My Malice and Bias

  Ammiji - My Grandmother Painting by Me Sardarni Surjit Kaur - My grandmother Maiden Name: Gian Kaur Early Childhood: Younger Gian Kaur - My Grandmother Gian Kaur was the eldest of the three siblings and daughter of Sardar Sohan Singh Kharbanda and Balwant Kaur . The Kharbanda family were an affluent wholesale merchant of brass ware from Daska (Shahmukhi: ڈسکا; Gurmukhi: ਡਸਕਾ) in the Sialkot District of West Punjab. The town of Daska gets its name because it is das ("ten") koh (Mughal unit of distance) from Sialkot, Gujranwala, and Wazirabad. Kharbanda's were trading brass ware to distant locations such as Delhi, Rajasthan, Afghanistan, and Iran. Sohan Singh was one of the four sons and assisted his father in the family business. He was married to Balwant Kau r from the Kukreja family of Lyallpur, West Punjab. The young couple had two children. Gian was the eldest and her brother Darshan was just two year old when their father Sohan Singh passed away after a short fev...

Chhabra (pronounced Chhabrha) Punjabi - ਛਾਬੜਾ, Hindi - छाबड़ा Gujarati - છાબડા Chhabras are a common demographic group found primarily in Punjab region. The Chhabras are considered a subset (Gotra: Sankrit, Got: Punjabi) of Punjabi Arora community. In fact Chhabras originating from Chhab, West Punjab are a distinct but related to the Aroras originating from Aror , Sindh. The ancestors of Chhabras were mainly concentrated in West Punjab (now Pakistan) along the banks of the Indus River and its tributaries; in the Majha region in East Punjab (India), and the North-West Frontier Province; and in Sindh (mainly as Sindhi Aroras) In post-independence and post-partition India, Aroras and Chhabra mainly reside in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Gujarat. Map of Indus Valley Civilization Sites Demography Almost all Chhabras are either Sikhs or Hindus. There are some Muslim Chhabras who live in West Punjab, Pakistan or in We...