Punjab memories.........

Punjab soil is very fertile with high agricultural productivity due to the alluvial plains and extensive irrigation facilities. 

Sutlej river...

A glimpse at this dark, nutrient rich, well-ploughed fields and you can gauge why it yields bumper crops.

It is a field in Phagwara, near the historic Grand Trunk Road..

I used to work in  a popular University there...and often visited these fields..it was harvest time in late October...

The corns were growing...

Mustards had started to bloom, but not in their peak yet...

It was peak harvest season. The farmers were busy cutting  and threshing the crops. They were kind enough to allow us to sit on the bales, pose on the tractors and hold the crops. Though we had our own field in the village and i had seen the whole process of seeds being sown to harvested, year after year, staying away almost a decade for higher study had blurred the memories. It was refreshing to relive the past.

The farmers were busy threshing the paddy crop...

The sugarcane were ready for harvesting..the farmer was kind enough to allow us cut few stems and relish..

Enjoying the fruit of labour...

Puppet show..once, it used to be a popular form of entertainment...now its on the verge of extinction....

I saw this art while visiting Haveli in Jalandhar...the iconic food and culture haven..

I had got this opportunity to visit Amritsar, the historical border city...........

Here, at the world famous shrine Golden Temple.......

The Gurudwara....

Then I visited Jaliwanawala Bagh...the massacre site of  congregated freedom fighters..

The well, where many victims had jumped in order to escape the firing still stands there..

The building walls are perforated with bullets... 

Met these kids from near-by school...

Lovely Professional University...where I started my job life..as an Assistant Professor.. having a Popsicle on my way back from duty....