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‘Turban Traveller’ returns to city from Kartarpur gurdwara

AMRITSAR: Amarjit Singh Chawla earned the nickname “Turban Traveller” after travelling over 36,000 km in 131 days by road from Delhi to London.

‘Turban Traveller’ returns to city from Kartarpur gurdwara

Amarjit Singh Chawla, along with his wife Gursharan Kaur, after returning from Pakistan in Amritsar on Sunday. Tribune photo



Neeraj Bagga

Tribune News Service 

Amritsar, November 10

Amarjit Singh Chawla, who is on a pilgrimage to those towns and countries where Guru Nanak Dev had once visited, on Sunday returned to the holy city after visiting historic Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan. 

After paying obeisance at the historic gurdwara in Kartarpur, the ‘Turban Traveller’ returned from the Attari-Wagah Joint Check-post on Sunday. He had taken special permission from Pakistan to visit historic Sikh shrines in his same car. 

With this, he completed the first leg of his about 50,000-mile pilgrimage route, which the founder of the Sikhism had undertaken over five centuries ago. 

In the first leg of pilgrimage, he covered 33,000 km in his car. He said, “The Guru sahib had visited 27 Indian states. Tracing footsteps of the Baba Ji, I have covered 22 states and travelled to countries like Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal.” 

Amarjit said the next and final leg of his journey would commence from March 2020 under which he would visit Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Mecca, Madina, China and Russia. 

“The objective of the pilgrimage is to spread the message and philosophy of Guru Nanak Dev ji," he said.  He earned the nickname "Turban Traveller” after travelling over 36,000 km in 131 days by road from Delhi to London. The 61-year-old Dehli-based garment exporter had already passed over the baton of the family business to his son and daughter. He is joined in his mission by his wife Gursharan Kaur, a homemaker.

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