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,
Crossing the inner German border Road crossing (East/West checkpoints, from north to south) Railway crossing Water crossing The largest crossing point or "Grenzübergangsstelle" (GÜSt) between East and West Germany was at Marienborn on the Hanover–Berlin autobahn. It was originally a set of simple huts straddling the border, where British and Soviet military police checked travellers between the eastern and western zones. In 1971–72 the East German government expanded it into a complex through which 34.6 million travellers passed between 1985–89. The British, French and Americans worked alongside the West German "Bundesgrenzschutz" and Customs to maintain a corresponding checkpoint near Helmstedt. Codenamed Checkpoint Alpha, this was