Many of them converted to Christianity at the time of Partition so that they could stay on in their ancestral homes without risking persecution. This is one of the two functional Hindu temples in Lahore, where Valmikis gather to mark religious occasions. “Both Valmikis and Muslims were regarded as untouchables.” “The Hindus wouldn’t let us have water from this well,” Shams Gill, an 80-year-old born into the Valmiki Hindu caste told me a few years ago, when I was interviewing him at the Valmiki temple a few streets from here. The structure under the turret – once a well – has been long lost, occupied by traders after Partition with a vengeance, to remove all traces of Hindus from the city. A vendor looks at me suspiciously as I photograph the turret behind his shop. This is one of the several monuments in this area, an essential part of this historical market of Lahore – Anarkali Bazaar. Hundreds of visitors glance at the children’s clothes hanging at the shops here, oblivious to the turret behind. Its thick bricks are proof it was constructed during the colonial era. The turret rises amid lines of shops selling clothes. Nashik police commissioner transferred after banning bhajans around azaan time.Russian troops to block Mariupol steel plant – last holdout of Ukrainian forces in the city.How bulldozers tore down the Supreme Court’s orders in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri.J&K: CBI files two corruption cases after ex-governor Satya Pal Malik’s bribery allegations.‘That doesn’t look like you’: New Yorker reacts to PM Narendra Modi’s photo on vaccine certificate.
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