1894

A FADING silk scarf wrapped around the forehead, dirty shirt sleeves pulled down and his stained teeth protruding in an awkward smile. Devender is a recognisable face in this lower class residential area in Delhi's stinking eastern fringe. In the bylanes...

Teja singh professor (1894 - 1958), teacher, scholar and translator of the Sikh sacred texts, was born Tej Ram on 2 june 1894 at the village of Adiala in Rawalpindi district, now in Pakistan. His father's name was Bhalakar Singh. At the age of three, Tej ram was sent to Gurdwara to learn and to...