Thursday, July 2, 2009

Inaugural Ceremony 2001

Inaugural Ceremony of Punjabi Khog Garh

We request that this humble submission be given special attention.



It is an established fact that nations are prone to vanish from history who do not intend to save preserve their art literature and heritage. It is said that Punjabis do make history but do not write it.



With the passage of time this fact has been proved beyond any doubt that Punjabis have contributed history a lot and never ever tried to write it down.



That is why pages of history and Punjabi art have been scattered all over the world.



Museums and libraries of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, England, Canada and America provide enough evident proves. To consolidate our history no collective major effort has ever been made. Political, financial constraints and long uncomfortable journey hindered this enterprise. It is due to such reasons that Punjabi researchers could not accomplish this task. On national level we had to face great loss of our cultural asset in 1947. Second disaster took place in 1984 when reference library at Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar was plundered and burnt into ashes. In this connection the prevailing situation of Pakistan is well narrated in an article of Daily Down hereby attached with.



Guru Nanak Dev ji did include piece of BAANI written by his senior and contemporary Sants and Sufis in Guru Garanth Sahib.



But we could not carry on this great traditions. After having gone through existing state of affairs in Pakistan alongwith my observations during my visit to America and Canada. I did formulate an opinion and shared it with North American Punjabis.



There are five countries having large part of Punjabi population. Pakistan is at the top, India, Canada, England and America follow.



It is incumbent on us to set up reference libraries in all these five countries with full co ordination with one another.



Matter of every kind and in any language about Punjab should be included in such libraries.



In a meeting of Qalman Da Kafla at Toronto I submitted the same idea and participants agreed and accepted it. Dr. Jaswant Singh Esq. and Dr. Satnam Singh Bhogra Esq, gave me full support and encouragement.



To being with I acquired a piece of land worth 1.6 million rupees. Income from my tour partially financed the Punjabi Khoj Garh Land and remaining amount came from my savings.



The institute will include a reference library (books, microfilms, C.ds audio and visual aids) an auditorium (thousand seats) Punjabi Art Gallery and Museum.



Its foundation stone laying ceremony will take place on 10th of March, 2001 and more than one thousand Punjabi writers, poets artists researcher scholars will participate.



Its estimated cost is hundred million rupees equal to two million US dollars. I have acquired Punjabi Khoj Garh Land (6.5 acres) worth 1.6 million rupees and the project is on firm ground.



As we are penniless now, we appeal to Punjabis of the world to join us for the accomplishment of first ever Punjabi Khoj Garh.



Are you in consonance with our submission, if so, then we request you to acknowledge us and disseminate it.

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