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,
Grand Portage–Pigeon River Border Crossing grew around the border crossing. The Minnesota town was known as Sextus City, and the Ontario town was called Pigeon River. Hotels, gas stations and other businesses developed around the crossing. Today the remnants make up ghost towns on both sides of the border Plans to move the crossing to a new bridge with a more direct route between Duluth and Port Arthur (Now Thunder Bay) began as early as 1935, but efforts of the Minnesota government to acquire the necessary land for the roadway from the US government, which held it on behalf of the Chippewa tribe, proved challenging