The Train Has Reached Amritsar The Train Has Reached Amritsar The Train Has Reached Amritsar (Hindi original: "Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai") is a short story by Hindi author and playwright, Bhisham Sahni set during the Partition of India. In the story a group of refugees are travelling from what has now become Pakistan towards Amritsar, the first border town in India, and the horrors and destruction they witness on the journey. Sahni also wrote his epic novel "Tamas" (Darkness, 1974) around partition, which was later adapted to a television film, by Govind Nihalani. An English translation by Ashok Bhalla, was also part of the anthology,
Khalsa College, Amritsar Khalsa College, Amritsar Khalsa College ( "khālsā kālaj") is a historic educational institution in the northern Indian city of Amritsar in the state of Punjab, India. Founded in 1892, the sprawling campus is located about eight kilometers from the city-center on the Amritsar-Lahore highway (part of the Grand Trunk Road), adjoining Guru Nanak Dev University campus, to which Khalsa College is academically affiliated. Khalsa College was built as an educational institute during the British Raj in India when Sikh scholars thought about providing higher education to Sikhs and Punjabis within Punjab. Amritsar was chosen for its establishment and Singh Sabha