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Book Review: The Sikh Heritage: Beyond Borders by Dalvir Pannu

My Connection Dalvir Pannu is a friend and a well known dentist who runs multi-specialty dental practices in San Jose, Fremont, Cupertino, and Dublin, California. I have something in common with Dalvir, both of our families came from West Punjab and migrated to East Punjab in India after the partition of British India into Republic of India and Islamic Republic of Pakistan.  Dalvir mailed me a hard copy of his book to review. It took me a long time to accomplish this task but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had some time that I could dedicate to reading his book. Like many generations of Sikhs growing up in India, our ancestral home is now in a foreign country and we have lost connection with our ancestral heritage. Dalvir's Dad and Grandmother with His book Background The emergence of these two nations is built upon an unprecedented ethnic cleansing and mass genocide.  At the time of partition, around 10 million Sikhs and Hindus were living in West Punja