessings, a child was born to a couple, who brought a bottle of liquor for the baba to express their gratitude. Baba distributed the liquor among his followers. Some others believe that Baba Rode Shah gave shelter to Sundar Singh, a bootlegger, during the British regime. Miraculously, the police failed to trace Sundar despite making all-out efforts. Happy with the way the Baba treated him, Sundar Singh offered a liquor bottle to him who, in turn, distributed it among his devotees. |
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Minister to engage experts in framing state’s cultural policy
Nawanshahr, March 25 Phillaur said this while addressing mediapersons during Bhagat Singh’s martyrdom day function at Khatkar Kalan here on Friday. Having gone through the news article on the issue in The Tribune today, he said he was planning to hold a meeting on similar lines. The minister said the idea was also being floated so as to promote the Punjabi folk culture through fairs on the pattern on Pushkar Mela in Rajasthan. The minister said he had clearly spelt out to the principal secretary and director that none of the tourism spots in the state be privatised as had been done in the previous tenure. “We would rather want to widen the scope of tourism in the state. I tried to develop some tourism spots near Ladhowal, but that somehow did not get a good response.” |
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Youth kills self
Pathankot: A 23-year-old man of Sujanpur town committed suicide last evening. Ram Lal, the father of the deceased said the boy loved a girl but her family harassed him repeatedly, following which he consumed poison.
The SSP SK Kalia said today that a case of abetment of suicide under Section 306 of the IPC has been registered against Darshna Devi, the mother of the girl. Ram Lal said his son, Ajay Kumar, was under depression for many days. Darshana Devi also complained to the police against his son that made him uncomfortable, the father alleged.
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For childless couple, the shrine of Baba Rode Shah assumes great significance. Every year, hundreds of them, seeking divine intervention, pay obeisance at the dargah by offering liquor.
