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I have watched some of the clips from his movies and I can say this bastard should have died the day he was born, I am not saying this out of any bigotry and religious hatred, but having seen the agenda in his films, i am all for it.
So he has a movie, the name of the movie is Gabbar Singh, where he is a Sikh bandit and he loot the people and he is referred as a Sikhda(ਸਿਖੜਾ) and eventually he meets an old women, who hates him and she was back from umrah and she had brought zamzam(pious water) with her and he drinks it and a change comes over him, then that old lady explains, that it the water which gives power to Ghaznavi to destroy somnath(same story of glorifying invaders) and somehow he ( sultan rahi) changes his heart to become a Muslim and he cuts his kesh with his own kirpan and recite kalma. Guess, what his Sikhs companions does the same and his Hindu companions leaves him and kills Muslims and eventually gets killed and even Hindus were demonised by calling butparast.
In an another movie, Jarnail Singh1987, he plays the role of a Sikh police officer in the time of British where he is ordered to destroy a mosque to pave the way for a project, he goes to that village and Muslims curse him by saying na-pak, then same things happens Sikhs are demonised and he eventually becomes a Muslim.
These films are filled with unconditional hatred for Sikhs and yet I see our people praising him as a great actor. For god’s sake! He couldn’t even act, he always looked constipated.
Nothing against Muslims, but I wanted to say thing for so long.

Source: The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama | The 14th Dalai Lama

Took a trip to my relatives' village just outside Lahore, and it’s crazy how much the vibe has shifted.

A few years back, this place was all kacha houses, quiet dirt paths, and absolute peace. Now, the urban sprawl has swallowed it up. The rustic scenery has been entirely replaced by concrete blocks, constant engine noises, and paved roads.

I'm definitely glad the people living here have better facilities and an easier lifestyle now, but it's bittersweet. It honestly feels like the true essence of the pind has been lost to generic construction.

Well according to all research i did on the internet, there's only one Ethanol free pure petrol pump in Punjab which provide xp/power 100 and they are:

Jalandhar

1. AMRIT SERVICE CENTRE BHARAT PETROLEUM DEALERS

Adress Urban Estate Phase I, near Water Works · Jalandhar

Phone number 98727 61540

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2. SHAMSHER SINGH SEHGAL & SONS BHARAT PETROLEUM DEALERS

Adress Near B.M.C.CHOWK, Bus Stand, G.T.ROAD · Jalandhar

Phone number 97808 01565

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3. UNITED SERVICE STATION BHARAT PETROLEUM DEALERS

Adress Near Gurunanak Mission Hospital, Lajpat Nagar

Phone number 98141 33234

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Amritsar

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Phone number +91 85339 27336

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5. MELA RAM & SONS, A/C G.T. ROAD BHARAT PETROLEUM DEALERS

Adress GT road, Amritsar

Phone number 98888 84698

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Ludhiana

6. BALJEET SINGH & CO. BHARAT PETROLEUM DEALERS

Adress Aggar Naggar, Ferozpur Road, Agar Nagar · Ludhiana

Phone number 98140 81999

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7. SHRI SALASAR POWER POINT BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION L

Adress Link Road, Oppisite Transport Nagar, near Aman House · Ludhiana

Phone number 99145 20873

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Mohali

8. COCO 56 SUKHMEET SINGH SERVICE PROV

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Adress Aerocity Road, Block F

Phone number +91 98764 00665

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10. HIGHWAY SERVICES BHARAT PETROLEUM DEALERS

Adress G.T. Road, Patiala, Shambhu

Phone number 98152 28855

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Writing his account on March 1st, 1781 (around 73 years after the joti jot of the 10th master in 1708), a British man named Sir Charles Wilkins had paid a visit to Takht Sri Patna Sahib Ji (birthplace of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and one of the Panj Takhts of Sikhi) in Patna, India. He wrote one of the earliest English-language first-hand accounts on the Sikhs and their religion. Reading his account is absolutely fascinating – I had only read transcribed portions of certain excerpts in previous works, such as in Ganda Singh's Early European Accounts of the Sikhs (1962) and Sicques, Tigers or Thieves: Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (2016) by Amandeep Singh Madra and Parmjit Singh. However, I was not satisfied with these transcripts of select passages and wanted to read the entire, original document in Charles Wilkin's words. Thus, I dug into the 'Asiatic Researches' periodical to find it and struck luck as I was able to locate the entire work. I am now sharing the original document publicly here.

The account starts-out with their being a clear distinction made between Sikhs and Hindus & Muslims, which counter-acts common claims that Sikhs only became a distinct religious identity later during the reformist Singh Sabha movement of the late 19th century. The Sikhs warmly welcomed the foreign observer into their abode. He describes the Sikhs as "intelligent" and them placing the Sri Guru Granth Sahib in prakash, with gurbani being recited and a congregational ardaas being performed, including the exclamation of Waheguru! Then, parshad is distributed to the attendees. What is striking is a possible reference to the Sri Dasam Granth and an explanation of the Amrit Sanchar initiation ceremony. The amusing thing is that the Sikhs of Patna invited Wilkins to become a Khalsa via the Amrit ceremony but he politely turned them down! So much for the silly claim that Sikhs were and should be "non-proselytizing", historical Sikhs were willing to invite a random, white man into the religion even back then. They even were open to Wilkins having copies of both the Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Sri Dasam Granth Sahib to transcribe/translate them.

Note: The character that looks like an "f" is actually ſ, which is an old-way to write "s" in English orthography, just read it as "s".

Further reading: Singh, Ganda (26 November 2018). "Seeks and Their College at Patna by Sir Charles Wilkins – Review by Dr Ganda Singh". patshahi10. Retrieved 23 March 2026.

Images:

1. Sir Charles Wilkins (1749 – 1836). John Sartain, John Sartain (1808-1897), Engraver. Published by Moon, Boys & Graves (active 1829-1834), Publishers. After James Godsell Middleton (circa 1805-1874), Painter. Mezzotint, published 1 January 1830.

2. The Takht Sri Harmandir Patna Sahib. Inscribed: ‘N2 Gunga Govind Sing’s Temple at the confluence of the Baugrutty and Jalangi Rivers. Augt 1820.’ WD4404, f.2

3. The Chowk, and the main street of Patna, 1814-15.

Original source: 'The Seeks and their College at Patna' (1781) by Charles Wilkins [The Sikhs and their College at Patna]. Asiatic Researches: Or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Enquiry Into the History and Antiquities, the Arts and Sciences, and Literature of Asia (Calcutta, India: Asiatick Society, Vol. I, 1788, pp. 288–294)

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We can peer at a lot of now long-gone bungas and other, forgotten structures, such as the Gothic clock-tower that was controversially built by the British colonizers between 1862–74 after destroying a former palace of the Sikh Empire (the former palace was later known as the Kotwali due to the Brits using it as a jail/prison in their early colonial administration of Panjab). The clock-tower was demolished shortly before or after Indian independence (c. 1945–47) as Sikhs always detested it and considered it an eyesore and symbol of colonial-power. We can also the Jhanda Bunga, with the twin Nishan Sahib standards that had been erected by the Udasis Santokh Das and Pritam Das in the late-18th century.

I sourced these photographs from the University of Milwaukee's AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East. They were all taken by Frederick Gardner Clapp on 16 January 1938 (a portrait of him is included).