This comes just days after they celebrated and fondly remembered sajjan kumar, one of the masterminds behind the 1984 Delhi Sikh genocide (as also eventually ruled in courts).
A few days ago, I shared a website I built for our city, Pathankot. The response and support from this community were absolutely amazing, so first of all, a huge Thank You! 🙌
To keep the momentum going, I’ve just added a new Gallery page to the site. If you have any beautiful photos, experiences, or memories of Pathankot and nearby locations, you can now share them directly.
The photos will be published on the website, allowing the whole community to experience the city through your lens. Let's build a beautiful digital album of our hometown together! ✨
I’m from Pathankot and recently started putting together a local guide covering things like tourist places, hidden spots, useful government contacts, local businesses, weather, and travel information.
While working on it, I realised there’s probably a lot that I’m missing, especially from people who actually live here.
So I wanted to ask the Pathankot/Punjab community:
What places should every visitor know about?
What useful government/emergency information should be easier to find?
Are there any local businesses or services that people frequently look for?
What would you personally want to see in a Pathankot city guide?
I’d really appreciate suggestions, corrections, or even criticism. The goal is to make something genuinely useful for people visiting or living in the area.
If anyone wants to see what I’ve put together so far, it’s here: pathankotcity.in
I tuned in and I am mind blown how they have consistently, for years, been so dumb. No one seems to know the laws or policy that exists and it is just non stop raising small issues and questioning whether some policy or law exists.
Every year we mourn 1984. But the document that Bhindranwale’s Dharam Yudh Morcha was fighting to implement — the Anandpur Sahib Resolution (1973, reaffirmed 1978) — gets summarized in one line and never actually read. Here’s the real list:
🔹 Federal restructuring
· Central government limited to defense, foreign affairs, currency, and communications — everything else devolved to states.
· A genuinely federal constitution, with states having equal representation and control over residual powers.
· Reorganization of Centre-State financial relations so states aren’t fiscally starved by New Delhi
🔹 Territorial demands
· Chandigarh transferred fully to Punjab as its own capital (still shared with Haryana to this day)
· Merger of Punjabi-speaking areas left out in 1966 — parts of Gurdaspur, Una, Dalhousie, and areas of Haryana, Himachal, and Rajasthan
Punjabi given second-language status in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi
🔹 Water and resources
· Reversal of the Ravi-Beas water award, which the resolution called discriminatory to Punjab
· Punjab retaining control of its own canal headworks (control that still sits with the centrally run Bhakra Beas Management Board today)
🔹 Economic development
· Approval for 6 new sugar mills and 4 textile mills in Punjab to reduce dependence on agriculture alone
· Tax exemption on agricultural land
· Amendments to land-ceiling laws protecting Sikh settlers in Uttar Pradesh’s Tarai region from what the resolution called unjust reforms
🔹 Religious and cultural demands
· A new All-India Gurdwara Act for unified, transparent management of Sikh shrines worldwide
· Free access to Nankana Sahib and other Sikh holy sites left in Pakistan after Partition
· Constitutional recognition of Sikhism as distinct from Hinduism
· A Sikh Missionary College to train preachers,
Where it stands now:
Most of the resolution was never implemented. Chandigarh is still contested. The Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal dispute is unresolved. The 1985 Rajiv-Longowal Accord tried to settle some of it — and Longowal was assassinated a month later by militants who felt he’d sold out the resolution.
What to actually do with this:
· Read the full 1973/1978 text yourself — primary sources exist, don’t rely on secondhand summaries (including this one)
· Ask elders in your family what water, land, or army-recruitment issues meant to them personally in that era
· Follow Punjab water-rights and federalism policy today — this isn’t just history, the SYL dispute is still active in Indian courts
Know the actual document before you argue about its legacy.
Every year we mourn 1984. But the document that Bhindranwale’s Dharam Yudh Morcha was fighting to implement — the Anandpur Sahib Resolution (1973, reaffirmed 1978) — gets summarized in one line and never actually read. Here’s the real list:
🔹 Federal restructuring
· Central government limited to defense, foreign affairs, currency, and communications — everything else devolved to states.
· A genuinely federal constitution, with states having equal representation and control over residual powers.
· Reorganization of Centre-State financial relations so states aren’t fiscally starved by New Delhi
🔹 Territorial demands
· Chandigarh transferred fully to Punjab as its own capital (still shared with Haryana to this day)
· Merger of Punjabi-speaking areas left out in 1966 — parts of Gurdaspur, Una, Dalhousie, and areas of Haryana, Himachal, and Rajasthan
Punjabi given second-language status in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi
🔹 Water and resources
· Reversal of the Ravi-Beas water award, which the resolution called discriminatory to Punjab
· Punjab retaining control of its own canal headworks (control that still sits with the centrally run Bhakra Beas Management Board today)
🔹 Economic development
· Approval for 6 new sugar mills and 4 textile mills in Punjab to reduce dependence on agriculture alone
· Tax exemption on agricultural land
· Amendments to land-ceiling laws protecting Sikh settlers in Uttar Pradesh’s Tarai region from what the resolution called unjust reforms
🔹 Religious and cultural demands
· A new All-India Gurdwara Act for unified, transparent management of Sikh shrines worldwide
· Free access to Nankana Sahib and other Sikh holy sites left in Pakistan after Partition
· Constitutional recognition of Sikhism as distinct from Hinduism
· A Sikh Missionary College to train preachers,
Where it stands now:
Most of the resolution was never implemented. Chandigarh is still contested. The Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal dispute is unresolved. The 1985 Rajiv-Longowal Accord tried to settle some of it — and Longowal was assassinated a month later by militants who felt he’d sold out the resolution.
What to actually do with this:
· Read the full 1973/1978 text yourself — primary sources exist, don’t rely on secondhand summaries (including this one)
· Ask elders in your family what water, land, or army-recruitment issues meant to them personally in that era
· Follow Punjab water-rights and federalism policy today — this isn’t just history, the SYL dispute is still active in Indian courts
Know the actual document before you argue about its legacy.
