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Nanak Singh's sacrifice recalled
WSN Network
 PATIALA: Sri Guru
Tegh Bahadur National Integration Chair based at Punjabi University
organised the First Shaheed Nanak Singh Memorial Lecture last month
at the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hall of the University.
While delivering the first ‘Shaheed Nanak Singh Memorial
Lecture’, Dr HK Manmohan Singh, emeritus professor and former
Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University, said “When established
cultures and civilizations undergo a radical change, they generate
debris of conflicts, tensions and problems that can be grasped and
overcome only with the help of the teachings of great spiritual
masters.”
Dr. Singh said all these values were upheld by Sardar
Nanak Singh, who made a phenomenal sacrifice to promote religious
tolerance and human freedom, even as he was done to death in the
pre-partition carnage while trying to save some students of a
school, who had organised a peace march against the division of the
country. A science and a law graduate, Nanak Singh could have
continued his career with the British police, but his upbringing as
a devout made him revolt against his submission to the wrongs being
perpetrated, first by the rulers and then by the fundamentalists who
wanted to divide the country on the basis of religion.
In his presidential address, Vice-Chancellor Dr Jaspal Singh
said that concepts of a pluralistic and multi-ethnic society were
essential features of Sikh religion for which Sardar Nanak Singh
stood for as an ideologue. The Vice-Chancellor presented mementoes
to the family members of Sardar Nanak Singh as a token of respect.
Dr Manjit Singh,
Dean Colleges of
the University, while describing Sardar Nanak Singh as a great
visionary, said such sacrifices acted as source of inspiration for
others to be emulated.
21 January 2009
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