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By Jaspreet Singh
Kirpal Singh is driving the gradual teach to Kashmir. With India passing by means of his window, he displays on his vacation spot, that's additionally his prior: an army camp to which he has now not again for fourteen years. Kirpal, referred to as Kip, is shy and never but twenty whilst he arrives for the 1st time at basic Kumar's camp, nestled within the shadow of the Siachen Glacier. At twenty thousand toes, the glacier makes a forbidding battlefield; its crevasses claimed the physique of Kip's father. Kip turns into an apprentice below the camp's chef, Kishen, a fiery mentor who courses him towards the heady spheres of meals and ladies. during this position of contradictions, erratic violence, and severe temperatures, Kip learns to arrange neighborhood dishes and food from all over the world. whilst months move, Kip, a Sikh, feels safe in his allegiance to India, firmly at the correct aspect of this interminable clash. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani "terrorist" with lengthy, flowing hair is swept up at the banks of the river and alterations every little thing. Mesmeric, mournful, and extremely lyrical, Chef is a courageous and compassionate debut approximately wish, love, and reminiscence set opposed to the devastatingly attractive, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.
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Must be placed at a serious disadvantage in competing with the alternative route now offered from the Eastward without a break as far as Loodiana[Ludhiana]. . , from Lahore to Peshawar, and from Mooltan [Multan] to Kotri. 117 In order to efficiently extract resources through trade in the Punjab, especially on the Indus route, the state took up the construction of the IVR, which was an extension of the earlier built trunk line connecting Amritsar and Multan.
Viz the Railroad and the Steamers may be said with truth to be the crying wants of the Punjab in the department of Public works. . [T]he commerce and produce of these territories will be turned to their due course viz. The Indus and its feeders and to their natural outlet viz. the Port of Kurrachee [Karachi]. . The Chief Commissioner while deprecating any general extension of the Public works Department in the Punjab for the present would yet beg most earnestly to press these cardinal objects on the attention of the Government.
1 it can be seen that the capital invested in the railways as a percentage of the total capital invested in the public works in the Punjab increased by about 15 times over 25 years. This amounted to an increase of about 56 percent between 1858 and 1884. 4 percent between 1859–60 and 1883–84. 9 Source: Punjab Administrative Report for the years 1858–85. R a i lway s a n d D e v e l o p m e n t i n C o l o n i a l I n d i a 35 The chief reason why the British increasingly invested so highly in railways in the Punjab can be seen in the following extract from a letter from the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab to the Department of Public Works, Government of India: Indeed these two .